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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel This is a good point⎯Paul doesn't say "the law says"

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel This is a good point⎯Paul doesn't say "the law says" or that sort of thing. I believe it is because Paul is providing backup for young single Timothy as he was about to get

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Glad that you said this! So what then is this authority o

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Glad that you said this! So what then is this authority over the people that elders apparently have that must be restricted to males only?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Of course, you are not saying that Paul cannot use “a woman” to be referring to a specific woman, right? Because pennies, tigers and rotten apples have nothing to do with the context of this passage, Paul’s stated purpose in wr...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Of course, you are not saying that Paul cannot use “a woman” to be referring to a specific woman, right? Because pennies, tigers and rotten apples have nothing to do with the co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too and how God had to show them that the Gentiles were ...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel What you think is clear is because it’s the only way you’ve read these passages. If you hadn’t noticed, there are no male pronouns in the Greek of 1 Tim 3:1-13, there’s no “must not be a woman,” the “one wife husband”—whatever ...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel What you think is clear is because it’s the only way you’ve read these passages. If you hadn’t noticed, there are no male pronouns in the Greek of 1 Tim 3:1-13, there’s no “must

1 Tim 3:1-13 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe Hi Doreen! People who see 1 Tim 2:12 as forbidding godly women from teaching true doctrine to anyone whether in the pulpit or out of the pulpit (does that matter? was there a pulpit in the early church?)⎯these misinterpr...

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe Hi Doreen! People who see 1 Tim 2:12 as forbidding godly women from teaching true doctrine to anyone whether in the pulpit or out of the pulpit (does that matter? was the

1 Tim 2:12 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-15

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii Good questions. 1. Church discipline is not something done by the elders as so many seem to think. There is no explicit elder involvement in Matt 18:15-20. They could be one or more of the witnesses, but not necessari...

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii Good questions. 1. Church discipline is not something done by the elders as so many seem to think. There is no explicit elder involvement in Matt 18:15-20. They could

Matt 18:15-20 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-15

@PatrickHen1776 @MikeWingerii Yes, that’s a fairly common view of complementarians and why churches in the SBC are kicking out egalitarian churches. But I don’t think @MikeWingerii goes this far…or does he? Is it that he still sees female pastors as...

@PatrickHen1776 @MikeWingerii Yes, that’s a fairly common view of complementarians and why churches in the SBC are kicking out egalitarian churches. But I don’t think @MikeWingerii goes this far…or d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-15

@iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii You are exactly right. I don’t understand how Mike allo

@iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii You are exactly right. I don’t understand how Mike allows female deacons and not elders. Perhaps he can’t deny that there were female deacons like Phoebe.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-14

@BasteGhost @wtfcali_ @TheOnlyDSC @AmandaTylerBJC What makes your opinion relevant? And why did you skip v15? If you cannot explain that verse which is Paul's concluding summary of this passage, then what makes you think you understand the rest? God...

@BasteGhost @wtfcali_ @TheOnlyDSC @AmandaTylerBJC What makes your opinion relevant? And why did you skip v15? If you cannot explain that verse which is Paul's concluding summary of this passage, then

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-14

@Yehoshua_x27 Scripture does not prohibit female pastors/elders/overseers. https

@Yehoshua_x27 Scripture does not prohibit female pastors/elders/overseers. https://t.co/QkexDUhLnJ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-14

@PaulieCuddy So women preaching true doctrine or pastoring a church will go to Hell? And those like me exegeting the passages that seem to restrict them will also go there because you disagree with me? Where is a godly woman preaching true doctrine ...

@PaulieCuddy So women preaching true doctrine or pastoring a church will go to Hell? And those like me exegeting the passages that seem to restrict them will also go there because you disagree with me

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-14

@MikeWingerii Hi Mike - can you confirm that a female pastor or elder is not sin

@MikeWingerii Hi Mike - can you confirm that a female pastor or elder is not sinning by occupying this office? Just confirming that this is an entirely secondary issue for you.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The passage where Jesus emphasizes the necessity of believing that He is the "I am" is found in John 8:24: "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you wil...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The passage where Jesus emphasizes the necessity of believing that He is the "I am" is found in John 8:24: "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I’m not speaking on my own authority.

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I’m not speaking on my own authority. Just read the passage.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@AlexioBasinium @jold_92 @BasedTorba @AmandaTylerBJC So your view is that there is no view? Enjoy sawing off the log you are sitting on. In order to continue a conversation, you at least have to have the reasonableness that we look at scripture and ...

@AlexioBasinium @jold_92 @BasedTorba @AmandaTylerBJC So your view is that there is no view? Enjoy sawing off the log you are sitting on. In order to continue a conversation, you at least have to have

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Egalitarian

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Egalitarianism is the same thing as not requiring leaders to be Jewish males. If you have a Gentile pastor, then you would be follo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad I understand as this is the typical model where only the pastor and maybe a worship leader speaks. If you are serious that you “do not need to hear from people” then why do you even need a pastor to spea...

