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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-05

@pastherandie @ryancduff Maybe not, but if he’s just trying to follow what he be

@pastherandie @ryancduff Maybe not, but if he’s just trying to follow what he believes the Bible teaches (perhaps imperfectly), I don’t want to just conclude he isn’t a Christian.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@avyargo @bonhoefferchild @MikeWingerii You should definitely follow what you believe the Bible teaches! Don’t violate your conscience. From my perspective, I’d just appreciate it if complementarians acknowledge that not all egalitarians are rejecti...

@avyargo @bonhoefferchild @MikeWingerii You should definitely follow what you believe the Bible teaches! Don’t violate your conscience. From my perspective, I’d just appreciate it if complementarians

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@ryancduff I’m just saying that those who forbid what God doesn’t forbid and the

@ryancduff I’m just saying that those who forbid what God doesn’t forbid and then treat you as unbelievers for not following their requirements Paul seems to suggest have abandoned the faith.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@LifeWithoutLack That is an interesting comment. I am certain Mike wouldn’t agre

@LifeWithoutLack That is an interesting comment. I am certain Mike wouldn’t agree with that, but I know a pastor who literally trusts whatever Mike put in his WIM video series.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@ryancduff I don’t think it’s necessary to say that they are not believers. I’m actually thrilled if I can simply get complementarians to agree that I have a biblically defensible position even if they don’t agree with me. I agree that ignoring what...

@ryancduff I don’t think it’s necessary to say that they are not believers. I’m actually thrilled if I can simply get complementarians to agree that I have a biblically defensible position even if the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii So you admit then that some o

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii So you admit then that some of Paul’s commands don’t apply to you? How do you know which instructions he is giving everyone and which he is giving t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@bonhoefferchild @avyargo @MikeWingerii I believe that Paul authored the letters

@bonhoefferchild @avyargo @MikeWingerii I believe that Paul authored the letters we have in the New Testament and that it’s a matter of reading carefully.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

RT @ryanschatz: Please take back calling for repentance for something Egalitaria

RT @ryanschatz: Please take back calling for repentance for something Egalitarians believe is right and have Biblical substantiation for; d…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-03

Raymond F. Collins in his 1999 commentary on 1 Corinthians in “Sacra Pagina” bel

Raymond F. Collins in his 1999 commentary on 1 Corinthians in “Sacra Pagina” believes that Paul is challenging the men who are stopping the women from speaking. For more details on this view, see my

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-03

Raymond F. Collins in his 1999 commentary on 1 Corinthians in “Sacra Pagina” bel

Raymond F. Collins in his 1999 commentary on 1 Corinthians in “Sacra Pagina” believes that Paul is challenging the men who are stopping the women from speaking. For more details on this view, see my

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-03

@YaakovSomar A freebie? A treat? I don’t believe in equity. I agree it’s a res

@YaakovSomar A freebie? A treat? I don’t believe in equity. I agree it’s a responsibility and a trust. Pastoring is for those whom God calls and who are qualified. And it goes beyond 1 hour on Sunda

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-03

@YaakovSomar I’m not sure what you mean by feminism. I believe the scripture gi

@YaakovSomar I’m not sure what you mean by feminism. I believe the scripture gives equal opportunity to women; it doesn’t mean that there has to be equal outcomes.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@BeardedPresby My wife doesn’t even have an account on X. Shows you how much you

@BeardedPresby My wife doesn’t even have an account on X. Shows you how much you know.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Unashamed_Chuck @RushiXmakima Yes, this has to do with the time sequence order of creation, not authority order. And the time sequence connects with deception. Ask yourself, how was it that Eve was deceived but Adam wasn’t when they both knew the co...

@Unashamed_Chuck @RushiXmakima Yes, this has to do with the time sequence order of creation, not authority order. And the time sequence connects with deception. Ask yourself, how was it that Eve was d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@SteelSmack @MikeWingerii That’s true. Though I don’t think Mike believes that t

@SteelSmack @MikeWingerii That’s true. Though I don’t think Mike believes that the restriction on women from being elders or having authority which may be confused with that of elders is Paul’s opinio

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden where Eve was made from and for Adam. Both were com...

