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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-27

@Emma506131772 @Vitus_oss @AskPerplexity The work of ministry is intended for all believers: “And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry...

@Emma506131772 @Vitus_oss @AskPerplexity The work of ministry is intended for all believers: “And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers, for th

Eph 4:11-12 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-15

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Suggesting a woman cannot teach truth to men or pastor is not heresy. Heresy is stuff JWs and LDS teach—stuff related to primary matters of the faith, the nature of God, the deity of Jesus...

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Suggesting a woman cannot teach truth to men or pastor is not heresy. Heresy is stuff JWs and LDS teach—stuff related to primary matters o

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-15

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Sorry, where does

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Sorry, where does scripture say women cannot be elders? https://t.co/VI2qbiI67E

@Be_EquallyYoked @Truth_matters20 Teaching and pastoring and correcting is not a

@Be_EquallyYoked @Truth_matters20 Teaching and pastoring and correcting is not a war in that a person has to hold a heavy sword and wear heavy armour. Who are you to limit who the Holy Spirit selects

@Truth_matters20 @ryanswalters73 What boom? How many individuals are explicitly

@Truth_matters20 @ryanswalters73 What boom? How many individuals are explicitly called pastor in the NT?

@ryanswalters73 @Truth_matters20 Please provide a list of all the males in scrip

@ryanswalters73 @Truth_matters20 Please provide a list of all the males in scripture who are explicitly called pastor.

@PatrickSemani @DLepanto9801 @PrayTheRosary12 It does happen in Protestant churc

@PatrickSemani @DLepanto9801 @PrayTheRosary12 It does happen in Protestant churches too. Try challenging the authority of the elders on something and you may find similar behaviour even though they cl

RT @abbythelibb_: My entire feed is right wing men, even pastors, trashing Allie

RT @abbythelibb_: My entire feed is right wing men, even pastors, trashing Allie Beth for saying porn is destructive. What a gut punch to G…

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearly, “an elder must not be a woman.” Rather you have...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearl

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge LOL…silence on women pastors? Good grief, @grok, how many individuals are called pastor in the New Testament? Surely you jest. Paul doesn’t ground his “I do not permit” in Adam’s precedence but in the fact that he ...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge LOL…silence on women pastors? Good grief, @grok, how many individuals are called pastor in the New Testament? Surely you jest. Paul doesn’t ground his “I do not per

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Head means source as Adam’s flesh and bone is the source material for Eve’s creation. Notice how in the NT no one is the head of anyone except the husband of the wife, so if head means the boss or authority over, th...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Head means source as Adam’s flesh and bone is the source material for Eve’s creation. Notice how in the NT no one is the head of anyone except the husband of the wif

@RustyGremlin @NickHenderson79 @UncutDomination @dalepartridge Head doesn’t mean

@RustyGremlin @NickHenderson79 @UncutDomination @dalepartridge Head doesn’t mean boss. Why is no apostle, prophet, elder or leader called the head of anyone except his wife? Not is he even called the

@stone_c45 @dalepartridge Phenomenal logic there… being a deacon is like working

@stone_c45 @dalepartridge Phenomenal logic there… being a deacon is like working on a high voltage line or welding underwater. So women should never do anything dangerous…like leading, serving as a de

@elderthorkell @schism What specifically in the theology is far better? God tells us that in heaven there is no marriage and Paul says our marriage vows are until death and not past that (Rom 7:1-2). So you just want to believe something else? Why ...

@elderthorkell @schism What specifically in the theology is far better? God tells us that in heaven there is no marriage and Paul says our marriage vows are until death and not past that (Rom 7:1-2).

Rom 7:1-2 question

@RustyGremlin @dalepartridge Hey, why are you importing your meaning for head in

@RustyGremlin @dalepartridge Hey, why are you importing your meaning for head into the Biblical text? Think about it. If head means boss, why is it only used of a husband to his wife? Why is no pastor

@J0nMormont @BlondeTemplar @dalepartridge 1Tim 3:12 doesn’t require a male just like it also doesn’t require a pastor is married and has multiple children able to and who believe (Paul himself was single and childless…unless you think Paul was disqua...

