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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-08

@th3muse A life goal might be to aim to be last. While Paul appears to be first

@th3muse A life goal might be to aim to be last. While Paul appears to be first because of his prominence in the New Testament, he is frequently rejected and explains how he and the other apostles are

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-08

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel @smashbaals No my grumpy friend. Paul was counter cult

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel @smashbaals No my grumpy friend. Paul was counter cultural. This passage is Paul’s personal instruction to Timothy whom he left behind to deal with the false teachers about h

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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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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-08

@Here4Now0829 @sssssss09775798 “One wife husband” is an idiom not a requirement for them to be married men. Paul wasn’t married and is most definitely an overseer, and Timothy doesn’t appear to be married either. “If a MAN desire…” is a bad translat...

@Here4Now0829 @sssssss09775798 “One wife husband” is an idiom not a requirement for them to be married men. Paul wasn’t married and is most definitely an overseer, and Timothy doesn’t appear to be mar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-08

@Chainsaw59598 All scripture is inspired, including 1Co 14:34-35. Like Paul does

@Chainsaw59598 All scripture is inspired, including 1Co 14:34-35. Like Paul does a number of times in 1Co starting from 7:1, he quotes from the letter from the Corinthians and refutes them. https://t.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-07

@jtdxn_ @gxp11 @MikeWingerii Or how about “thou shalt not legislate Christianity”? The apostles were politically neutral. Paul says simply to pray for those in authority so that we might be able to lead a tranquil life. "2:1 First of all, then, I ur...

@jtdxn_ @gxp11 @MikeWingerii Or how about “thou shalt not legislate Christianity”? The apostles were politically neutral. Paul says simply to pray for those in authority so that we might be able to le

@th3muse A life goal might be to aim to be last. While Paul appears to be first

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel @smashbaals No my grumpy friend. Paul was counter cult

@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...

@Here4Now0829 @sssssss09775798 “One wife husband” is an idiom not a requirement for them to be married men. Paul wasn’t married and is most definitely an overseer, and Timothy doesn’t appear to be married either. “If a MAN desire…” is a bad translat...

@Chainsaw59598 All scripture is inspired, including 1Co 14:34-35. Like Paul does

@jtdxn_ @gxp11 @MikeWingerii Or how about “thou shalt not legislate Christianity”? The apostles were politically neutral. Paul says simply to pray for those in authority so that we might be able to lead a tranquil life. "2:1 First of all, then, I ur...

@Grump_Old_Man @BahBahBased @MikeWingerii Yes but it’s referring to a specific wife who needs first to learn the truth before she teaches. Paul cannot meet his own qualifications. You think that’s the correct interpretation? “If a man” is “if anyon...

@Grump_Old_Man @BahBahBased @MikeWingerii What translation is that? Verse 11 isn’t using the article “the woman.” At any rate, why doesn’t Paul continue using the plural as in v9-10? How does stopping women from teaching deal with the false teaching ...

@BahBahBased @zie95776 @MikeWingerii Paul used the creation account as prototypi

@zie95776 @BahBahBased @MikeWingerii Word not work (typo). Authentein is the wor

@BahBahBased @zie95776 @MikeWingerii Paul didn’t write that American women were more easily deceived. He wrote that because of the time sequence between the first man and the first woman Adam wasn’t deceived but Eve was. Why? Because Adam witnessed G...

@BahBahBased @zie95776 @MikeWingerii Because Paul is identifying a specific wife and husband which he is not naming because the wife is deceived and hasn’t yet been corrected. He is showing mercy just like how Paul was shown mercy. You only name the ...

@zie95776 @BahBahBased @MikeWingerii Why did Paul write ‘a woman’ instead of ‘women’ like in vs9-10? Why did Paul use authentein, a verb form that is only found once in the Bible and 8 times in antiquity if he meant normal authority? Paul notes tha...

@SpecterAndBride @ymmotrojam @squidgy201 You are suggesting it is effeminate for

@SpecterAndBride Was John the Baptist effeminate for not ever cutting his hair?

@MidlifeMisfit @StephenStaedtl1 @baste_goblin @DelaKram75 Paul states that he me

@MythosMayhem @CherylSchatz @_KyleBerry Do you deny Jesus was literally crucifie

@MythosMayhem @CherylSchatz @_KyleBerry Except when Paul said this speaking as a living man the flesh literally no one is confused about what he meant. When Jesus was literally crucified in the flesh and then literally bodily resurrected from the de...

@squidgy201 @SpecterAndBride I go into a bit more detail on how that verse is be

@3GNRTX But you are taking order to mean hierarchy when Paul simply was referrin

@3GNRTX The word used in 1Ti 2:11-12 translated “a woman” can also be translated

@3GNRTX In 1Ti 2:14, Paul says “the woman” instead of Eve—while Eve as her prototype is closely connected with this particular wife, only this Ephesian woman could be saved in the future tense if both her and her husband continue in the true faith. E...

