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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-19

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yep, there’s that line again where what complementarians view as clear Biblical teaching gets applied in a remarkably varied fashion. Dr. Dani Treweek recently explained how wonderful of a reception women had at a conference of c...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yep, there’s that line again where what complementarians view as clear Biblical teaching gets applied in a remarkably varied fashion. Dr. Dani Treweek recently explained how wonde

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I think I may not have stated what you were meaning properly. Sorry if I misrepresented you. What I hear you saying is that both women and men submit directly to the Lord, but while husbands may take out the garbage or go get a ...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I think I may not have stated what you were meaning properly. Sorry if I misrepresented you. What I hear you saying is that both women and men submit directly to the Lord, but wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT First of all, thank you for continuing to dialogue on this with me! It is quite rare. I really do appreciate it. I also commend you for not implementing the clear statements of women to not speak in the assembly in 1 Cor 14:34....

@pauldirks @KaeleyT First of all, thank you for continuing to dialogue on this with me! It is quite rare. I really do appreciate it. I also commend you for not implementing the clear statements of

1 Cor 14:34 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Agreed and just to be specific to get agreement from PaulD, he would say that a woman can teach women and children and can share the gospel or share prophecy, but she must remain under the judgment of the elders when doing so and ...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Agreed and just to be specific to get agreement from PaulD, he would say that a woman can teach women and children and can share the gospel or share prophecy, but she must remain u

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@GillesPaling @BogdanOancea77 I’m not asserting “theological liberalism” but mer

@GillesPaling @BogdanOancea77 I’m not asserting “theological liberalism” but merely that the Bible does not teach that qualified women who lead and those who preach and teach true doctrine are not goi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-16

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, there are differences beyond the physical. However, these differences should not be misconstrued as barriers to women’s capacity for leadership, theological study, teaching, or preaching. The real question we should be askin...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, there are differences beyond the physical. However, these differences should not be misconstrued as barriers to women’s capacity for leadership, theological study, teaching,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-16

@BogdanOancea77 @Hansronsdorf However, for one to prophesy but not be able to teach is very strange indeed. Prophesy is not always future telling but also explaining God’s word. In v36 the “you” is plural masculine. How would one know that Paul is...

@BogdanOancea77 @Hansronsdorf However, for one to prophesy but not be able to teach is very strange indeed. Prophesy is not always future telling but also explaining God’s word. In v36 the “you” is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-16

@BogdanOancea77 1. No There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that women were allowed to read Torah in first century synagogues. Teaching and preaching would be from the Torah and the reasons for not hearing a woman’s voice in this context is it coul...

@BogdanOancea77 1. No There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that women were allowed to read Torah in first century synagogues. Teaching and preaching would be from the Torah and the reasons for not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The apostle Paul is speaking into situations where the woman is treated as necessary to bear children and keep house—more as a slave or property. He is calling these men to a higher standard. But he is not meaning that women als...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The apostle Paul is speaking into situations where the woman is treated as necessary to bear children and keep house—more as a slave or property. He is calling these men to a high

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf If it’s just an analogy because of marriage which doesn’t restrict women from leadership roles, if it doesn’t mean the husband breaking every tie (unless by mutual consent), if it doesn’t mean you peer into the eye...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf If it’s just an analogy because of marriage which doesn’t restrict women from leadership roles, if it doesn’t mean the husband breaking every tie (unless by mutual

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Perhaps what Paul means is male priority. Supremacy is too charged and extreme for what he is proposing. I still disagree with male priority on scriptural grounds. At best, we might see it something like the man was first follo...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Perhaps what Paul means is male priority. Supremacy is too charged and extreme for what he is proposing. I still disagree with male priority on scriptural grounds. At best, we m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

@KaeleyT @pauldirks There is a feminist movement that is very clearly hostile to males perhaps reactionary to patriarchy. And of course the patriarchists can often be seen as hostile to women, often upset when any of them do things that they don’t t...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks There is a feminist movement that is very clearly hostile to males perhaps reactionary to patriarchy. And of course the patriarchists can often be seen as hostile to women, often

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, Christ sacrificed to save His bride but His bride consists of both men and women who are in turn called to lay down their lives for one another. Laying down one’s life is not a gendered requirement. And women sacrifice thei...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, Christ sacrificed to save His bride but His bride consists of both men and women who are in turn called to lay down their lives for one another. Laying down one’s life is not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-13

@JohnMoo26668690 I don’t know where you are getting your assumptions from. 1. I don’t think males should act like females or females like males. Confusing the genders by cross dressing is forbidden by scripture (Deut 22:5 “A women must not wear men...

