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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-09

While it is understandable that complementarians struggle to sit under a leadership which includes women, this should remain something that each church decides since either interpretation is based on scripture. Adding a requirement for all co-opera...

While it is understandable that complementarians struggle to sit under a leadership which includes women, this should remain something that each church decides since either interpretation is based on

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Your interpretation neglects the context, the purpose

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Your interpretation neglects the context, the purpose of Paul’s letter, his audience, his very specific grammar and words used and so you cannot in any way say that your int

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-27

@TrueChristian00 @DrFrankTurek Thanks for clarifying. Wouldn’t you agree that in

@TrueChristian00 @DrFrankTurek Thanks for clarifying. Wouldn’t you agree that in practice, the Watchtower organization (through its Governing Body) provides the only accepted interpretation of Scriptu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@StevenG57428175 Not "All scripture and the magisterium..." Not "All scripture a

@StevenG57428175 Not "All scripture and the magisterium..." Not "All scripture and forthcoming tradition..." Not "All scripture but only with the interpretation of the RCC church..."

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ All my interpretations are coming directly from the text of scripture, in its original context and considering the author's stated purpose, audience and even treating the grammar in every detail as inspired. Your ad ho...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ All my interpretations are coming directly from the text of scripture, in its original context and considering the author's stated purpose, audience and even treating th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Why is this 'the most ridiculous interpretation'? I'm simply taking all the details in their context and putting them together. As for 1Co 14:34-35, you are neglecting to recall that Paul is r...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Why is this 'the most ridiculous interpretation'? I'm simply taking all the details in their context and putting them together. As for 1Co 14:

1Co 14:34-35 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 When I interpret scripture, I take the context, the author and audience, the purpose and all details in the text and references into consideration. If I find an interpretation that makes better sense of everything than others have in ...

@JonByers186054 When I interpret scripture, I take the context, the author and audience, the purpose and all details in the text and references into consideration. If I find an interpretation that mak

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 I'm saying you are claiming God forbids something I don't see scripture forbidding. I'm asking if scripture agrees with you. How else can I challenge someone's take of scripture? So now I'm not allowed to ask if someone has a correct...

@JonByers186054 I'm saying you are claiming God forbids something I don't see scripture forbidding. I'm asking if scripture agrees with you. How else can I challenge someone's take of scripture? So n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@AMalteseSailor No, you cannot make up sin. The Bible is clear when it comes to sin. Because if someone sins unrepentantly they are not in the kingdom of God. What you call “subverting God’s Word” is actually just careful interpretation and rightly d...

@AMalteseSailor No, you cannot make up sin. The Bible is clear when it comes to sin. Because if someone sins unrepentantly they are not in the kingdom of God. What you call “subverting God’s Word” is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua Is it disobeying God if you twist His words to mea

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua Is it disobeying God if you twist His words to mean something He didn’t intend and then force that interpretation on others? 🤔 There isn’t even an office of pastor (poim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situatio

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situation, Paul doesn't make that explicit. I agree with Winger's critique of this point and I don't bring Artemis into my inter

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-27

@sola_chad Well, they are certainly not following your faulty interpretation. Ju

@sola_chad Well, they are certainly not following your faulty interpretation. Just like when 7th Day Adventist’s say I’m not a believer because I don’t gather for church on Saturday and observe a spec

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-04

@evaanderberg @Grump_Old_Man @MikeWingerii Yes, there are those who see parts of

@evaanderberg @Grump_Old_Man @MikeWingerii Yes, there are those who see parts of the Bible as in error. Critical theory is another issue but I’m referring to those who agree with your interpretation o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-03

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Not necessarily. If they ask me and provide reasons

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Not necessarily. If they ask me and provide reasons I may choose to. If they are telling me to obey scripture and they are not mistaken in their interpretation, then of cou

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi No, it’s not a pernicious fallacy. You said “there’s absolutely no remotely legitimate way” when there *is* a legitimate way since you have “she will be saved” all the way back to “a woman” in 2:12⎯ it seems...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi No, it’s not a pernicious fallacy. You said “there’s absolutely no remotely legitimate way” when there *is* a legitimate way since you have “she will be save

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi It's not the only straightforward way to read the text because your interpretation doesn't make sense of all the details⎯both semantically and contextually. Yes, and thanks for admitting that you are not aw...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi It's not the only straightforward way to read the text because your interpretation doesn't make sense of all the details⎯both semantically and contextually.

in 2:14 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are lying by saying that "Paul never so much as hints at" since he states "certain people teaching strange doctrines" in 1Ti 1:3. That's at least a hint. And this is not a translation issue⎯it's an inte...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are lying by saying that "Paul never so much as hints at" since he states "certain people teaching strange doctrines" in 1Ti 1:3. That's at least a hint.

