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Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-23

Are Womens Gifts To Be Used Outside The Church

In my blog entry called “ Are women’s gifts secondary. ” I documented the complementarian teaching that women’s gifts are secondary to men’s gifts and that women to use their gifts outside the church

1 Corinthians 14:23 1 Corinthians 14:26 1 Corinthians 14:31 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-17

Are Womens Gifts Secondary

Last post we referenced 1 Corinthians 12:7 teaching us that the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good of the body of Christ. But are women’s gifts somehow secondary

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 6:3 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-04

Paul Refutes A Faulty Tradition

In the last post we discussed that the man is the image and glory of God and Christ is his head. Why does Paul emphasize that the man is the image and glory of God but he says nothing about the woman having God’s glory

1 Corinthians 11:4 1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Corinthians 11:9 1 Corinthians 11 Genesis & Creation
Scripture Commentary article 2007-06-17

Shaming The Head 1

1 Corinthians 11:4-6 lists three “shames” and verse 7 lists two glories. Two of these shames and glories relate directly back to the “head” and one shame relates to the person themselves

1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:4 1 Corinthians 11:4-6 1 Corinthians 11
Scripture Commentary article 2007-05-27

1 Corinthians 113 And Head

In the last post I summarized the foundational points from chapter 10 that is necessary to the understanding of chapter 11. If you haven’t read it already, it can be read by clicking here

1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Corinthians 11 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-05-16

Paul And The Head From 1 Corinthians 11

1 Corinthians 11 has been a hotly disputed passage regarding the meaning of “head”

1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-15

The Case Of The Battling Proof Texts Part Two

In part one, we discussed the fact that the Bible does not contradict itself so when a complementarian has a “proof text” that is used to prove that women are not allowed to teach the Bible to men, they must also deal with the apparent contradictions of this view. Here are some of the contradiction

1 Timothy 2:12 Acts 18:26 1 Timothy 2 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-27

Why Was Adams Sin More Serious Than The Sin Of Eve Part Two

While we have seen from part one that Adam’s sin was said to have been a deliberate transgression of the covenant and as a result it was a treacherous act against God (Hosea 6:7) where does that leave the seriousness of Eve’s sin

1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 2:14 Genesis 1 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-21

Why Was The Sin Of Adam More Serious Than The Sin Of Eve Part One

While some believe that Adam was the representative head of the human race and merely brought sin into the world because he was “head” (i. e

1 Timothy 2:13 Hosea 6:7 Numbers 15:30 1 Timothy 2 Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-07

Does God Have One Unique Law Part Two

Complementarians have stated that God has a law that forbids godly Christian women from teaching correct biblical doctrine to men. This law, they say, is revealed in 1 Timothy 2:12

1 Timothy 2:11 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:15 1 Timothy 2 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-02

What Does 1 Timothy 211 15 Mean

I was challenged to present my view of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 on another blog and I thought it would be good to summarize my view on my own blog. Here is the teaching from “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free

1 Timothy 1:11-15 1 Timothy 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-22

Could The Messiah Have Been A Woman

Since God is neither male nor female, some have suggested that the Messiah could have been born a female. I would respectfully like to differ with that view

1 Corinthians 15:45 1 Samuel 15:23 1 Timothy 2:14 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-11

Husband As The Priest Of The Home

With the push towards defining biblical manhood and womanhood, often men are pressured into a leadership role where they feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities. Probably none more stressful than the title given to them as “Priest of the home”

1 Corinthians 6:3 1 Peter 2:5 1 Peter 2:9 Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary article 2006-09-23

Can Complementarians Agree To Disagree

I sent a copy of our DVD “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free. ” to the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in February of 2006 and this summer I finally received a response

John 3:4 John 3:6 Lamentations 6:1 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-22

Thankfully, the Bible doesn’t teach this. God elects what is to become of those

Thankfully, the Bible doesn’t teach this. God elects what is to become of those who trust in Christ but not who will have faith. Faith is not a work. It is an expression of weakness to save oneself an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-03-21

@Crystalisives @fab1usger @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I understand why you block early. Social media is hard. I don’t think people either talk the way they write or would treat women the way they write here even for the ones who are strongly complementa...

@Crystalisives @fab1usger @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I understand why you block early. Social media is hard. I don’t think people either talk the way they write or would treat women the way they write h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-12-04

@Penjammin @Latterdaytruth The one who isn’t a created being. The one who wasn’t once “an intelligence” waiting to be organized. The one who never progressed to Godhood. The one who has eternally been God. The one who didn’t receive authority from me...

