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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-10

@american_d1ce @smashbaals I’m not teaching feminism, I’m teaching equality. I’m

@american_d1ce @smashbaals I’m not teaching feminism, I’m teaching equality. I’m not teaching having no children—we have 3 of our own and my wife works and we didn’t use childcare. Also, is Philippia

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-09

@Bat_Scholar_ @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Seriously? Are you trying to construct a

@Bat_Scholar_ @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Seriously? Are you trying to construct a straw man? Children in general are not qualified to lead, though Timothy was young and Paul had to instruct him to not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definit

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definite noun, not a verb. Plus it's referring to salvation, and no woman is saved by bearing children as some cannot bear chil

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Like I said earlier, I don’t agree with everything Andy says and does. His views on parents obeying children changing gender or affirming gays do not follow from what I’m sharing from scripture. You are conflating these...

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Like I said earlier, I don’t agree with everything Andy says and does. His views on parents obeying children changing gender or affirming gays do not follow from what I’m

@american_d1ce @smashbaals I’m not teaching feminism, I’m teaching equality. I’m

@Bat_Scholar_ @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Seriously? Are you trying to construct a

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definit

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Like I said earlier, I don’t agree with everything Andy says and does. His views on parents obeying children changing gender or affirming gays do not follow from what I’m sharing from scripture. You are conflating these...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad An elder (pastor) doesn’t need to be married, but if so, then must be monogamous. If not, must advocate for monogamy. An elder doesn’t have to have children, but if so, the child/children should be obedient and believers. Th...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Ah, you are going to try to claim that he couldn't be a 'highly respected' pharisee without being married, right? So is the requirement in 1Ti 3:2 "Must have been married at some point in time"? Paul says he is single and ne...

Unless of course, patriarchy isn’t Biblical Christianity. If you want to follow Christ, then you won’t look for power and control, but “be subject to one another in the fear of Christ” (Eph 5:21). I’m egalitarian and all 3 of my children came to Ch...

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 What happens to women who don't bear children? Can the

@Paula_333 Can women teach male children? At what age can they no longer teach t

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Peter was married. Paul wasn’t. But Paul wishes that all people were like him being able to focus their entire lives on serving Christ. However, you can obviously still serve Christ even being married an...

@dalepartridge Would your advice work to the apostle Paul? Does it align with hi

@harmon00000 “so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands,

No pastor, elder, overseer, apostle, deacon, prophet, or father is ever called head (kephalē) in the NT. If head simply means authority or boss, why is kephalē never used for any leader in the church? Why is a father never called the kephalē of hi...

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii Husband of one wife doesn’t requir

@JamesPelton18 @The_Sig_ @TinaFoughty Perhaps there is some application in the context of a church in that you do not support your adult children who are living in unrepentant sin. A person who refuses to judge their children simply b/c they are thei...

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are believing (so they have to mature sufficiently to be ab...

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an el

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen and obey? Why can women teach other women and ch...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ I've been married in an egalitarian marriage for nearly 29 years with 3 grown children that are all following the Lord. If my views destroy society, how do you explain my own experience? Maybe society is reacting to th...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ The prophecy portion was that Eve would desire her husband. There are things God said would change. Increasing her rate of conception is not a judgment. That she would toil because of how many ...

@JoeAdrian256 And notice that 1Ti 3 speaks of children (plural) and infers that they are believing. Does that mean you are not qualified to be an elder until you have at least two children old enough to choose to believe for themselves? Paul also did...

@JoeAdrian256 Therefore, whether a person is single, married, with children, or with no children, is female or male is not part of the requirements or else Paul himself would be excluded, and likely Timothy, not to mention Paul advocates for everyone...

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii The restrictions are related to character and ability (and teaching truth rather than heresy). The qualifications are not based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, male or female, age, size, whether or not o...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There’s a difference between using generic pronouns like ‘tis’ in 1Ti 3:1 and male forms of words and explicitly calling out “must be a man” or “must not be a woman.” Paul clearly isn’t intending to restrict based on wh...

@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...

@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...

@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...

@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...

Any message of peace that leaves out the return of Christ is not the biblical go

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...

@dalepartridge I agree with you. And so women who are leaders and teachers and p

@dianahenryart If she was sinless, then why did she need a saviour? “And my spir

Joel says it is wicked to say he teaches that women must bear children or they are not saved. What he meant was that if you are a woman who desires to be single and not be a mother, with no signs of repentance, you are assuredly reprobate. Sounds p...

@Autumn_Armyworm @dougponder @BenMandrell @markedpodcast The scripture governs c

@rightresponsem @TinaFoughty What? The evidence of salvation is having children

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning The narrow way is not by refusing to teach truth to people unless they are females or children under the age of 18. Whether Laura agrees with you or me doesn’t matter as this is second...

@JacksonTarwater @EstablishingMan @Eric_Conn How are you a husband but not marri

@tinytomahawk @Eric_Conn That isn’t “must be a man” or “must not be a woman”—if it means male then by the same argument it must mean must be married and v4 must mean 2 or more children who are all old enough to believe. Paul himself wouldn’t be quali...

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Indeed! No overseer should have “wives” either. Oh, and Paul was unmarried…so he who is making the requirements is disqualified. And also, elders must have at least 2 or more believing children, so all of you elders...

@onedayatatimeLB @ymmotrojam @smashbaals I think that some biblical instructions like this are less explicit to test our discernment. Take 1Ti 3:2—those who insist “an elder must be male” overlook that just a few verses later (1Ti 3:4-5), elders are...

@Shatterhan74807 @smashbaals Actually, I believe that is a common misreading of Paul’s intention. Because if he meant “must be male” by his phrasing, then he must also mean “must be married and have two or more children who believe” meaning that not ...

@autocorrect2_0 I agree with you. And pastoring or shepherding doesn’t have to be an official appointment. You shepherd your children, and you may be a spiritual influence over your small group and care for their souls. You also may do so online. Jus...

@RonaldTill13475 @KaeleyT @WayneShaff60221 What are you taking about? Saying that a husband is not the authority over his wife and that women can lead along with men in the church destroys their lives?? Our family believes this and we are married and...

@BornAgainMissy Further, I presume that women learn theology not only for themse

@danitreweek I struggle to understand how anyone is against anyone serving the n

@Eric_Conn Every cell in my body has XY chromosomes. I have a wife and 3 adult c

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals My wife is the first level of provision for my children. In fact, I am unable to provide for my infant child’s earliest needs. And try harming her child and see whether she doesn’t think twice to protect the child and ...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wow. I have to ask one more time then—if the command is to be fruitful (physically) and have children, then in your view, the apostle Paul’s encouragement that they all remain as he was—single—is a wish to violate a commandment of...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul actually says that he wished they were all as he was which would mean—if true—that no one in the church would be having children. He’s not overturning being fruitful and multiplying, but transforming it to building the church...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks To respond to Paul, Kaeley is referring to the ‘pressure’ as

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