1Ti 1:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Well, I agree with that statement. Ho

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Well, I agree with that statement. How is it a “fact” that Paul’s switching from pl to sg and back is stylistic? Why do you presume your interpretation that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Now that we are confirming we are back on earth where people study Greek and English syntax and can read in context as authors use syntax to communicate what they want, I believe that the interpretation that...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Now that we are confirming we are back on earth where people study Greek and English syntax and can read in context as authors use syntax to communicate what

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@Ryan_Adair_A Yes, I agree this is referring to the seed of the woman, or the messiah. The advantage to the interpretation I shared with you is that it aligns with the purpose of the letter⎯to stop teaching of strange doctrines, and makes sense of w...

@Ryan_Adair_A Yes, I agree this is referring to the seed of the woman, or the messiah. The advantage to the interpretation I shared with you is that it aligns with the purpose of the letter⎯to stop t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-18

@ShamarYall @rightresponsem Except Joel is most certainly wrong on this, albeit he is consistent in his view. And yes, 1Ti 2:15 is there and yes, we have to explain it. Yet remaining single is what Paul advocates for in 1Co 7, so Joel's interpretatio...

@ShamarYall @rightresponsem Except Joel is most certainly wrong on this, albeit he is consistent in his view. And yes, 1Ti 2:15 is there and yes, we have to explain it. Yet remaining single is what Pa

1Ti 2:15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@Ruff681368 @CapturingChrist Just because people are not well trained to interpr

@Ruff681368 @CapturingChrist Just because people are not well trained to interpret scripture doesn’t mean that the Roman Catholic Church is any better. Everyone needs to test their interpretation with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-05

@Keith83361 @Tazorius @smashbaals I don’t follow the culture. I don’t care what

@Keith83361 @Tazorius @smashbaals I don’t follow the culture. I don’t care what they say as they have no bearing on the interpretation of the Bible. Our culture is a mess. But what you are proposing w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, men penned scripture (though we don’t know for sure that women were not involved—ie. who wrote Hebrews, Ruth, Esther?), but the following passages from 1Peter are clear that scripture is not men making things up or propo...

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, men penned scripture (though we don’t know for sure that women were not involved—ie. who wrote Hebrews, Ruth, Esther?), but the following passages from 1Peter are clear t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m agreeing with what she wrote as if it

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m agreeing with what she wrote as if it came from me, a male. I have the exegesis to back it up and thoroughly defend it. BTW, I’m misinterpreting something yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy You are deflecting. You need to take responsibility for your interpretation and defend it. I’ve read the scripture and studied it carefully on this issue and a right interpretation of scripture is not on your sid...

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy You are deflecting. You need to take responsibility for your interpretation and defend it. I’ve read the scripture and studied it carefully on this issue and a ri

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were not speaking in foreign tongues without interpretati...

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@MLbelch @smashbaals You have no authority⎯none at all. It is all in the Word. You can't tell me to do anything that isn't clearly in the Word. You also don't have the authoritative interpretation of the scripture. Your job is to serve by convincing ...

@MLbelch @smashbaals You have no authority⎯none at all. It is all in the Word. You can't tell me to do anything that isn't clearly in the Word. You also don't have the authoritative interpretation of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-17

@Pauldman414 @Eric_Conn What purposeful misinterpretation? Are you confessing wh

@Pauldman414 @Eric_Conn What purposeful misinterpretation? Are you confessing what you are doing?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-09

@GregCha67942091 @sparkobuzzer @Ashleyhays2089 How did JESUS use scripture and w

@GregCha67942091 @sparkobuzzer @Ashleyhays2089 How did JESUS use scripture and what interpretation did He put on it? Why did He stop in the middle of a verse and say that it was fulfilled without read

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-02

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii The Bible is self-correcting. It's no

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii The Bible is self-correcting. It's not "majority rules" or interpretation only by popes and bishops who have frequently erred. The text read in context will

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-19

@MikeWingerii Also, if the only way to access the interpretation is some esoteric literature accessible only to a PhD professor, you should also be wary. Scripture was inspired for our benefit and therefore meant to be understood by all, though not w...

@MikeWingerii Also, if the only way to access the interpretation is some esoteric literature accessible only to a PhD professor, you should also be wary. Scripture was inspired for our benefit and the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-19

@MikeWingerii If there is any one detail that seems out of place or a force fit,

@MikeWingerii If there is any one detail that seems out of place or a force fit, then you should at minimum be more tentative on your interpretation. If the interpretation is a teaching that only occ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-08

@x9ishere @greg_hahn Why are we reading puritans when we should be reading scrip

@x9ishere @greg_hahn Why are we reading puritans when we should be reading scripture to understand God’s intent? Did God not make Himself abundantly clear or must He outsource interpretation of His w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-03

@itbemeAllie @douglaswils I’m pretty sure you didn’t read that long thread in 3 mins. I’m not interesting in “keep sinning… it seems to be working…God is pleased.” I believe that my interpretation makes sense of the context and grammar—all the deta...

