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My view differs from claim 4—I believe Paul wants this woman to stop teaching until she learns the truth. Her being silent is about her not teaching, which Winger would agree with. The difference is Winger sees it as a general rule, not a situation-s...

My view differs from claim 4—I believe Paul wants this woman to stop teaching until she learns the truth. Her being silent is about her not teaching, which Winger would agree with. The difference is W

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching or leading men in every context, but is instead dealing with a specific woman teaching heresy, a situation reminiscent

This claim that Winger is responding to sets a problematic precedent by separating Paul’s inspired words from the authority of Scripture. However, I believe it is possible to honour Paul's authority and inspiration while examining what exactly Paul ...

This claim that Winger is responding to sets a problematic precedent by separating Paul’s inspired words from the authority of Scripture. However, I believe it is possible to honour Paul's authority

Mike Winger rightly says that ἐπιτρέπω (“permit”) doesn’t inherently mean temporary or ongoing—it depends on context. I agree. But that’s exactly the issue: the context of 1Ti 2:12 shows this is not a universal law, but a situational application of ...

Mike Winger rightly says that ἐπιτρέπω (“permit”) doesn’t inherently mean temporary or ongoing—it depends on context. I agree. But that’s exactly the issue: the context of 1Ti 2:12 shows this is not

1Ti 2:12 debate

In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in betwe

In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Timothy, he

1Ti 2:12 debate

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And we only have Peter and John who self identify as ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There was never a female priest. Also, only those from one of the 12 tribes could be a priest, so not even David was a priest. But this is not the basis for elders as the priesthood is related to temples and there is no...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There was never a female priest. Also, only those from one of the 12 tribes could be a priest, so not even David was a priest. But this is not the basis for elders as th

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek If “must be the husband of one wife” and “keeping his children (plural) under control” is what is literally required then every elder has to be married only once and must have 2 or more believing children. Th...

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek If “must be the husband of one wife” and “keeping his children (plural) under control” is what is literally required then every elder has to be married only o

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon I’m citing my Bible software which shows me the source of the English translation. There is clearly and obviously no explicit pronoun here though it is inferred because of the male form of the words. But that doesn’t me...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon I’m citing my Bible software which shows me the source of the English translation. There is clearly and obviously no explicit pronoun here though it is inferred because

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be married and have 2 or more children and Paul was neith...

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be marr

1 Corinthians 11:3 general

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon 2. Athanasius 3. Basil 4. Theodore of Mopsuestia 5. Eusebius 6. John Chrysostom “The contemporary desire to find in 1 Corinthians 11:3 a basis for the subordination of the Son to the Father has ancient roots. In respon...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon 2. Athanasius 3. Basil 4. Theodore of Mopsuestia 5. Eusebius 6. John Chrysostom “The contemporary desire to find in 1 Corinthians 11:3 a basis for the subordination of

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer to either a man or a woman. Just as I can show tha...

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer

@path1_one @rightresponsem In the following, I explain Eph 5:22-33 in light of the reciprocity of subjection to one another in v21. I also show how Paul appeals to Philemon to treat Onesimus, his former slave, as Paul himself! Paul appeals rather tha...

@path1_one @rightresponsem In the following, I explain Eph 5:22-33 in light of the reciprocity of subjection to one another in v21. I also show how Paul appeals to Philemon to treat Onesimus, his form

Eph 5:22-33 general

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't disqualified). Implied pronouns are male but this is...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't di

@path1_one @rightresponsem The bottom umbrellas are unnecessary as the top one s

@path1_one @rightresponsem The bottom umbrellas are unnecessary as the top one stops all the rain. Eph 5:21 says submission one to another. It is mutual.

Eph 5:21 general

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have fi...

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from

Col 1:18 general

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Is the authority based on a popular vote? Sola Sc

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Is the authority based on a popular vote? Sola Scriptura, right?

