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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-16

Here's a more recent response specific to 1 Tim 2:12 that summarizes the meaning

Here's a more recent response specific to 1 Tim 2:12 that summarizes the meaning that Paul was intending, drawing on the context and specific grammar he uses. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

1 Tim 2:12 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-15

@ronhenzel This is judicial hardening so that they will experience the result of their attitude. If this is how they were born, then why would God have to harden them? “And when they disagreed with one another, they began leaving after Paul said on...

@ronhenzel This is judicial hardening so that they will experience the result of their attitude. If this is how they were born, then why would God have to harden them? “And when they disagreed with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

RT @ryanschatz: @JackAllLanterns @ljlovinglife74 @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Don't

RT @ryanschatz: @JackAllLanterns @ljlovinglife74 @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Don't be so quick to write off Paul. Not only did Jesus meet him…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

@pauldirks Not sure if you saw this response, but I addressed this a while ago i

@pauldirks Not sure if you saw this response, but I addressed this a while ago in the following post also. https://t.co/LITAuZp8Pk

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

@JackAllLanterns @ljlovinglife74 @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Don't be so quick to write off Paul. Not only did Jesus meet him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:3-6), but Paul claims that Jesus revealed the gospel to him in Gal 1:11-12. In 1 Cor 11:23-25...

@JackAllLanterns @ljlovinglife74 @NBidnz @harmonizedgrace Don't be so quick to write off Paul. Not only did Jesus meet him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:3-6), but Paul claims that Jesus revealed th

Gal 1:11-12 1 Cor 11:23-25 Acts 9:3-6 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

@pauldirks It depends what you mean by “Lord”—if you are thinking of it as “master,” then no. Neither was Abraham Sarah’s master. After Peter says Sarah called Abraham lord, verse 7 says “you husbands **in the same way**.” Therefore as Sarah gave ...

@pauldirks It depends what you mean by “Lord”—if you are thinking of it as “master,” then no. Neither was Abraham Sarah’s master. After Peter says Sarah called Abraham lord, verse 7 says “you husban

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

RT @ryanschatz: @pauldirks @PerinDana I am glad that you agree there is mutual s

RT @ryanschatz: @pauldirks @PerinDana I am glad that you agree there is mutual submission as that is there in the text. As for the asymmet…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

RT @ryanschatz: @PerinDana @pauldirks I’m glad you asked again about this verse,

RT @ryanschatz: @PerinDana @pauldirks I’m glad you asked again about this verse, Paul. Many are hung up on this phrase as we consider this…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

@elyie_bliss @BBWoofield @harmonizedgrace First you have to ask the question if they are misinterpreting Paul. Paul wrote half of the New Testament, so it's a bit disingenuous to discount Paul's writing. Paul clearly wrote scripture, but if you cal...

@elyie_bliss @BBWoofield @harmonizedgrace First you have to ask the question if they are misinterpreting Paul. Paul wrote half of the New Testament, so it's a bit disingenuous to discount Paul's writ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

@imanii4u @drbrudd Yes, you have noted a clear problem with his interpretation h

@imanii4u @drbrudd Yes, you have noted a clear problem with his interpretation here. If we instead understand v34-35 as Paul quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (ie. 1 Cor 7:1), then this re

1 Cor 7:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

@AleahPursley Hi Aleah! Thanks for the question. The following is how inparsed

@AleahPursley Hi Aleah! Thanks for the question. The following is how inparsednout what I think Paul is getting at in Ephesians 5. Let me know if you want to explore something further. https://t.co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-12

@liquid_danno I finally got through Payne's book. I find he says some good things and some very strange things. - His argument on 1 Cor 14:34-35 being an addition to the text⎯which does align with the idea that Paul is quoting from the Corinthian l...

@liquid_danno I finally got through Payne's book. I find he says some good things and some very strange things. - His argument on 1 Cor 14:34-35 being an addition to the text⎯which does align with t

1 Cor 14:34-35 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-07

@paulogia0 There’s a difference between purchasing a fully paid for gift card an

@paulogia0 There’s a difference between purchasing a fully paid for gift card and giving it to every human being and then cashing it in. Jesus says that He died for Judas too. But Judas didn’t belie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-06

RT @ryanschatz: @MaxLuder @MarkGrote @JollyStine You don't get requirements by i

RT @ryanschatz: @MaxLuder @MarkGrote @JollyStine You don't get requirements by inferring intention. Paul includes women in vs11. However,…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-06

@MaxLuder @MarkGrote @JollyStine You don't get requirements by inferring intention. Paul includes women in vs11. However, there's a big difference between including and forbidding. For example, there are only two people explicitly called elders in...

@MaxLuder @MarkGrote @JollyStine You don't get requirements by inferring intention. Paul includes women in vs11. However, there's a big difference between including and forbidding. For example, the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

@AngEngland The first slide makes it appear I’m against women speaking, but I’m

@AngEngland The first slide makes it appear I’m against women speaking, but I’m showing how this is a false view and how Paul is liberating women from being silenced.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

@at_M_J_F_ @heaveniscallin1 @FrMatthewLC Rather, I’m working hard to demonstrate what the plain meaning of the text is by carefully considering everything in the grammar, context and how Paul applies it in his own life. When Paul is clear in Galatia...