@JohnMoo26668690 I don’t know where you are getting your assumptions from. 1. I don’t think males should act like females or females like males. Confusing the genders by cross dressing is forbidden

Deut 22:5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-13

@Veritas1646 @samuel_costner @thescottbarber The argument is that Judiazers have infiltrated the churches (an example is in Gal 2:4-5 related to circumcision). They see the chaos in the Corinthian service and are likely shocked by the women that a...

@Veritas1646 @samuel_costner @thescottbarber The argument is that Judiazers have infiltrated the churches (an example is in Gal 2:4-5 related to circumcision). They see the chaos in the Corinthian

Gal 2:4-5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-12

@JohnMoo26668690 @WillEhrendreich @ElizabethOstli1 I may in fact be a fool. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the point I’m making. Do you think that I am advocating for those women that are teaching false doctrines today? Is that ...

@JohnMoo26668690 @WillEhrendreich @ElizabethOstli1 I may in fact be a fool. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the point I’m making. Do you think that I am advocating for those women

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-12

@thescottbarber Paul is refuting the idea from the letter the Corinthians wrote

@thescottbarber Paul is refuting the idea from the letter the Corinthians wrote to Paul (1 Cor 7:1). Paul is actually encouraging women to participate. I go through all the details here. https://t.c

1 Cor 7:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@JohnHar63885981 @DickSaban1 Paul starts out "Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task" not "males that aspire" but "whoever" which is the word τις You cannot take a statement about monogamy and then apply "must be male" as Paul says "...

@JohnHar63885981 @DickSaban1 Paul starts out "Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task" not "males that aspire" but "whoever" which is the word τις You cannot take a statement about mon

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@JohnHar63885981 @DickSaban1 The problem is that you assume the office is limited to men. But just as it is not limited to married men with children, it is also not limited to men. If you say husband must mean it's a man, then it must also mean he ...

@JohnHar63885981 @DickSaban1 The problem is that you assume the office is limited to men. But just as it is not limited to married men with children, it is also not limited to men. If you say husban

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@PubliusJosephus @DickSaban1 Yes, the difference between deacons and elders is that elders must be able to teach. Surely you agree that women are also gifted to teach. So you must think they can teach children and other women? What makes men so un...

@PubliusJosephus @DickSaban1 Yes, the difference between deacons and elders is that elders must be able to teach. Surely you agree that women are also gifted to teach. So you must think they can tea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

1 Tim 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9 ⎯ Character qualifications for leadership; Paul doesn'

1 Tim 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9 ⎯ Character qualifications for leadership; Paul doesn't forbid the single, the childless or women https://t.co/SMUaKrLevt

1 Tim 3:1-13 Titus 1:5-9 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Just for those who may not be aware of Jo

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Just for those who may not be aware of John's stance on women preaching, here it is. https://t.co/iVvDskeZ0d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Is it a sin for a woman to pastor (shepherd) other women? Where is this sin listed in any list of sins? Regardless of the title, if she is able to shepherd her children and she can shepherd other women, why is...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Is it a sin for a woman to pastor (shepherd) other women? Where is this sin listed in any list of sins? Regardless of the title, if she is able to shepherd her

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I don’t reject the plain meaning of scripture but interpret it in context. Thanks for your concern but we disagree on a secondary issue related to women and that’s ok. Your reference to 1 Tim 2:11-12 should be...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I don’t reject the plain meaning of scripture but interpret it in context. Thanks for your concern but we disagree on a secondary issue related to women and tha

1 Tim 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek It is not clear throughout scripture that

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek It is not clear throughout scripture that women cannot be elders and deacons. I trust the scriptures too. You are free to agree with John MacArthur.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I suppose I’ll share my motivations for dealing so much with this particular issue on women (what you see as obsession and insistence). First, it is resulting in recent division within the SBC and other churche...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I suppose I’ll share my motivations for dealing so much with this particular issue on women (what you see as obsession and insistence). First, it is resulting i

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek This way of framing our difference is disingenuous. You don’t see that how you interpret this issue is through your patriarchal rubric? You split a hair on one detail in the phrase “one wife husband” and don’t...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek This way of framing our difference is disingenuous. You don’t see that how you interpret this issue is through your patriarchal rubric? You split a hair on one

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@nsraban Interesting because I believe 1 Cor 14:34-35 is a quote from the letter

@nsraban Interesting because I believe 1 Cor 14:34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and Paul is refuting it. Paul is advocating for women to have equal rights to speak.