@itbemeAllie @douglaswils I’m pretty sure you didn’t read that long thread in 3 mins. I’m not interesting in “keep sinning… it seems to be working…God is pleased.” I believe that my interpretation m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-15

@Methodios007 In as much as they claim to have the correct interpretation of scripture, that's easy: I can read it and check it for myself. Scripture doesn't need a priest or bishop to tell me what it means unless I have have no knowledge of it. You ...

@Methodios007 In as much as they claim to have the correct interpretation of scripture, that's easy: I can read it and check it for myself. Scripture doesn't need a priest or bishop to tell me what it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@peace_got @Protestia That was my point: you can either be in rebellion to what you believe the text says, or like me, actually following what the text teaches as I have shown it does not forbid female elders. You don’t have to agree with my interpr...

@peace_got @Protestia That was my point: you can either be in rebellion to what you believe the text says, or like me, actually following what the text teaches as I have shown it does not forbid femal

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@TimGallantTN @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Imagination? Paul’s explicit purpose in writing to Timothy is to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” not to stop anyone from teaching true doctrine. I am explicitly using Paul’s pur...

@TimGallantTN @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Imagination? Paul’s explicit purpose in writing to Timothy is to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” not to stop anyone from teachin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@Northof50290567 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning That doesn’t mean

@Northof50290567 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning That doesn’t mean that James still doesn’t choose to interpret the text differently. I’m just showing that my interpretation is consistent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@RhandzuM6 @ada3z3x Every reading of a text is an interpretation! This fundament

@RhandzuM6 @ada3z3x Every reading of a text is an interpretation! This fundamental principle is recognized in hermeneutics. No one approaches a text without some form of interpretation, influenced by

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-22

@MikeWingerii Please let me know what church is obeying the following scriptures—I’d like to go there: "What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an i...

@MikeWingerii Please let me know what church is obeying the following scriptures—I’d like to go there: "What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-22

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’m what do you mean “pretty much every use of the verb”? Yes, I get my interpretation from how Paul uses the word in context. Somehow you get the meaning that Paul is stopping people from teaching true doctrine. I don...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’m what do you mean “pretty much every use of the verb”? Yes, I get my interpretation from how Paul uses the word in context. Somehow you get the meaning that Paul is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-18

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yes, Winger says very clearly that context is king and believes he is examining Paul's context. I really don't recall him drawing much on chapter 1 in his interpretation of chapter 2, so I challenge him on his examinatio...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yes, Winger says very clearly that context is king and believes he is examining Paul's context. I really don't recall him drawing much on chapter 1 in his interpretation

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-06

@garlicmofongo That’s a pretty good take on this. I don’t agree with this interp

@garlicmofongo That’s a pretty good take on this. I don’t agree with this interpretation of Genesis, but given where he starts, I think he did well.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-06

Patriarchalist @ZacharyGarris in “Masculine Christianity” refutes @MikeWingerii on his judging prophecy interpretation of 1Co 14:34-35. The reasons Garris gives are some good reasons to reject Winger’s interpretation. I take the quotation refutation ...

Patriarchalist @ZacharyGarris in “Masculine Christianity” refutes @MikeWingerii on his judging prophecy interpretation of 1Co 14:34-35. The reasons Garris gives are some good reasons to reject Winger’

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Your local church shouldn’t

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Your local church shouldn’t have their own “private” or subjective interpretation either

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@avyargo @Rick07200430 @LoblollyPine73 @Eric_Conn Again, it appears that 1Ti 2:11-12 and 1Co 14:34-35 were mistaken passages from quite early on. Just because the majority got these wrong doesn't mean they were inspired in their interpretation and ap...

@avyargo @Rick07200430 @LoblollyPine73 @Eric_Conn Again, it appears that 1Ti 2:11-12 and 1Co 14:34-35 were mistaken passages from quite early on. Just because the majority got these wrong doesn't mean

1Co 14:34-35 1Ti 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@avyargo @Eric_Conn Very strange as my interpretation of 1Ti 2:12 has a false teacher stopped not all women from teaching the truth. I took it literally and applied it based on the context to the specific situation that Paul left Timothy behind to de...

@avyargo @Eric_Conn Very strange as my interpretation of 1Ti 2:12 has a false teacher stopped not all women from teaching the truth. I took it literally and applied it based on the context to the spec

1Ti 2:12 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@humbledoulos The typical verses from scripture are not promoting the view of su

@humbledoulos The typical verses from scripture are not promoting the view of subduing women. Paul is dealing with false teachers in 1Tim; stopping all women from teaching is not in line with dealing

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-08

@susie40647926 Hi Susie! It’s a struggle because something doesn’t seem right. For example, a few verses before Paul writes that women must keep silent, he writes: "…When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a to...

@susie40647926 Hi Susie! It’s a struggle because something doesn’t seem right. For example, a few verses before Paul writes that women must keep silent, he writes: "…When you assemble, each one has a

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