@Penjammin @Latterdaytruth The one who isn’t a created being. The one who wasn’t once “an intelligence” waiting to be organized. The one who never progressed to Godhood. The one who has eternally been

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-09

@TheGermanicist The Trinity is the logical conclusion of what the scripture stat

@TheGermanicist The Trinity is the logical conclusion of what the scripture states. Also, “No one has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.” (Jn 6:46) https://t.co/9

Jn 6:46 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi Catholic means universal. Roman Catholic, the one that

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi Catholic means universal. Roman Catholic, the one that prays to dead saints, venerates them, uses relics, believes in pergatory, etc is not the universal church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-14

@restoredkgdm @rightresponsem I meant Paul, the one you quoted. Yes, the person

@restoredkgdm @rightresponsem I meant Paul, the one you quoted. Yes, the person who killed Charlie is guilty and should be charged.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-13

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The one in Acts and the corrections and details offered in the Epistles. Remember how Paul said: “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; a...

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The one in Acts and the corrections and details offered in the Epistles. Remember how Paul said: “I know that after my departure savage wolve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-13

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The only early church t

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The only early church that matters is the one documented in scripture. That church didn’t practice it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-11

@BishopJaxi Keep reading… “The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh provi

@BishopJaxi Keep reading… “The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh provides no benefit; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.” (Jn 6:63)

Jn 6:63 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-10

@ryancduff I know. Yet here’s the catch: they think that head means the authorit

@ryancduff I know. Yet here’s the catch: they think that head means the authority over, the boss of, the one that makes all the decisions. Yet ‘head’ is only used in the context of marriage and never

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-09

@McMuffin11111 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Well, if you are going to be the one to vote and teach the Bible, you should at least not take scripture out of context. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctri...

@McMuffin11111 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Well, if you are going to be the one to vote and teach the Bible, you should at least not take scripture out of context. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose 1Co 11:3 refers to the head of ‘every man.’ The Greek word here is aner but I believe it is referring to everyone, male and female. Clearly, the head of every person is Jesus because Jesus is the creator of all...

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose 1Co 11:3 refers to the head of ‘every man.’ The Greek word here is aner but I believe it is referring to everyone, male and female. Clearly, the head of every p

1Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose No. God cannot cease to be God, but the second person added human nature to His nature as God. To become man He gave up His right to initiate. He had to depend on the Father. The scripture is ...

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose No. God cannot cease to be God, but the second person added human nature to His nature as God. To become man He gave up His right to initiate.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@wilson_mar11767 @refiners_forge @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii While I

@wilson_mar11767 @refiners_forge @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii While I disagree with Andy on things, Mike is the one twisting scripture on this subject. I’ve watched all 43 hours of his serie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@refiners_forge @wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii Mike’s w

@refiners_forge @wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii Mike’s work on kephale was unfortunately all smoke and mirrors. He’s actually the one playing a trick and he’s tricked a lot of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Christ as kephale (head) is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished

Christ as kephale (head) is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished, held together. The life of the church flows from Christ as its source of spiritual life, grace, unity, and purpose. W

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-08

@StothersRyan @Svigel My point is that the elders are not supposed to be the one’s constraining the body. They are treating themselves as the priority, and it is not supposed to be that way. Their purpose is to grow, teach, correct…not determine what...

@StothersRyan @Svigel My point is that the elders are not supposed to be the one’s constraining the body. They are treating themselves as the priority, and it is not supposed to be that way. Their pur

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

Complementarians say God gave Adam authority over Eve—and by extension, husbands over wives. But Adam was the one who failed (Ro 5:12). He wasn’t deceived, yet didn’t guard the garden or his own flesh, Eve. If failed shepherds are removed, why woul...

Complementarians say God gave Adam authority over Eve—and by extension, husbands over wives. But Adam was the one who failed (Ro 5:12). He wasn’t deceived, yet didn’t guard the garden or his own fles

Ro 5:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actions don't correspond to the idea of restricting wom...

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actio

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But if 'head' means 'the boss of' and 'the one

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But if 'head' means 'the boss of' and 'the one responsible for others', you don't think an apostle, prophet, judge, elder, overseer, pastor⎯anyone at all had responsib

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-24

@Prov_Standards Adam wasn’t created as the only one with a brain, or the only one who could work or teach or protect. That is a complete misunderstanding of God’s intent. The idea of Adam as head is of being the one who in creation was more prominen...