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad I understand as this is the typical model where only the pastor and maybe a worship leader speaks. If you are serious that you “do not need to hear from

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad You said that Mike would have a pro

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad You said that Mike would have a problem with a woman having authority. What does that mean? Is the pastor supposed to tell you what to do? I’ve been asking

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Hi Kim. So is a woman allowed to

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Hi Kim. So is a woman allowed to teach the Bible each Sunday so long as she isn’t called an elder or pastor or bishop? What part of pastoring is off lim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Sometimes I get confused with how each complementarian limits women in leadership. So Mike is fully ok with a woman preaching and teaching on Sunday morning so long as she’s not called an elder or pastor? ...

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Sometimes I get confused with how each complementarian limits women in leadership. So Mike is fully ok with a woman preaching and teaching on Sunday mornin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Doctrines of Rad watched Mike’s vid

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Doctrines of Rad watched Mike’s video and concludes “I’d happily err on his side as opposed to sinning against the Lord.” It would seem that Mike needs to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-11

@ScottCross_8 Yes, another good point. Or given things started with the Jews (th

@ScottCross_8 Yes, another good point. Or given things started with the Jews (the apostles were all Jewish), we should have only Jewish pastors and leaders.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-11

@ronhenzel @eXnihilO_ Ron, I’ve given some of the history below. It’s not monoli

@ronhenzel @eXnihilO_ Ron, I’ve given some of the history below. It’s not monolithic. Question: do you consider a female pastor to be in sin and she should repent and resign? Then who is creating div

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-10

@ronhenzel @NBidnz @SindlandOz34748 @TWFtrish You are right that we are not told that Phoebe is sent to exegete the text, but neither was it stated that she was simply sent to hand over the letter. Just because she was a deacon doesn’t mean that she ...

@ronhenzel @NBidnz @SindlandOz34748 @TWFtrish You are right that we are not told that Phoebe is sent to exegete the text, but neither was it stated that she was simply sent to hand over the letter. Ju

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-10

@ryancduff @TheMuppetPastor @elonmusk Hmm. I can see myself in search from my ac

@ryancduff @TheMuppetPastor @elonmusk Hmm. I can see myself in search from my account but still not from another account.

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel This is a good point⎯Paul doesn't say "the law says"

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Glad that you said this! So what then is this authority o

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Of course, you are not saying that Paul cannot use “a woman” to be referring to a specific woman, right? Because pennies, tigers and rotten apples have nothing to do with the context of this passage, Paul’s stated purpose in wr...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too and how God had to show them that the Gentiles were ...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel What you think is clear is because it’s the only way you’ve read these passages. If you hadn’t noticed, there are no male pronouns in the Greek of 1 Tim 3:1-13, there’s no “must not be a woman,” the “one wife husband”—whatever ...

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe Hi Doreen! People who see 1 Tim 2:12 as forbidding godly women from teaching true doctrine to anyone whether in the pulpit or out of the pulpit (does that matter? was there a pulpit in the early church?)⎯these misinterpr...

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii Good questions. 1. Church discipline is not something done by the elders as so many seem to think. There is no explicit elder involvement in Matt 18:15-20. They could be one or more of the witnesses, but not necessari...

@PatrickHen1776 @MikeWingerii Yes, that’s a fairly common view of complementarians and why churches in the SBC are kicking out egalitarian churches. But I don’t think @MikeWingerii goes this far…or does he? Is it that he still sees female pastors as...

@iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii You are exactly right. I don’t understand how Mike allo

@BasteGhost @wtfcali_ @TheOnlyDSC @AmandaTylerBJC What makes your opinion relevant? And why did you skip v15? If you cannot explain that verse which is Paul's concluding summary of this passage, then what makes you think you understand the rest? God...

@Yehoshua_x27 Scripture does not prohibit female pastors/elders/overseers. https

@PaulieCuddy So women preaching true doctrine or pastoring a church will go to Hell? And those like me exegeting the passages that seem to restrict them will also go there because you disagree with me? Where is a godly woman preaching true doctrine ...

@MikeWingerii Hi Mike - can you confirm that a female pastor or elder is not sin

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The passage where Jesus emphasizes the necessity of believing that He is the "I am" is found in John 8:24: "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that *I am,* you wil...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I’m not speaking on my own authority.

@AlexioBasinium @jold_92 @BasedTorba @AmandaTylerBJC So your view is that there is no view? Enjoy sawing off the log you are sitting on. In order to continue a conversation, you at least have to have the reasonableness that we look at scripture and ...

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Egalitarian

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad I understand as this is the typical model where only the pastor and maybe a worship leader speaks. If you are serious that you “do not need to hear from people” then why do you even need a pastor to spea...