@J0nMormont @BlondeTemplar @dalepartridge 1Tim 3:12 doesn’t require a male just like it also doesn’t require a pastor is married and has multiple children able to and who believe (Paul himself was sin

1Tim 3:12 question

@elderthorkell @schism I hat are your other reasons to believe?

@elderthorkell @schism How do you know that the “testified to by other mean” is

@elderthorkell @schism How do you know that the “testified to by other mean” is true or not? As I said, I got an answer and it was that the BOM is false. I was meeting regularly with the missionaries

@elderthorkell @schism I was sincere. I have an open mind. How then do we know w

@elderthorkell @schism I was sincere. I have an open mind. How then do we know whether I heard wrong or you heard wrong?

@dalepartridge The Bible doesn’t forbid women from serving as: pastors, elders,

@dalepartridge The Bible doesn’t forbid women from serving as: pastors, elders, or deacons, police officers, soldiers, firemen, judges, or politicians.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-27

@jayrugman @BotanicalGalaxy I heard from a bishop that description of how one go

@jayrugman @BotanicalGalaxy I heard from a bishop that description of how one goes from their eternal intelligence to spirit children as reorganizing. I didn’t make that up.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-24

@clementinetown @Toneskeee I’ve now gone to 6 different churches from Pentecostal, Calvary Chapel, non denominational, Baptist, Reformed Church of America, and Mennonite Brethren. They’ve all had their ups and downs and had issues. None of them were...

@clementinetown @Toneskeee I’ve now gone to 6 different churches from Pentecostal, Calvary Chapel, non denominational, Baptist, Reformed Church of America, and Mennonite Brethren. They’ve all had the

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-24

@Dlionsfan55 @BishopJaxi I meant Jesus is not in that wafer.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@BishopJaxi …who is not in that wafer in the monstrance.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Head does not mean final authority. Notice how no pasto

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Head does not mean final authority. Notice how no pastor, apostle, elder, or prophet is called head of anything—only husbands. Why assume it means final authority?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Toneskeee @Sewakiryang Why do you think head means hierarchy? No leader, pastor

@Toneskeee @Sewakiryang Why do you think head means hierarchy? No leader, pastor, elder, apostle is ever called head—only husbands.

@electri29693332 @SayvilleDavid @smashbaals There is only one head, not two. Hea

@electri29693332 @SayvilleDavid @smashbaals There is only one head, not two. Head doesn’t mean leader else a pastor, apostle, elder or deacon would be called head but that isn’t the case. Only husband

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi None of that was taught by the Apostles and it is the

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi None of that was taught by the Apostles and it is the teaching of Jesus and the Apostles that is authoritative, not the so-called church fathers.

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi The early church certainly used the LXX, which contained both canonical and non-canonical Jewish writings, but using a text in worship or instruction didn’t automatically mean it was considered Scripture. Even Jewish commun...

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi The early church certainly used the LXX, which contained both canonical and non-canonical Jewish writings, but using a text in worship or instruction didn’t automatically me

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi Regional councils were influential, but not universally binding. Their authority extended only to their regions, not to the entire Church. The councils of Hippo and Carthage reflected the North African tradition, while the ...

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi Regional councils were influential, but not universally binding. Their authority extended only to their regions, not to the entire Church. The councils of Hippo and Carthage

@OlarJL @BishopJaxi No council ever promulgated a 66 book canon. The early church recognized the same 27 books of the NT we have today, but the OT canon was never dogmatically fixed until the Council of Trent in 1546, which added the deuterocanonical...

@OlarJL @BishopJaxi No council ever promulgated a 66 book canon. The early church recognized the same 27 books of the NT we have today, but the OT canon was never dogmatically fixed until the Council

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi Catholic means universal. Roman Catholic, the one that

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi Catholic means universal. Roman Catholic, the one that prays to dead saints, venerates them, uses relics, believes in pergatory, etc is not the universal church.