@Prov_Standards Adam wasn’t created as the only one with a brain, or the only one who could work or teach or protect. That is a complete misunderstanding of God’s intent. The idea of Adam as head is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-15

@TonyG_in_LV It seems that in this way it adopted unbiblical concepts which are

@TonyG_in_LV It seems that in this way it adopted unbiblical concepts which are explicitly opposed in scripture and completely missed the ones that were there. But this issue related to kephale/head s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@ncksmith Christ as kephalē is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nouris

@ncksmith Christ as kephalē is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished, held together. The life of the church flows from Christ as its source of spiritual life, grace, unity, and purpose.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Paul says it was because he wasn’t de

@MarqueStuddock @BronWen727104 @smashbaals Paul says it was because he wasn’t deceived not because of being the boss. Culpability goes to the one who knows better but does nothing, not because he was

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick What is so wrong with a mutually submissi

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick What is so wrong with a mutually submissive relationship? It works just fine. In fact, it seems most of the complementarians practice it even though they claim t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Head or kephale in Greek, an anatomical term, is used instead of authority or boss or decision maker because the word refers to the one who both came first and was the source (flesh and bone) from which E...

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Head or kephale in Greek, an anatomical term, is used instead of authority or boss or decision maker because the word refers to the one who both came firs

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann repeating yourself again? I get that insecure patriarchal types love tossing around slurs like ‘beta’ and ‘cuck,’ but parroting playground insults doesn’t make them righteous. I already follow the true Christ — the one...

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann repeating yourself again? I get that insecure patriarchal types love tossing around slurs like ‘beta’ and ‘cuck,’ but parroting playground insults doesn’t make them righ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@that_foot_is_me The concern is that this one-sided attitude tends to foster entitlement in the husband and keep him from maturing. They tend to stress that this doesn’t mean you abuse your wife—but the fact that needs to be stated is because of the ...

@that_foot_is_me The concern is that this one-sided attitude tends to foster entitlement in the husband and keep him from maturing. They tend to stress that this doesn’t mean you abuse your wife—but t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-23

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel Yes, “taught of God” is passive—it means God is the one

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel Yes, “taught of God” is passive—it means God is the one doing the teaching. Being “taught by God” still requires hearing and learning (Jn 6:45), which are active responses.

Jn 6:45 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-21

@ronhenzel want it would reoffend to get back in prison. It would be pointless. Perhaps the one who didn’t want to be freed changes his mind once freed and is glad but we don’t see this progression in scripture. Even in the case of the demoniacs, it ...

@ronhenzel want it would reoffend to get back in prison. It would be pointless. Perhaps the one who didn’t want to be freed changes his mind once freed and is glad but we don’t see this progression in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-21

@ronhenzel What I see scripture teaching is that we are captured in a prison to sin and death. We can want out of this prison but we can’t free ourselves. We are helpless. Some don’t want out. But some do. If someone came and freed everyone—even thos...

@ronhenzel What I see scripture teaching is that we are captured in a prison to sin and death. We can want out of this prison but we can’t free ourselves. We are helpless. Some don’t want out. But som

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ I'm not redefining kephale to mean something else. I'm asking of each text what sense the author intended by using this word. What makes you think that Jesus' intention is to be the 'boss of' His bride? Jesus is the cr...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ I'm not redefining kephale to mean something else. I'm asking of each text what sense the author intended by using this word. What makes you think that Jesus' intention

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@NateSchlomann 3) The historic church that is what we test against is the one de

@NateSchlomann 3) The historic church that is what we test against is the one described in scripture. We do not use the history of the church after scripture as a test for truth. https://t.co/13N7kET3

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@marcminter On the one hand, I can understand your perspective because people fr

@marcminter On the one hand, I can understand your perspective because people frequently mishandle and misinterpret scripture. So you are right to be suspicious. Also, anyone who believes the Bible te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@sola_chad Faith is not a work but is contrasted with works. In fact, faith is a

@sola_chad Faith is not a work but is contrasted with works. In fact, faith is an admission of weakness and inability to save oneself and a declaration of trust and confidence in the one who is able.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-04

@HippieReligious The apostles never had the mass where they said specific rituals at an altar and the wafer was transformed into the body. The one I last saw the priest drank all the wine and left none for home else. That’s literally what some did i...

@HippieReligious The apostles never had the mass where they said specific rituals at an altar and the wafer was transformed into the body. The one I last saw the priest drank all the wine and left no

1Co 11:17-22 general
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