@path1_one @rightresponsem Head literally means head😊. Whether it is being used

@path1_one @rightresponsem Head literally means head😊. Whether it is being used to mean authority depends on the context. https://t.co/oiaep5VdVu

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon You sound like you are presuming your conclusion. If Paul is using an idiom to describe character (which is the case for all the other things Paul lists), then this isn't about being married or male. Paul wasn't marrie...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon You sound like you are presuming your conclusion. If Paul is using an idiom to describe character (which is the case for all the other things Paul lists), then this isn'

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to re

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to refer to marital faithfulness (character) and not being married or one’s gender. See below for some scholars who support a

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If anyone aspires to oversight” - τις = “someone / a...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If

1Ti 3:1 general

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem I’m guessing. Both t

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem I’m guessing. Both the husband and wife may have been elders. Nothing specifies either way.

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does n

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does not allow that woman in Ephesus to teach heresy? Her husband, likely an elder, was doing and saying nothing—remarkably ju

@Dankrightanon There's literally not a single passage that says "only men are to

@Dankrightanon There's literally not a single passage that says "only men are to be pastors." You are making things up.

@kennethesee @smashbaals 35 mins a week with a general sermon is enough to learn

@kennethesee @smashbaals 35 mins a week with a general sermon is enough to learn Greek or how to use BDB or do deep study? Really?

@path1_one @rightresponsem Well, no, since we were made in the image of God and

@path1_one @rightresponsem Well, no, since we were made in the image of God and not animals. Plus animals were cursed. Further, the Greek for hierarchy does not occur either in the LXX or the New Tes

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-28

@smashbaals I thought seminary taught how to exposit the text. Wouldn’t every be

@smashbaals I thought seminary taught how to exposit the text. Wouldn’t every believer benefit from this? Are there not men who go to seminary who don’t plan to be pastors?

@graysonfxx38325 @rightresponsem Such generic statements like that suggests women are like animals that need to be tamed and subdued is precisely why I wrote my response to Joel Webbon. Many men also have born bad fruit. Maybe that tells us that the...

@graysonfxx38325 @rightresponsem Such generic statements like that suggests women are like animals that need to be tamed and subdued is precisely why I wrote my response to Joel Webbon. Many men also

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historical creed or confession unifying the church says th...

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historic

Gen 1:28 debate

@JamesGi27467089 Hm. Women can only serve in subservient roles under male leadership, so what I heard them saying was how happy and blessed they were to see women contribute and serve and even how their mother’s instructed them as children—though suc...

@JamesGi27467089 Hm. Women can only serve in subservient roles under male leadership, so what I heard them saying was how happy and blessed they were to see women contribute and serve and even how the

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others including men and provide pastoral counseling, and l...

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others in

@Keith83361 @sola_chad The rainbow was God’s sign first. And no, I have never at

@Keith83361 @sola_chad The rainbow was God’s sign first. And no, I have never attended a pro same a 3x church.

@Dankrightanon Nowhere does scripture ever say that Deborah was made judge as a judgment on Israel. And that’s not how the pattern of the judges worked. God turned Israel over to their enemies because of their sin and then when He had compassion on t...

@Dankrightanon Nowhere does scripture ever say that Deborah was made judge as a judgment on Israel. And that’s not how the pattern of the judges worked. God turned Israel over to their enemies because

@Dankrightanon First, there is no ‘command’ that only men be pastors (poimen).

@Dankrightanon First, there is no ‘command’ that only men be pastors (poimen). Second, you are assuming head means the boss of, which is not how scripture uses the term.

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@HeGTiSunesis I knew about the Hebrew refers to the heads of each of the tribes but didn’t connect it with the census in the way you have. Very interesting. Ex 30:12: "When you take the sum (רֹאשׁ, rosh) of the people of Israel..." The LXX translat...