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

It’s because I believe the Bible has no contradictions that I am an egalitarian

It’s because I believe the Bible has no contradictions that I am an egalitarian and believe that women are not restricted from teaching, oversight or pastoral work simply because they are women. https

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Tibbetburritoo @harduppp @RevKimWChafee @TxPlainZoomer @LaMonteMom @IAmNOTALao @WomnOfValor Male and female are different. Not one is arguing that they are the same. But this difference has nothing to do with salvation (it never did) nor with the ab...

@Tibbetburritoo @harduppp @RevKimWChafee @TxPlainZoomer @LaMonteMom @IAmNOTALao @WomnOfValor Male and female are different. Not one is arguing that they are the same. But this difference has nothing t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use singular “a woman” if he intends all women like v9-10? How do you know whether this is generic or specific? Who is “the woman” in v14 referring to? “She will be saved…if they” ...

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use singular “a woman” if he intends all women like v9-10? How do you know whether this is generic or specific? Who is “the woman”

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use the si

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use the singular? Paul links the time sequence order of creation to why Eve was deceived—why? Who is “the woman” in v14? “She w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals Paul wasn’t commanding anyone to be pas

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals Paul wasn’t commanding anyone to be pastors or elders. What are you talking about?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals The context is stopping false teaching

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals The context is stopping false teaching not stopping all women from teaching. Women are commanded to teach by the great commission so Paul clearly wasn’t meanin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals This has nothing to do w

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals This has nothing to do with not liking what the Bible you and everything to do with understanding what it really says. https://t.co/Y0IdPyu8TO

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals No, a woman who God gifts to teach or p

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals No, a woman who God gifts to teach or pastor is not in rebellion. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-01

@severegrace @smashbaals That would normally be called a pastor, elder or overse

@severegrace @smashbaals That would normally be called a pastor, elder or overseer. We don’t carry forward the OT priesthood with the job of performing bloodless sacrifices because the OT system is su

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-01

@AmateurOrthoInq @ChadRutter_ @smashbaals The Orthodox appear to be carrying forward the OT priesthood into the New Testament. Was Peter, Paul, James or any of the apostles ever called a priest like that? Any description of them wearing the priestly ...

@AmateurOrthoInq @ChadRutter_ @smashbaals The Orthodox appear to be carrying forward the OT priesthood into the New Testament. Was Peter, Paul, James or any of the apostles ever called a priest like t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@cjohnsonn0311 Except Paul never meant to exclude godly women from teaching trut

@cjohnsonn0311 Except Paul never meant to exclude godly women from teaching truth to anyone. The context is stopping false teaching. #ReadPaulInContext

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-24

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals I’m not affirming disobedience as I don’t believe th

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals I’m not affirming disobedience as I don’t believe these passages are forbidding godly women from teaching truth to men or from pastoral work. I’ll take a look at the Crossw

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-24

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heresy, not teaching the truth of the Bible. And Paul n...

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heres

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-23

@wgrapperhaus @MikeWingerii A godly woman preaching, teaching or pastoring even

@wgrapperhaus @MikeWingerii A godly woman preaching, teaching or pastoring even over men is not against God’s law.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@Whatsinaname41 @AVER735 Exactly! But he’s going to then use "Eph 5:24: 'Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.'" Yet he takes this in isolation forgetting the context of mutual submission a...

@Whatsinaname41 @AVER735 Exactly! But he’s going to then use "Eph 5:24: 'Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.'" Yet he takes this in isola

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-21

@jtdxn_ @KingRomans828 @Eric_Conn Even in the church, Paul admits that the older

@jtdxn_ @KingRomans828 @Eric_Conn Even in the church, Paul admits that the older widows do not need to get remarried and are allowed to be put on a support list if needed. There were also some wealthy

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@Trentofthenorth @Crystalisives Eve helping means Adam is the one with the need

@Trentofthenorth @Crystalisives Eve helping means Adam is the one with the need and Eve is the provider. God is also said to be our helper but no one thinks that this makes man the authority over God.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Paul said that deception has to do with the time sequence in the creation order. Adam was not deceived because he was the ruler of Eve. Adam experiences God’s creative acts including the making of ...