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad You said that Mike would have a pro

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Hi Kim. So is a woman allowed to

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Sometimes I get confused with how each complementarian limits women in leadership. So Mike is fully ok with a woman preaching and teaching on Sunday morning so long as she’s not called an elder or pastor? ...

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Doctrines of Rad watched Mike’s vid

@ScottCross_8 Yes, another good point. Or given things started with the Jews (th

@ronhenzel @eXnihilO_ Ron, I’ve given some of the history below. It’s not monoli

@ronhenzel @NBidnz @SindlandOz34748 @TWFtrish You are right that we are not told that Phoebe is sent to exegete the text, but neither was it stated that she was simply sent to hand over the letter. Just because she was a deacon doesn’t mean that she ...

@ryancduff @TheMuppetPastor @elonmusk Hmm. I can see myself in search from my ac

@ronhenzel @FranklinShell0 @CatherineMcNiel Apostle - Junia Elder/pastor - Prisc

@FranklinShell0 @CatherineMcNiel @ronhenzel These women all played significant roles. 1. Phoebe - a deaconess of the church at Cenchreae. (Rom 16:1-2) 2. Priscilla (Prisca) - taught Apollos and worked alongside Paul; had a church in her home(Act 18:...

@FranklinShell0 @CatherineMcNiel @ronhenzel How do you know that? Because that’s

@TBush1689 @DaxEverts @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @Doctrinesof

@DaxEverts @Ashwin_Vengayil @TBush1689 @pastherandie @TimothyMHurst @Doctrinesof

@DaxEverts @TBush1689 @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii What authority does my pastor have over me that isn't already a command written in the Bible? Can he command me when to sit and stand? How much to give?...

@Son_of_James_ @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii @pastherandie Thanks for saying that! This is a step in the right direction. I don't expect you to become egalitarian, but if you have a respect for the opposing view and that it has solid consistent argum...

@MikeWingerii @JonKismetCalvin @DoctrinesofRad @pastherandie I don't always get

@Keith_J_Gaddy @ronhenzel What's out of context? Did I say that Timothy was all 3 or how he is to select elders and deacons applies to him? BTW, the text in 1 Tim 3:14 literally uses the singular "you." So if you have another explanation that fits t...

@JollyStine @ronhenzel I agree with a lot of what you are writing, but I don't think this is about withholding sex or that it is necessarily the teaching of Hymenaeus and Alexander. Tasking a young single pastor like Timothy to tell married women to...

@TBush1689 @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii "holding forth"? I think I know what the problem is...you and many others feel that the job of the pastor is to be authoritative. I think you got the w...

@TBush1689 @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii It does not say "an elder must not be a woman"! The only pastor mentioned is Jesus and Him calling Peter to shepherd His sheep. Only two are explicitly ...

@TimothyMHurst @pastherandie @TBush1689 @Ashwin_Vengayil @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii This is not correct. It doesn't even say "If any man desires to be an overseer..." It says "if anyone/someone desires to be an overseer." There are not ...

@TBush1689 @pastherandie @TimothyMHurst @Ashwin_Vengayil @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii Tim, its a letter from Paul to Timothy... it's literally in the text... “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savio...

@TBush1689 @pastherandie @TimothyMHurst @Ashwin_Vengayil @DaxEverts @Doctrinesof

@pastherandie @TimothyMHurst @TBush1689 @Ashwin_Vengayil @DaxEverts @Doctrinesof

@TimothyMHurst @TBush1689 @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii Yes, the term "one wife husband" and the corollary "one husband wife" in 1 Tim 5:9 are both intended to mean "faithful, if married" or "faithful to one'...

@Son_of_James_ @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii @pastherandie I would say that if y

@TheMuppetPastor I’ve seen this before too. So frustrating!!

@ronhenzel @johnnylately Ok, so in the churches Paul and the apostles oversaw, women were teaching and pastoring along with men, then there were 19 centuries of suppression of women, and we have finally now realized our error and are correcting back ...

@TBush1689 @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DaxEverts @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii Sure. No magic wands required. Just careful attention to the details in the text and the context and purpose of the letter. Paul says "I do not permit"...

@Son_of_James_ @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii @pastherandie No, I have no problem teaching solely from the book of 1 Timothy and proving that what you just stated is a foreign idea complementarians and patriachalists are inserting into this text. See ...

@Jim7699 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel Paul could have made this more clear by saying something like "an elder must not be a woman" or "women must only teach other women." Paul's statement isn't vague as he already told us his purpose which was for Timothy t...

@pastherandie @TBush1689 @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DaxEverts @Doctrinesof

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@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The passage where Jesus emphasizes the necessity of believing that He is the "I am" is found in John 8:24: "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you wil...