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@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is not negating his own teaching on covering because he is advocating for not covering and giving women the freedom to decide what to do. Paul says in verse 6 that "If a woman does ...

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is not negating his own teaching on covering because he is advocating for not covering and giving women the freedom to decide what t

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, I am following Paul’s flow of thought. Since we will judge angels then we ought to be able to judge trivial matters of this life, such as whether to cover or not cover our heads whe...

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, I am following Paul’s flow of thought. Since we will judge angels then we ought to be able to judge trivial matters of this life, s

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Sure, feel free t

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Sure, feel free to block or ignore me. But please do tell me how it is eisegesis to use Paul's own words in the same letter to interpret

@Manny_Clay1 @TarienCole If other is implied (it is not in the Greek) then it wo

@Manny_Clay1 @TarienCole If other is implied (it is not in the Greek) then it would mean that since Paul is saying there is no custom to cover one's head, then any custom to cover is not practiced. A

@lunarCelerity Hmm... in the NET they also add "a symbol of" and seem to have a very complementarian take on the passage. They state the following in regards to the reference to angels: "sn Paul does not explain this reference to the angels, and its...

@lunarCelerity Hmm... in the NET they also add "a symbol of" and seem to have a very complementarian take on the passage. They state the following in regards to the reference to angels: "sn Paul does

@JohnnyTani3 Ok, these are valid speculations. But Paul refers to angels in the

@JohnnyTani3 Ok, these are valid speculations. But Paul refers to angels in the same letter and I think it helps us to understand what he meant in 1Co 11:10. https://t.co/PKTXG8OmZW

1Co 11:10 debate

@SarahBatdorf In the sense you are referring to, angels would include people. Bu

@SarahBatdorf In the sense you are referring to, angels would include people. But Paul refers to angels in the same letter in a context that explains what he means in ch11. https://t.co/PKTXG8OmZW

@johngacinski Why go to Genesis 6 when Paul gives us a reference to the angels i

@johngacinski Why go to Genesis 6 when Paul gives us a reference to the angels in the same letter? https://t.co/PKTXG8OmZW

@NBidnz That's a very interesting take. Fortunately, Paul gives us a reference i

@NBidnz That's a very interesting take. Fortunately, Paul gives us a reference in the same letter so we aren't left guessing. https://t.co/PKTXG8OmZW

1Co 11:10 1Co 6:2-3 question

What does "because of the angels" mean in 1Co 11:10? Many people are confused by Paul's mention of this. The answer lies in what Paul says earlier in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you...

What does "because of the angels" mean in 1Co 11:10? Many people are confused by Paul's mention of this. The answer lies in what Paul says earlier in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the saints w

1Co 11:10 1Co 6:2-3 debate

@rofbethany 1Co 11:10 says that the woman should have authority on her own head because of the angels. Paul already spoke about what this has to do with in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged b...

@rofbethany 1Co 11:10 says that the woman should have authority on her own head because of the angels. Paul already spoke about what this has to do with in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the sai

@RachelleMerle Please explain how NATURE teaches you there is a difference between males and females when it comes to head hair. Then explain how it is disgraceful for John the Baptist to have long hair (a Nazarite). Even Paul himself took a Nazarit...

@RachelleMerle Please explain how NATURE teaches you there is a difference between males and females when it comes to head hair. Then explain how it is disgraceful for John the Baptist to have long h

@elijahtmadison @InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The wife has two glories: God and her husband. Notice that Paul doesn’t say that woman ought to cover or not cover. The concern Paul is addressing is that of a wife who has an unbelievin...

@elijahtmadison @InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The wife has two glories: God and her husband. Notice that Paul doesn’t say that woman ought to cover or not cover. The concern Paul is

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 I am of course referring to the churches Paul was speaking of in the first century, not the ones that came later. To deny that Paul advocated for the practice of not covering one’s head while praying or...

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 I am of course referring to the churches Paul was speaking of in the first century, not the ones that came later. To deny that Paul advocated for the pr

@LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The fact that she shames her head assumes she has one, meaning this is referring to married women only. But this shaming that Paul refers to is not the same kind of spiritual shame from the garden, but someth...

@LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The fact that she shames her head assumes she has one, meaning this is referring to married women only. But this shaming that Paul refers to is not the same k

@Brandon27614871 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, and many thought similar t

@Brandon27614871 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, and many thought similar to him. But Luther is not writing scripture and his suggestion women had to veil to show subjection to their husbands is

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is advocating for not coveri

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is advocating for not covering one's head during praying or prophesying. So no other practice means no practice of covering.

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Paul says that there is no such practice to cover heads in any of the churches: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor that hair is a woman’s glory, since hair is given as a substitute for coverings...

Paul says that there is no such practice to cover heads in any of the churches: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor that hair is a woman’s glory,

@SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul says that he has no such practice to cover heads in any of the churches: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor that hair is a woman’s glory, **since hair is giv...

@SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul says that he has no such practice to cover heads in any of the churches: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor

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@Luv_Is_Truth @DoulosDean68 This is a problem with how people interpret Paul as Paul’s behaviour doesn’t reflect male priority. "Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom give...

@Luv_Is_Truth @DoulosDean68 This is a problem with how people interpret Paul as Paul’s behaviour doesn’t reflect male priority. "Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-30

@HeGTiSunesis Paul’s identifying Eve as the one who was deceived had to do with the time creation order of Adam and Eve. Adam was created at a point in time where he was able to watch as God created other animals and plants/trees including the tree o...

@HeGTiSunesis Paul’s identifying Eve as the one who was deceived had to do with the time creation order of Adam and Eve. Adam was created at a point in time where he was able to watch as God created o

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-30

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Yes, that term together with gyne should be rendered as husband. But the phrase “one wife husband” does not mean husband, does it? Because if it did, Paul would be excluded from being an overseer despite clearly a...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Yes, that term together with gyne should be rendered as husband. But the phrase “one wife husband” does not mean husband, does it? Because if it did, Paul would be

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-29

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Is John the Baptist shamed because he was a nazarite from birth and therefore couldn’t cut his hair like Samson? Even Paul took a Nazarite vow and in numbers both men and women could take the vow. The vow involves...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Is John the Baptist shamed because he was a nazarite from birth and therefore couldn’t cut his hair like Samson? Even Paul took a Nazarite vow and in numbers both

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-29

@ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Why is Paul concerned with men havi

@ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Why is Paul concerned with men having authority over women for one hour a week? What purpose does that serve if for the rest of the week they are listening

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@RenOfMen @42Lives I suspect Paul wouldn’t be concerned about the statistics unless there was an increase in s3xual immorality. 1Co 7 is fairly clear that he wishes they would be like him (single), but if they are unable to control themselves, it is ...

@RenOfMen @42Lives I suspect Paul wouldn’t be concerned about the statistics unless there was an increase in s3xual immorality. 1Co 7 is fairly clear that he wishes they would be like him (single), bu

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Those passages only forbid if you read them in complete

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Those passages only forbid if you read them in complete isolation to the rest of Paul’s letter. You need to go learn some humility and stop teaching what you don’t understand

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie What? I cannot quote the Bible? I’m obeying exactly wh

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie What? I cannot quote the Bible? I’m obeying exactly what Paul said and meant in its context with all details being inspired. I don’t just read 1 or 2 verses. A text taken ou

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@GetoD6812 @pastherandie You are not recognizing Paul’s command from the Lord th

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie You are not recognizing Paul’s command from the Lord that all can prophesy and all can learn. Paul’s remedy for people like you: “But if anyone does not recognize this, he i

1Co 14:38 debate

@lilyswaller Paul’s intention was to help the Corinthians to understand the basis for the tradition to not cover their heads. The reason for the complication is that the wife has two “heads” because she symbolically links back to the first woman and ...

@lilyswaller Paul’s intention was to help the Corinthians to understand the basis for the tradition to not cover their heads. The reason for the complication is that the wife has two “heads” because s

This is absurd and clearly unscriptural since Jesus was single and passed 30 and

This is absurd and clearly unscriptural since Jesus was single and passed 30 and Paul commended others to remain single as he was. @RenOfMen https://t.co/19KcJREj6P https://t.co/qCWNspGMj3

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley In the case of 1Co 11:17ff, there were some that were not respecting their brothers and sisters so much that they would drink and eat without them so that the others wouldn’t get anything thinking that this was the Lord’s sup...

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley In the case of 1Co 11:17ff, there were some that were not respecting their brothers and sisters so much that they would drink and eat without them so that the others wouldn’t

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley As for 1Cor 11:19, yes there were factions in Corinth, and their rightness or wrongness is not asserted merely because they had differences of opinions. Paul was clear that dividing themselves by associating with a particular...

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley As for 1Cor 11:19, yes there were factions in Corinth, and their rightness or wrongness is not asserted merely because they had differences of opinions. Paul was clear that di

1Cor 11:19 debate

@The_Sig_ You are importing a modern understand of what “head” means in the English. You have to investigate to understand what Paul means by using this term in context. Since both Jesus and the Father are the uncreated creator, there is no sense in ...

@The_Sig_ You are importing a modern understand of what “head” means in the English. You have to investigate to understand what Paul means by using this term in context. Since both Jesus and the Fathe

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Paul is identifying two things: the time order of the cre

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Paul is identifying two things: the time order of the creation of Adam and Eve and that this was why Adam wasn’t deceived but Eve was. Whatever teaching you are inferring about

@IxAMxLAMBO @DoulosDean68 You are interpreting head in our modern context. You n

@IxAMxLAMBO @DoulosDean68 You are interpreting head in our modern context. You need to consider how Paul is using the term kephale. https://t.co/IORdUu0ldY

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@emery__bored I’m not shrinking from kephale. Paul uses that word to connect eve

@emery__bored I’m not shrinking from kephale. Paul uses that word to connect every marriage to the first marriage where Adam is the source or origin of Eve and the initiator. This is why the man is to

@vizini8 @baltinerdist @DoulosDean68 When Paul said husbands are to love their w

@vizini8 @baltinerdist @DoulosDean68 When Paul said husbands are to love their wives were wives not also to love their husbands?