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Paul said that deception has to do with the time sequence in the creation order. Adam was not deceived because he was the ruler of Eve. Adam experi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@B_______Q_____ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situ

@B_______Q_____ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situation in Ephesus. Eve was deceived and not Adam, this being because of the time sequence order of creation. https://t.co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@AVER735 @smashli1228 @BenZeisloft I believe what the Bible clearly states in co

@AVER735 @smashli1228 @BenZeisloft I believe what the Bible clearly states in context which is that it does not forbid anyone because of their ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@AVER735 @cesarro93931165 @BenZeisloft “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of **all nations,** baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, **and teaching them...

@AVER735 @cesarro93931165 @BenZeisloft “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of **all nations,** baptizing them in the name of the Father and of t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@AVER735 @peace_got @MikeWingerii No, I’m explaining what I believe the Bible ob

@AVER735 @peace_got @MikeWingerii No, I’m explaining what I believe the Bible objectively means for everyone. My presupposition was the complementarian view until I read the text more carefully.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@smashli1228 @BenZeisloft Technically, he doesn't believe women are allowed to b

@smashli1228 @BenZeisloft Technically, he doesn't believe women are allowed to be pastors or elders. I'm not sure that makes him a raging misogynist.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Both Adam and Eve were commanded using an imperative to rule in Ge 1:28. Both women and men are commanded to make disciples by Jesus' own authority in Mat 28:18-20. To refuse to allow them simply because they are women is...

@smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Both Adam and Eve were commanded using an imperative to rule in Ge 1:28. Both women and men are commanded to make disciples by Jesus' own authority in Mat 28:18-20. To ref

Ge 1:28 Mat 28:18-20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@smashbaals Are you concerned that women will learn Hebrew and Greek and theolog

@smashbaals Are you concerned that women will learn Hebrew and Greek and theology because you are concerned they will never get to use it in your system?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii Yes, responsibility is key. Adam was responsible because God allowed him to experience things about Him that Eve didn’t observe. He wasn’t deceived and therefore should have helped Eve but instead he remained silent. Authority...

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii Yes, responsibility is key. Adam was responsible because God allowed him to experience things about Him that Eve didn’t observe. He wasn’t deceived and therefore should have hel

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii I didn’t say I was complementarian, I said conservative.

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii I didn’t say I was complementarian, I said conservative. I don’t believe the text teaches male authority over women and I want to conserve the meaning and intent of the text and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@RushiXmakima Despite the not great stuff, don’t stop meeting with believers reg

@RushiXmakima Despite the not great stuff, don’t stop meeting with believers regularly and doing church right.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@AVER735 Gen 4:7 has nothing to do with Eve and is a completely different context. Song of Solomon 7:10 is the relevant sense: “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.” So you agree that the ground is cursed, not Adam or Eve? God never comman...

@AVER735 Gen 4:7 has nothing to do with Eve and is a completely different context. Song of Solomon 7:10 is the relevant sense: “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.” So you agree that the gr

Gen 4:7 Solomon 7:10 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

RT @kenschenck: I affirm women in all roles of ministry leadership on the follow

RT @kenschenck: I affirm women in all roles of ministry leadership on the following basis: 1. Women arguably play every such role in Scrip…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@LuckyDuck2121 @Crystalisives Adam was literally the first man created and from

@LuckyDuck2121 @Crystalisives Adam was literally the first man created and from whom Eve was made; he’s like the headwaters or source of the human stream. Head does not mean authority over as we assum

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@Vincent98V @slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale I think I’ll let God dec

@Vincent98V @slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale I think I’ll let God decide if he is going to kick me out of heaven because I shared the leadership of the family together with my wife. BTW, al

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

Yikes! Gen 3 doesn’t curse the man and woman; it curses the serpent and the ground. The woman’s increased toil in childbirth and her desire for her husband suggest a continued affection and bond to him, not dominance. Adam’s blaming Eve is the reas...

Yikes! Gen 3 doesn’t curse the man and woman; it curses the serpent and the ground. The woman’s increased toil in childbirth and her desire for her husband suggest a continued affection and bond to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@Flyoverland22 It would seem that in holding to what they believe the scriptures to teach they are invoking a male domination and blessing it with “its scriptural”—and worse, if you don’t agree you are in rebellion to God and need to repent. This de...

@Flyoverland22 It would seem that in holding to what they believe the scriptures to teach they are invoking a male domination and blessing it with “its scriptural”—and worse, if you don’t agree you ar

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