1 Cor 14:34-35 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@nsraban Actually, it seems 1 Cor 14:34-35 says all women are to keep silent because their speaking is shameful. Those who are married can ask their husbands at home. It totally goes against Paul’s instructions that all can prophesy and all can lea...

@nsraban Actually, it seems 1 Cor 14:34-35 says all women are to keep silent because their speaking is shameful. Those who are married can ask their husbands at home. It totally goes against Paul’s

1 Cor 14:34-35 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@nsraban @CovenantReform2 @smashbaals Yes, Nice find. But Num 30:13 isn’t a law silencing women in the assembly but confirming whether her vow which she speaks is in force and binding. Kind of different. Gen 3:16 is a prophecy to the woman about w...

@nsraban @CovenantReform2 @smashbaals Yes, Nice find. But Num 30:13 isn’t a law silencing women in the assembly but confirming whether her vow which she speaks is in force and binding. Kind of diffe

Num 30:13 Gen 3:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Well, what happens to single women who don't have a husband? I think this passage refers to how the wife often sticks with an abusive, controlling husband even though it doesn't make sense. I could be wrong, bu...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Well, what happens to single women who don't have a husband? I think this passage refers to how the wife often sticks with an abusive, controlling husband even t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek The English translations insert male pronouns likely because of the phrase "one wife husband" but the passage is not intending to say an elder must not be a woman or must not be single or must have children. Ta...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek The English translations insert male pronouns likely because of the phrase "one wife husband" but the passage is not intending to say an elder must not be a woma

1 Tim 2:15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@GlennDavies @outcatching @danitreweek Both forms are used so I summarized as “faithful to one’s spouse”. 1 Tim 3:2,12; Tit 1:6 is the husband form and 1 Tim 5:9 the wife form. The “he’s” are following the default but the male pronoun isn’t there. ...

@GlennDavies @outcatching @danitreweek Both forms are used so I summarized as “faithful to one’s spouse”. 1 Tim 3:2,12; Tit 1:6 is the husband form and 1 Tim 5:9 the wife form. The “he’s” are follow

1 Tim 3:2 1 Tim 5:9 Tit 1:6 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Again, the apostles are chosen before the church is instituted. Just because men were chosen first doesn’t mean women cannot follow as apostles (though different than the foundational apostles). Just like chur...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Again, the apostles are chosen before the church is instituted. Just because men were chosen first doesn’t mean women cannot follow as apostles (though differen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-09

@GlennDavies @NancyRPearcey So the difference is that patriarchalists (P) assert women are subservient to males and complementarians (C) assert women don’t lead in the family and church because it doesn’t follow God’s order? So P says women are crea...

@GlennDavies @NancyRPearcey So the difference is that patriarchalists (P) assert women are subservient to males and complementarians (C) assert women don’t lead in the family and church because it doe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck What, you can’t read Gen 3:16 either? Why don’t you answer my questions then? Why didn’t God tell Adam he should rule the woman? Why were his words to Eve future not present? I don’t advocate for women forcin...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck What, you can’t read Gen 3:16 either? Why don’t you answer my questions then? Why didn’t God tell Adam he should rule the woman? Why were his words to Eve futu

Gen 3:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@RobertZ60423932 @NiceNeanderthal @Red_Beard_1Sgt Plain English? But it’s Greek. Further, it cannot mean “must be married” (Paul himself wasn’t married), and this doesn’t say “must not be a woman”. Given no male pronouns are used in this passage a...