@3GNRTX Paul only refers to the time sequence of creation in relation to deception. Adam was created first and saw God creating some animals and the garden plants and trees so he couldn’t be deceived to think that the fruit of a tree made from the sa...

@3GNRTX Rather, it was Paul dealing with a specific wife who was in need of salv

@3GNRTX Rather, this is in the context of Paul leaving Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teachers, deal with the consequences of the false teaching and setup the church to better manage false teaching. That statement wasn’t Paul instructing Timothy t...

@PaulKM32 @ReformedCaio With Paul is explicit (1Co 7), with Timothy it is an inference. We know he is young (1Ti 4:12) and we have no instruction concerning any family or wife or any indication he was married. Paul is both an apostle and an overseer...

@StephenStaedtl1 @baste_goblin @DelaKram75 Excellent! Now we are back to scripture. Paul links Adam and Eve with the time sequence of creation and deception. Since Adam was created first and God created some animals and plants and trees in front of ...

@Dayagent47 One thing to add here is that I think there are in fact whole church

@MegaChurchMouse But if everytime someone corrects you with effective solid Biblical refutations, you treat it as “dissensions and stumblings” then how would you learn if you were wrong? Wouldn’t Paul be talking about something else? What behaviour...

@slow_down_Jess @DelaKram75 Why does Paul apply Eve’s deception to the whole chu

@BeyondZenny @Brian_Sauve Everyone wants to change Paul’s inspired grammar to th

@Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @j_robert_kirk @Brian_Sauve Ok, why was Paul i

@pauldirks What?! Safe snorting is not to snort.

@Reformed_Zoomer @j_robert_kirk @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Also, protect her from what? From deception? You can only do that when you are not deceived yourself. Deception is not a gendered issue; many men can be deceived. Paul even says so: "But...

@Reformed_Zoomer @j_robert_kirk @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve You read scripture in snippets like there is zero context. Do you really think women are not to love sacrificially? REALLY?! Why do you suppose Paul gives what appears to be a one sided c...

@j_robert_kirk @MolderAnna26649 @Reformed_Zoomer @Brian_Sauve That’s the “great mystery” that Paul speaks of in Eph 5:32. One flesh means equal. We don’t deserve this at all. But look at how we are treated. We are co-heirs with Christ and share His...

@j_robert_kirk @Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve 1Ti 2:12 is a statement made in the context of a personal letter to Timothy in which Paul’s main concern was stopping false teaching and how to handle blaspheming false teachers differentl...

@LogicSaysBurn @Cooper9DL Fundamentally it’s the context that determines meaning; the range of meaning or past usage merely informs how Paul might have been using the word. So regardless, you have to go to the text in context as the final arbiter as ...

@LogicSaysBurn @Cooper9DL I’m not sure that is relevant to Paul’s use of the ter

@Cooper9DL You are taking 1Ti 2:12 out of context and are treating “head” in the sense of authority or master over which is not the sense in which Paul was using the word kephale. Your comment about 1Ti 3:1-13 being directed at only men is likely due...

@coramdeo1 @kdclaunch You get my point? How? I am the one who is taking Paul’s purpose as written, and you are the one who is taking what is not explicit and making something more which is not stated and then taking the poor interpretation of many i...

@kdclaunch Paul has no concept of “gender roles” with respect to authority or hi

@TarienCole @VCITW Except that’s not my intention. I want to obey everything that God intends by the text. For example, do you intend to obey any of the following commands from Paul? How is it that you are not obeying a scriptural imperative?? "Whe...

@TarienCole @VCITW I don’t ignore this, just interpreting it in context. Paul do

@coramdeo1 @kdclaunch No one (including me) is arguing that the letters written to specific individuals were not intended to be read by the rest of us and treated as scripture. What I’m saying is that we must take Paul’s meaning in the context that ...

@LogicSaysBurn Paul said it had to do with the time sequence order of creation w

@StevenMKestner @kdclaunch No, absolutely not. I’m pointing out this detail as i

@coramdeo1 “You” is second person singular, not plural. Paul’s instruction is sp

@coramdeo1 I am following Paul’s reasoning: the order of creation has something

@coramdeo1 @kdclaunch Paul clarifies again, that he writes to Timothy and uses second person singular “you” to explain it is to show him how he should act in the church: "I am writing these things **to you,** hoping to come to you before long; but ...

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@coramdeo1 @kdclaunch Paul clarifies again, that he writes to Timothy and uses second person singular “you” to explain it is to show him how he should act in the church: "I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long; but ...