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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii Interesting you frame gender roles as coming from a dictionary def

@MikeWingerii Interesting you frame gender roles as coming from a dictionary definition. No such definition for male-only authority or leadership exists.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-11

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii I guess my point is how is it better that she be di

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii I guess my point is how is it better that she be divorced from her husband and forced to remarry when staying in her situation is likely better?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@SKokenos @harkening @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Kay likely would have been a pastor if the church wasn’t so hostile to female pastors. Her teaching ministry seems to be acceptable even to many complementarians because she isn’t a “pastor” in the t...

@SKokenos @harkening @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Kay likely would have been a pastor if the church wasn’t so hostile to female pastors. Her teaching ministry seems to be acceptable even to many comp

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-23

@theBaxterian Where is anyone called a 'pastor' in the New Testament? Where does

@theBaxterian Where is anyone called a 'pastor' in the New Testament? Where does it say "women should not be pastors"? Hm. So why restrict them from going to seminary?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-20

@strykerdawn Actually, it does. I’m attaching a few resources as well as something from “The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words” below. The guards on the wall of a city were called to keep watch over the safety of the city. Guard In each case it ...

@strykerdawn Actually, it does. I’m attaching a few resources as well as something from “The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words” below. The guards on the wall of a city were called to keep watch ov

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You are correct that 'a woman' and 'Eve' are both anarthrous. I don't agree that the anaphoric use makes best sense referring back to Eve. Paul is using Adam and Eve prototypically which is why 'the woman' looks like Eve...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You are correct that 'a woman' and 'Eve' are both anarthrous. I don't agree that the anaphoric use makes best sense referring back to Eve. Paul is using Adam and Eve prot

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Do you submit to the authority of the “vast majority” of scholars? “A woman” is in vvs11-12 and “the woman” (who is not Eve) is in v14 and the subject of v15 and is the anaphoric use of the article to provide specificit...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Do you submit to the authority of the “vast majority” of scholars? “A woman” is in vvs11-12 and “the woman” (who is not Eve) is in v14 and the subject of v15 and is the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@cajunemus @DFEACK1 We should create a list of scenarios so they can all get tog

@cajunemus @DFEACK1 We should create a list of scenarios so they can all get together and debate what is a sin and what is not a sin. Because none of this is clear from scripture.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@landjax No. You don’t divide as a cautionary against a possibility. But of cour

@landjax No. You don’t divide as a cautionary against a possibility. But of course you already assume that female pastors are in rebellion, so what does it matter to you what they do after that? This

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-06

@zorropundit @MikeWingerii According to my Greek dictionary, ethnic are the non

@zorropundit @MikeWingerii According to my Greek dictionary, ethnic are the non Jewish peoples.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-04

@Dayagent47 The only church history that matters is the prescriptive statements made in scripture. The rest is not inspired. You are overlooking why Jesus chose 12 male apostles and presuming it is because women are forbidden. This kind of binary th...

@Dayagent47 The only church history that matters is the prescriptive statements made in scripture. The rest is not inspired. You are overlooking why Jesus chose 12 male apostles and presuming it is b

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-03

@BibleBashed Interesting binary framing of this one. My wife contributes to the

@BibleBashed Interesting binary framing of this one. My wife contributes to the family income. Also, so long as she’s not spending recklessly or sinfully (gambling habit, drugs, etc), then why shoul

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-15

@reverend_joey @RobertEJohnson5 @paulogia0 Nice. Well I can certainly understand the limitations of science and the problems with evolutionary biology. My daughter is also in her last year of biochemistry. Why don’t you present the scientific basis ...

@reverend_joey @RobertEJohnson5 @paulogia0 Nice. Well I can certainly understand the limitations of science and the problems with evolutionary biology. My daughter is also in her last year of biochemi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-13

@Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @5cd5945b24ec495 @GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Idolkiller He had the power because He never stopped being God. He submitted to the Father so that He could live as an ordinary man. But when the Father showed Him what He is do...

@Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @5cd5945b24ec495 @GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Idolkiller He had the power because He never stopped being God. He submitted to the Father so that He could live as an ordinary

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-03

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-11

@scottspeig @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii You are certainly allowed to come to your own conclusion on a debatable matter like this. Yet Mike as probably the most influential complementarian at this time told egaliatarians to repent of spreading their ...

@scottspeig @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii You are certainly allowed to come to your own conclusion on a debatable matter like this. Yet Mike as probably the most influential complementarian at this tim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-11

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Yes. The tendency is to look at clear scriptures which seem to include women even at the highest levels having authority over men, teaching men, etc., but then a few passages later which seem to contradict or have some de...

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Yes. The tendency is to look at clear scriptures which seem to include women even at the highest levels having authority over men, teaching men, etc., but then a few passa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-11

@lunarCelerity @pastherandie @MikeWingerii You are right that something doesn't sit right with how he seems to speak of egalitarians as brothers and sisters but then calls them to repent of spreading the teaching. If they refuse to repent, wouldn't t...

@lunarCelerity @pastherandie @MikeWingerii You are right that something doesn't sit right with how he seems to speak of egalitarians as brothers and sisters but then calls them to repent of spreading

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-11

@clay_keller1 @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Yes, this is a matter of Mike's own conscience on a debatable matter. He is free to conclude that the Bible promotes a complementarian view, but not as a matter of sin if you don't have male-only elders. If...

@clay_keller1 @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Yes, this is a matter of Mike's own conscience on a debatable matter. He is free to conclude that the Bible promotes a complementarian view, but not as a mat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@pastherandie @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii And Hawk, please show me one place in

@pastherandie @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii And Hawk, please show me one place in scripture where a godly woman teaching truth to men or shepherding people (including males) is ever called a sin.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Mike has had a long time to correct or clarify his definition of secondary. As best as I can tell, to him it's a matter of perceived severity, not sin. He thinks that egalitarian teaching greatly harms marriage. How does ...

@lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii Mike has had a long time to correct or clarify his definition of secondary. As best as I can tell, to him it's a matter of perceived severity, not sin. He thinks that egal

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-06

@CherylSchatz @DougLundy7 @jamesdpeavy @salvationarmy Agreed. I don’t understand

@CherylSchatz @DougLundy7 @jamesdpeavy @salvationarmy Agreed. I don’t understand how they can purely spiritualize what are clear physical acts in scripture though they are correct that these are not r

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-30

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii How do you know Corinth didn't have elders? It was started by Paul, and Paul and Barnabas appointed elders in each church on their first missionary journey (Ac 14...

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii How do you know Corinth didn't have elders? It was started by Paul, and Paul and Barnabas appointed elders in ea

Ac 14:23 Ti 1:5 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-29

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii The idea that it is the elders who mete out disciplinary action for unrepentant believers bypasses the instruction of Jesus in Matt 18 which says it is the 2 or 3...

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii The idea that it is the elders who mete out disciplinary action for unrepentant believers bypasses the instructi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@lunarCelerity Here are a few reasons. In Greek, word ordering isn’t the same as in English. There is no boldface so by putting a word first you emphasize it like bolding. Most translators are men and they come to the text with a bias towards men and...

@lunarCelerity Here are a few reasons. In Greek, word ordering isn’t the same as in English. There is no boldface so by putting a word first you emphasize it like bolding. Most translators are men and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@ronhenzel Especially in the context where we have *two* anarthrous nouns. How do we decide? What is Paul intending in the context? Why not the personal pronoun? How is a generic woman saved through ‘the childbearing’ when not all women bear children...

@ronhenzel Especially in the context where we have *two* anarthrous nouns. How do we decide? What is Paul intending in the context? Why not the personal pronoun? How is a generic woman saved through ‘

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@ScottCross_8 @ronhenzel @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii What Ron said is disingenuous. He knows that this has nothing to do with beginner Greek. I can even show Dr Wallace saying that the article is not required to poi...