@RobertZ60423932 @NiceNeanderthal @Red_Beard_1Sgt Plain English? But it’s Greek. Further, it cannot mean “must be married” (Paul himself wasn’t married), and this doesn’t say “must not be a woman”.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@BogdanOancea77 Again, I don't believe Paul is constrained ONLY to answer questions. He is correcting their misunderstandings and statements. I don't see "your women" in v34, but "the women" (nominative, not genitive as I think would be used for "y...

@BogdanOancea77 Again, I don't believe Paul is constrained ONLY to answer questions. He is correcting their misunderstandings and statements. I don't see "your women" in v34, but "the women" (nomina

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck So where does that leave single women? I have a feeling we have a totally different idea of what leading means. Both the husband and the wife lead in different ways and different times. It is a mutual leadersh...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck So where does that leave single women? I have a feeling we have a totally different idea of what leading means. Both the husband and the wife lead in different

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Men and women both form the bride of Christ. Just like Adam was the origin of Eve (she came from his flesh and bone), so also the Christ is the origin of the church (our life comes from Him). Jesus is said to r...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Men and women both form the bride of Christ. Just like Adam was the origin of Eve (she came from his flesh and bone), so also the Christ is the origin of the chu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Without the limitation of having men rule

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Without the limitation of having men rule over women? I don’t think you are really thinking through this carefully. Whatever are single women to do?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@anahnemoo @William_E_Wolfe This is divisive!! Since when is allowing women to preach true doctrine or lead based on God’s gifting a gospel issue?! In some ways it is because of Gal 3:28 and you can be certain women were saved just like men in the ...

@anahnemoo @William_E_Wolfe This is divisive!! Since when is allowing women to preach true doctrine or lead based on God’s gifting a gospel issue?! In some ways it is because of Gal 3:28 and you can

Gal 3:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@TomBuck Gal 3:26-28 shows that there is a change for those in the church (in Ch

@TomBuck Gal 3:26-28 shows that there is a change for those in the church (in Christ), that the barriers of ethnicity, gender and social status have fallen. Surely women were saved in the OT, so that

Gal 3:26-28 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@TheLone73479323 @RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris @jerr_rrej To say that it is worshippi

@TheLone73479323 @RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris @jerr_rrej To say that it is worshipping Satan simply by allowing gifted women to teach true doctrine and lead is hard to understand. https://t.co/LPisirHz38

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris You are right that it is dangerous to say that you don't like what the Bible says and then come up with your own way. But what if we've been reading these passages on women wrong in the first place and one can be faithful to...

@RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris You are right that it is dangerous to say that you don't like what the Bible says and then come up with your own way. But what if we've been reading these passages on women w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-06

@ChrisHohnholz Except 1 Tim 2:11 says "a woman" not "women" and verse 15 says "she (singular) will be saved through the (definite) childbearing (noun) if they (the wife and husband that Paul was referring to)". One would expect verse 14 to say "but ...

@ChrisHohnholz Except 1 Tim 2:11 says "a woman" not "women" and verse 15 says "she (singular) will be saved through the (definite) childbearing (noun) if they (the wife and husband that Paul was refer

1 Tim 2:11 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-06

@ChrisHohnholz You make good points here. And clearly men can be deceived and women can rebel against what they know. However, there is no evidence of authority or leadership in the original creation. Yes, God's sovereign will was to create the ma...

@ChrisHohnholz You make good points here. And clearly men can be deceived and women can rebel against what they know. However, there is no evidence of authority or leadership in the original creatio

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-06

@RebelDissent @KaeleyT @William_E_Wolfe Where is this law that silences women in

@RebelDissent @KaeleyT @William_E_Wolfe Where is this law that silences women in the assembly because their voices are shameful and lewd?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-06

@William_E_Wolfe This all seems to hinge on what this law is and where it comes

@William_E_Wolfe This all seems to hinge on what this law is and where it comes from. There is no such law in scripture that prohibits women from speaking (or judging) in the assembly. https://t.co/W

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-04

@Kdubtru You are just showing there’s a spectrum of male priority in leadership. If patriarchy seems too extreme you can be complementarian. If you don’t believe women speaking in church is shameful you can still believe that she is meant to not ju...

@Kdubtru You are just showing there’s a spectrum of male priority in leadership. If patriarchy seems too extreme you can be complementarian. If you don’t believe women speaking in church is shameful

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