@HeGTiSunesis I knew about the Hebrew refers to the heads of each of the tribes but didn’t connect it with the census in the way you have. Very interesting. Ex 30:12: "When you take the sum (רֹאשׁ, r

Ex 30:12 debate

@TheAwokeSlayer My wife is not my pastor. Does Mike debate anyone? My mind is

@TheAwokeSlayer My wife is not my pastor. Does Mike debate anyone? My mind is doing ok.

@TheAwokeSlayer @indigopumpkin @rightresponsem I believe in the authority of the Bible. But no apostle has any authority to command what scripture doesn’t command. Paul didn’t use his authority but appealed. Can’t any believer also appeal? And if wha...

@TheAwokeSlayer @indigopumpkin @rightresponsem I believe in the authority of the Bible. But no apostle has any authority to command what scripture doesn’t command. Paul didn’t use his authority but ap

RT @CherylSchatz: Who are the 24 elders and why are they in Heaven before the fi

RT @CherylSchatz: Who are the 24 elders and why are they in Heaven before the first seal is opened?

Eph 5:21 Mk 10:42-45 general

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If you want Biblical hierarchy, then you are to

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If you want Biblical hierarchy, then you are to put yourself under others not over them. Mutual submission is the teaching of Jesus and Paul (Mk 10:42-45; Eph 5:21). ht

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If the English translation inserts ideas not in the original words then “following the plain English” is not being faithful to God’s intent. The world God created had no hierarchy until Adam decided to rule his wife. ...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If the English translation inserts ideas not in the original words then “following the plain English” is not being faithful to God’s intent. The world God created had

Ge 1:28 general

You don’t want to see…but God reveals the Prov 31 wife working in the public sph

You don’t want to see…but God reveals the Prov 31 wife working in the public sphere—buying fields, planting vineyards, trading goods, managing workers, and speaking wisdom with kindness. Nowhere in s

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Where does scripture say “you will desire [to co

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Where does scripture say “you will desire [to control] your husband”? Where is “to control” in the Hebrew? There was no hierarchy in God’s design in Genesis 1:28.

Genesis 1:28 question

@jdenehar @ostrachan How does nature teach you that there is a difference betwee

@jdenehar @ostrachan How does nature teach you that there is a difference between a male and female with regard to head hair? If uncut, they both grow long, right?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-23

Pope Francis made some comments before he died on Monday. He calls everyone children of God, doesn’t seem concerned with the imminent return of Christ and advocates for human induced peace when the Bible says that wars and rumours of wars continue un...

Pope Francis made some comments before he died on Monday. He calls everyone children of God, doesn’t seem concerned with the imminent return of Christ and advocates for human induced peace when the Bi

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-10

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Sorry…didn’t see this till now. No, I believe both s

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Sorry…didn’t see this till now. No, I believe both spellings refer to the same Greek word. The former is the modern transliteration and the latter the older.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-07

@Brandon27614871 @haymes_joshua @dalepartridge I will refute him on head coverin

@Brandon27614871 @haymes_joshua @dalepartridge I will refute him on head coverings which has nothing to do with my dispensational perspective. It doesn’t even directly relate to my egalitarian views,

1Co 11:1-16 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-07

@Daniel2Pilgrim @autocorrect2_0 So pastor and overseer are the same thing to you

@Daniel2Pilgrim @autocorrect2_0 So pastor and overseer are the same thing to you?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-07

@autocorrect2_0 Where does the Bible say that women shouldn’t pastor a church? N

@autocorrect2_0 Where does the Bible say that women shouldn’t pastor a church? No one—not even a man—is explicitly referred to as a pastor or shepherd (poimen) except Jesus. Head doesn’t mean authori

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-05

@BigDfromWV9 @smashbaals Are you aware that the Septuagint is the Greek translat

@BigDfromWV9 @smashbaals Are you aware that the Septuagint is the Greek translation from the Hebrew Scriptures done mid 2nd century BC by ~70 Jewish translators/scholars? Long before the Vatican exis