@ScottCross_8 @ronhenzel @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii What Ron said is disingenuous. He knows that this has nothing to do with beginner Greek. I can even show Dr Wall

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@smashbaals @bornagainbrett So that’s the only reason people go to seminary, huh

@smashbaals @bornagainbrett So that’s the only reason people go to seminary, huh? They don’t just want to be better theologians and interpreters of the word? Even in your view, what about women teachi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@EkIesou @ronhenzel The definite article is in v14 showing that the previous use

@EkIesou @ronhenzel The definite article is in v14 showing that the previous use of the anarthrous is meant to be specific and not general. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instruct “specific people”

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Responsibility often comes with knowledge, ability, experience or maturity. “John answered and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.’” (Jn 3:27) Later, Jesus said to ...

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Responsibility often comes with knowledge, ability, experience or maturity. “John answered and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given h

Jn 3:27 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Hmm. I don’t see that. I see Paul using the Adam and Eve as prototypes of this particular married couple in Ephesus. This see...

@Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Hmm. I don’t see that. I see Paul using the Adam and Eve as prototypes of t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii It’s not about whether you can make it work but about what the Bible teaches. There is absolutely no hint of a hierarchy of authority in Gen 1-2 between the man and the woman. No one in the text appears to...

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii It’s not about whether you can make it work but about what the Bible teaches. There is absolutely no hint of a hierarchy of authority in Gen 1-2 between th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Adam didn’t name Eve, he recognized what God had created: Adam=Ish, Eve=Isha. Unless you believe she had two names and every woman had the same name as her? There is no hierarchy within God. That is a very...

@narrow_road_2 @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Adam didn’t name Eve, he recognized what God had created: Adam=Ish, Eve=Isha. Unless you believe she had two names and every woman had the same name as her?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@godswordisasto1 @MikeWingerii Interesting reaction. He didn’t go to seminary.

@godswordisasto1 @MikeWingerii Interesting reaction. He didn’t go to seminary. He took Calvary Chapel’s school of ministry.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Crystalisives @NarnianAttorney @William34772026 @RSCharlton @MikeWingerii No they aren’t—Philip Payne is wrong on this and I’m disappointed. It is in every extant manuscript. Scribes recognized it wasn’t Paul’s words so they marked it or added notes...

@Crystalisives @NarnianAttorney @William34772026 @RSCharlton @MikeWingerii No they aren’t—Philip Payne is wrong on this and I’m disappointed. It is in every extant manuscript. Scribes recognized it wa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Crystalisives @RSCharlton @NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii There's something special here because abuse of authority should a universal "no" for both males and females. Something is specific here to "a woman" which v14 specifies by "the woman" as a sp...

@Crystalisives @RSCharlton @NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii There's something special here because abuse of authority should a universal "no" for both males and females. Something is specific here to "a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Torncurtainorg @theologicaljoe @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You are attempting to draw a prohibition from a "let's see if we can find a single woman preacher in the NT"⎯ you cannot take narrative or description and form prohibition from that. We don't ha...

@Torncurtainorg @theologicaljoe @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You are attempting to draw a prohibition from a "let's see if we can find a single woman preacher in the NT"⎯ you cannot take narrative or descr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@peace_got @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Timothy and Titus say essentially the same thing. Who wrote Ruth? Who wrote Esther? Who wrote Hebrews? Deborah was a judge and prophet. Junia was an ordinary (not foundational) apostle. No one is saying that ...

@peace_got @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Timothy and Titus say essentially the same thing. Who wrote Ruth? Who wrote Esther? Who wrote Hebrews? Deborah was a judge and prophet. Junia was an ordinary (

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@RSCharlton @NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii Neat magic trick. So you just eliminated all secondary issues by quipping “sola scriptura”? I believe sola scriptura too. That verse is in the context of stopping false teaching, not stopping anyone from te...

