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Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-20

Adam As Head Of The Family

It is common for hierarchists to say that Adam was Eve’s head not because he was her source, but because he had authority over her. While the teaching that Adam was Eve’s ruler before the fall of man is unsubstantiated, the fact that Adam was the source of Eve is foundational to the doctrine of the

Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve

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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

Adam As Head Of The Family

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

“Reformed theology does teach double predestination…it’s double or nothing really, you can’t have single predestination and just ignore the non-elect unless you are a universalist.” —RC Sproul Yes, electing only some to receive faith to be saved mea...

@ronhenzel @GloryIsGods777 @GatorRob777 Faith is only one item in a list of things ‘necessary for salvation’? Ron, is a person saved when they believe—or only after they have been sanctified and glorified? You’re conflating what God does for those w...

@GloryIsGods777 @ronhenzel @GatorRob777 Scripture doesn’t word it quite that way

@GloryIsGods777 @ronhenzel @GatorRob777 Faith is not a work or a payment: it is

@ronhenzel @CauseToKnow @RBM7211 @stablecross You and I are claiming to believe the same scriptures so it’s our explanation that is the debate. So if we have all the contingencies you noted: - the preached gospel - gift of faith - sovereign acts of ...

@stablecross @herrkunstler @CauseToKnow @RBM7211 @ronhenzel Because they didn’t

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Suggesting a woman cannot teach truth to men or pastor is not heresy. Heresy is stuff JWs and LDS teach—stuff related to primary matters of the faith, the nature of God, the deity of Jesus...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge No, Hos 2 and Ezek 23 don’t use she and they interchangeably as referring to the same referent. Here’s why. In Hos 2, the pronouns clearly distinguish between two related but separate referents. The singular she/her r...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok so let’s see if I’m tracking: a typical woman

“The faith was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). The Bible welcomes seeking truth, but it also warns against seeking knowledge that denies what God already revealed: “If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with soun...

@limedoorstudio The BOM early on in 1 Nephi has God telling Nehi and Lehi to flee Jerusalem to the Americas when Jeremiah’s prophecy was that all including the wild animals and even all the faithful prophets were to submit to the king of Babylon and ...

In 1 Co 9:23 Paul says he disciplines himself “so that I may be a partaker of th

@TheologyLiz Yeah, that’s good. The issue of course is that if regeneration is f

This would mean you are saved by predestined regeneration and not faith. Faith t

@parabellum7711 @DoulosDean68 This issue is not a matter of heresy. Heresy has t

@ronhenzel @sola_chad To claim that Calvinism is the only faithful way to read Scripture is disingenuous. One can arrive at a different conclusion without denying the authority of Scripture. The plain reading doesn’t require that God selectively rege...

@Geeekaholic @rightresponsem No one is saved apart from faith in Christ. That Go

@Ptr_StephenFein You are right that just being in the hall of faith doesn’t mean there are no failings (which we see with Samson and Jepthah), yet the author deliberately includes Barak despite this being his only record in scripture as one who “thro...

@BeRegener8ed @rightresponsem You are right that just being in the hall of faith doesn’t mean there are no failings (which we see with Samson), yet the author deliberately includes Barak despite this being his only record in scripture as one who “thr...

@LifeGetsButter @grok @hmcrem If Barak lacked courage, have you considered what

@GuitSmart @JustinPetersMin Strange as scripture frames Barak’s behaviour as fai

@Ptr_StephenFein Well now that’s strange that scripture calls Deborah the judge

@JanZizkasburner @rightresponsem Well, Heb 11:32 settles the question: “And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets…” Barak is listed among those who “through f...

@BeRegener8ed @rightresponsem Strange, that’s not how the author to the Hebrews

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but y

@HvacRoar24011 There was always a mixed multitude including in the church where

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Yes, salvation is by faith and that has

@DerekStephanBro @YesThatCollin @rightresponsem All the apostles minus one were

@autocorrect2_0 @Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz What are you being cut off of then? Paul is speaking to the Gentiles and saying they will be cut off just like the natural branches, the Jews, those who also didn’t continue in faith. “…if...

@autocorrect2_0 @Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz This is patently and probably false. Paul 👉 “They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branc...

@The_Home_Six I understand it that people want to be faithful to scripture and t

@cpiisbs @MattWalshBlog That translation does not accurately reflect the Greek and therefore obfuscates Paul's meaning. The grammar is literally "She (singular) will be saved through the childbearing (definite noun) if they (plural) continue in faith...

If you neglect what is being said for every Christian, you risk making the same

@CFlow1992 I’m not denying that grace is central to the New Testament. But calling Calvinism ‘the doctrines of grace’ frames one specific theological system as the only faithful reading when in fact, it teaches that God withholds saving grace from mo...

@VirgilWalkerOMA ...deceived, yet he needs to be part of her being brought to sa

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Paul says the woman was deceived, not the man (1Ti 2:14). She believed false teaching and needed correction and salvation (v15). He was not deceived. So Paul doesn’t say they are both in need of salvation, but that her salvat...

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Trying to make 1Ti 2:15 into typology of Christ overrides Paul’s grammar and context. The verse speaks of a specific woman’s salvation contingent on “they” (she and her husband?) continuing in faith. It’s practical hope, not h...

@JeffHow82493818 @dalepartridge @JCRyle Yes it is a distraction because the teac

Regeneration doesn’t supersede the call to remain. John the Baptist preached “f

@darylsterk Paul’s letter to Timothy is explicitly to stop strange doctrines clouding the gospel of salvation which is by faith from spreading at the church in Ephesus. While it is certainly possible that more is going on here as you describe, I am n...

@darylsterk Sorry, I just saw this now. There are certainly false teachings and myths that were coming in. Paul’s explicitly statements suggest Jewish myths: “…myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to useless speculation rather than advanc...

@PeterNDecker @BrandonABourg @sister_slay If you believe (as I do) that James is describing the kind of faith and not adding works to faith, then you should be appalled by the statement “…after all we can do.” You should demand your church to rescin...

@PeterNDecker @BrandonABourg @sister_slay I’m glad that you believe and claim that your faith is in God. That being the case, it is important to identify which God we are speaking about. Given that Joseph Smith was the founder of the LDS church, if t...

@PeterNDecker @ModChristChurch @sister_slay What you are describing is clearly grace + works. In the Bible, faith is contrasted with works. Grace is a gift given to every single human but it must be accepted. If you are human, you qualify! Faith is ...

@PeterNDecker @sister_slay Also, LDS adds works to Jesus work, but the Bible dec

@PeterNDecker @ModChristChurch @sister_slay But their witness doesn't hold water if they later left the faith, rejected Joseph Smith, only saw them in a vision (that's not an eye witness). They are not like the apostles who all died for proclaiming t...

@ModChristChurch @PeterNDecker @sister_slay They claimed that they did and some claimed to have seen them, but several claimed to have seen them only in a vision or supernaturally...and I think 8 of them left the church! If this was such an important...

@sister_slay The wildest misconception is that the LDS faith is Christian. Some

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