@IiiPaulus @sailemptyskies @rr74cm Gen 1:28 has God commanding in the imperative

@IiiPaulus @sailemptyskies @rr74cm Gen 1:28 has God commanding in the imperative both Adam and Eve and the commands are in the plural. Further, Adam recognized her source in him by calling her Isha (

Gen 1:28 general

@ronhenzel Is Paul’s reference to the Berean believers and how they tested his words spoken only to the elders? Are only the elders to examine and test? If a non elder finds an inconsistency, should they be silenced simply because they are not servin...

@ronhenzel Is Paul’s reference to the Berean believers and how they tested his words spoken only to the elders? Are only the elders to examine and test? If a non elder finds an inconsistency, should t

@ronhenzel Women in general or just married women (since they alone have husbands to ask at home)? You must make sense of what the text specifically states. Rather than holding back the spirit, Paul encourages speaking and even interrupting another ...

@ronhenzel Women in general or just married women (since they alone have husbands to ask at home)? You must make sense of what the text specifically states. Rather than holding back the spirit, Paul

1Co 1:13 1Co 4:21 question

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor In the following I clearly mark Paul’s usage of the contrastive ‘or’ (Greek: ἢ) in 1 Cor: 1Co 1:13 - "Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? ἢ were you baptized in the name of Paul?" 1Co 4:21 - "What do you wish...

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor In the following I clearly mark Paul’s usage of the contrastive ‘or’ (Greek: ἢ) in 1 Cor: 1Co 1:13 - "Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? *ἢ* were you baptized i

@ronhenzel I’ve also repeated my explanation multiple times and you seem unwilli

@ronhenzel I’ve also repeated my explanation multiple times and you seem unwilling to acknowledge that Paul uses various rhetorical techniques and is not limited to one only. That much is crystal clea

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor Here's the list of verses where Paul uses rhetorical questions and contrastive statements to address or correct ideas and behaviors within the early Christian communities showing that this is also a way of identifying forei...

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor Here's the list of verses where Paul uses rhetorical questions and contrastive statements to address or correct ideas and behaviors within the early Christian communities sh

1Co 14:34-35 general

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor While it is true that Paul often introduces quotations or topics from the Corinthians with “Περὶ δὲ” (Peri de, “Now concerning…”), he also employs rhetorical questions and contrastive arguments to distinguish his views from...

@ronhenzel @thecrazypastor While it is true that Paul often introduces quotations or topics from the Corinthians with “Περὶ δὲ” (Peri de, “Now concerning…”), he also employs rhetorical questions and c

@thecrazypastor @ronhenzel This is especially since Paul clearly instructed that

@thecrazypastor @ronhenzel This is especially since Paul clearly instructed that: "For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted..." (1Co 14:31). All may learn, b

1Co 14:31 debate

@thecrazypastor @ronhenzel The only view that makes sense of this text is Paul quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (see 1Co 7:1)⎯this is for the reasons you noted. There is no such law which could ever be reasonably interpreted to suggest th...

@thecrazypastor @ronhenzel The only view that makes sense of this text is Paul quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (see 1Co 7:1)⎯this is for the reasons you noted. There is no such law which

1Co 7:1 general

@ronhenzel 1. Paul writes in 1Co 7:1, "Now concerning the things about which you wrote..." ⎯ since there are no quotation marks in the Greek manuscripts, any quotations are determined by the details in the context. Your statement that there's nothin...

@ronhenzel 1. Paul writes in 1Co 7:1, "Now concerning the things about which you wrote..." ⎯ since there are no quotation marks in the Greek manuscripts, any quotations are determined by the details i

1Co 7:1 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-12

The idea that a woman’s vocalizing is considered as shame or like nakedness is w

The idea that a woman’s vocalizing is considered as shame or like nakedness is what is conveyed by 1Co 14:34-35—a quote from the Corinthian Judiazers which Paul is refuting. https://t.co/tJLVsd40Yy

1Co 14:34-35 general

@pauldirks I'm with you on this one, Paul.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-12

@CaidenHooks @carol66944 @MikeWingerii I am not a liberal and I’m not smuggling anything. Where does the text clearly forbid women? If “one wife husband” doesn’t forbid single males then it isn’t meant to specify marriage or maleness. Paul is intent...

@CaidenHooks @carol66944 @MikeWingerii I am not a liberal and I’m not smuggling anything. Where does the text clearly forbid women? If “one wife husband” doesn’t forbid single males then it isn’t mea