@RSCharlton @NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii Neat magic trick. So you just eliminated all secondary issues by quipping “sola scriptura”? I believe sola scriptura too. That verse is in the context of st

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@NarnianAttorney You are presuming the complementarian reading of a few passages. There is no prohibition of female pastors for one, and 1Ti 2:12 is dealing with false teaching from a specific woman in Ephesus whom Paul was not naming to protect her;...

@NarnianAttorney You are presuming the complementarian reading of a few passages. There is no prohibition of female pastors for one, and 1Ti 2:12 is dealing with false teaching from a specific woman i

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii No, you aren't understanding. We disagree with complementarians, not with God. If I was in rebellion against God, I would repent. You are treating this issue as primary. And this is the problem I have with Mike's advic...

@NarnianAttorney @MikeWingerii No, you aren't understanding. We disagree with complementarians, not with God. If I was in rebellion against God, I would repent. You are treating this issue as primary

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-03

Mike says a woman can informally teach men theology, correct them, post somethin

Mike says a woman can informally teach men theology, correct them, post something to correct on social media, etc. He says that since Priscilla did it, then it's ok. [2:57:00] Mike keeps narrowing d

1Ti 2:12 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@lylgrymy A book club? I was referring to the Bible...not an ordinary book.

@lylgrymy A book club? I was referring to the Bible...not an ordinary book.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-25

It's honestly frightening to see how pastors who have taken extensive seminary training and have pastored congregations for years regularly take scripture so out of context. @PastorMark says here that if a man isn't the one out in the workforce, then...

It's honestly frightening to see how pastors who have taken extensive seminary training and have pastored congregations for years regularly take scripture so out of context. @PastorMark says here that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-22

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel Hi Tom. She’s not imaginary. Paul’s not naming her as a way of showing grace 1Ti 1:13 (he names and marks those who teach false doctrines with knowledge, 1Ti 1:19-20). Because it’s a personal letter to Timothy, what Paul said ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel Hi Tom. She’s not imaginary. Paul’s not naming her as a way of showing grace 1Ti 1:13 (he names and marks those who teach false doctrines with knowledge, 1Ti 1:19-20). Because

1Ti 1:13 1Ti 1:19-20 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 So it’s not about rotten apples, tigers or pennies—all things Ron uses to distract you from how *Paul* is using this anarthrous in his personal letter to Timothy. And Ron knows full well that Paul *can* use it to refer to someo...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 So it’s not about rotten apples, tigers or pennies—all things Ron uses to distract you from how *Paul* is using this anarthrous in his personal letter to Timothy. And Ron knows

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 And by using the article in verse 14 “the woman” Paul says something that cannot apply to Eve since the “she will be saved” in 1Ti 2:15 is future tense. We know then this use of the article is anaphorically pointing to the anar...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 And by using the article in verse 14 “the woman” Paul says something that cannot apply to Eve since the “she will be saved” in 1Ti 2:15 is future tense. We know then this use of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning There are also female leaders mentioned in his epistles. Read Rom 16 again. Priscilla taught Apollos and had a church in her home and went on missionary journeys with Paul. Sure she...

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning There are also female leaders mentioned in his epistles. Read Rom 16 again. Priscilla taught Apollos and had a church in her home a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@freedom4alltime You are certainly right that we have narcissistic and self-serv

@freedom4alltime You are certainly right that we have narcissistic and self-serving women…and MEN in the church. It affects both, I’m afraid. Let’s all grow up and mature in Christ.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-06

@ApostolicSage @William_E_Wolfe Thanks for the Greek lesson. I have Logos Bible software so I have no problem searching for every variation of the dictionary form. You should also know that just because a noun is masculine doesn't mean that it appli...

@ApostolicSage @William_E_Wolfe Thanks for the Greek lesson. I have Logos Bible software so I have no problem searching for every variation of the dictionary form. You should also know that just beca

1 Tim 3:1 general