@at_M_J_F_ @heaveniscallin1 @FrMatthewLC Rather, I’m working hard to demonstrate what the plain meaning of the text is by carefully considering everything in the grammar, context and how Paul applies

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

@MikeWingerii Finally, most complementarians see 1 Tim 3:1-13 and Tit 1:5-9 as clearly requiring male leadership. But if this is the case: - Why does Paul use τὶς in v1 which means “someone” or “anyone”? Why didn’t he specify a male, or ἀνήρ? - I...

@MikeWingerii Finally, most complementarians see 1 Tim 3:1-13 and Tit 1:5-9 as clearly requiring male leadership. But if this is the case: - Why does Paul use τὶς in v1 which means “someone” or “any

Tit 1:5-9 1 Tim 3:1-13 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

As @MikeWingerii stated in his video series, how we see Genesis 2-3 is 99% of the debate! Mike sees Paul’s deliberate connection of the creation order with deception, but why isn’t he willing to entertain the idea that Adam wasn’t deceived because o...

As @MikeWingerii stated in his video series, how we see Genesis 2-3 is 99% of the debate! Mike sees Paul’s deliberate connection of the creation order with deception, but why isn’t he willing to ente

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

Reading 1 Tim 2:11-15 carefully in context we see that Paul’s focus is Timothy and how he ought to be have in the Church of God in handling false teaching. Read chapter 1⎯how Paul refers to the purpose of stopping false teachers and their teaching f...

Reading 1 Tim 2:11-15 carefully in context we see that Paul’s focus is Timothy and how he ought to be have in the Church of God in handling false teaching. Read chapter 1⎯how Paul refers to the purpo

1 Tim 2:11-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

In 1 Cor 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from the letter that the Corinthians wrote (see 1 Cor 7:1) and using the contrastive “or” (which is typical of Paul) to rhetorically refute it: “What? Came the word of God out from you [men]? Or came it unto you [me...

In 1 Cor 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from the letter that the Corinthians wrote (see 1 Cor 7:1) and using the contrastive “or” (which is typical of Paul) to rhetorically refute it: “What? Came the word

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Cor 14:36 1 Cor 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-04

@Nathanor582613 @WomnOfValor Thanks for the comment. - Paul is clearly responding to the letter from the Corinthians (see 1 Cor 7:1). Since there are no quotes in the original manuscripts, how do we know where Paul is quoting? - Paul refers to the l...

@Nathanor582613 @WomnOfValor Thanks for the comment. - Paul is clearly responding to the letter from the Corinthians (see 1 Cor 7:1). Since there are no quotes in the original manuscripts, how do we

1 Cor 7:1 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-04

@BiffSport @JJacobs63985241 @WomnOfValor Explaining what Paul himself wrote using the context, grammar, audience—no detail left unmapped—and you call that twisting?? Why? Because I love truth! Look, if you think as a male you have primacy, then ac...

@BiffSport @JJacobs63985241 @WomnOfValor Explaining what Paul himself wrote using the context, grammar, audience—no detail left unmapped—and you call that twisting?? Why? Because I love truth! Look

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-04

@BiffSport @JJacobs63985241 @WomnOfValor No I didn’t mean that he can’t read 1 Cor 7:1. There are no quotes in the oldest Greek manuscripts. It all has to be inferred from the context. John misses this one completely. Otherwise Paul is contradict...

@BiffSport @JJacobs63985241 @WomnOfValor No I didn’t mean that he can’t read 1 Cor 7:1. There are no quotes in the oldest Greek manuscripts. It all has to be inferred from the context. John misses

1 Cor 7:1 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-04

@WomnOfValor John MacArthur for all his learning has no idea that Paul since chapter 7 has been responding to things that the Corinthians wrote in their letter to him. He quotes them and then refutes them: “What? came the word of God out from you[m...

@WomnOfValor John MacArthur for all his learning has no idea that Paul since chapter 7 has been responding to things that the Corinthians wrote in their letter to him. He quotes them and then refutes

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-04

@Thygar @masonmennenga Paul put Christians to death. That’s not on my rap sheet. "even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy **because I acted ignorantly in unbelief**; and the grace o...

@Thygar @masonmennenga Paul put Christians to death. That’s not on my rap sheet. "even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy **because

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@augsburg1580 @JonnyRoot_ Paul is correcting your misinterpretation of what he s

@augsburg1580 @JonnyRoot_ Paul is correcting your misinterpretation of what he said in his letters? Excellent.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@Ken_FiveSolas @megbasham John MacArthur completely misinterprets 1 Cor 14:34-35 as he doesn’t recognize that Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1 Cor 7:1). Paul quotes and then refutes them: "What? came the word of Go...

@Ken_FiveSolas @megbasham John MacArthur completely misinterprets 1 Cor 14:34-35 as he doesn’t recognize that Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1 Cor 7:1). Paul quotes

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Cor 7:1 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@The_SergeMG @smashbaals No, that is incorrect. It is contested as it appears to contradict what Paul writes elsewhere in 1 Cor 14 to start. When your interpretation has Paul contradicting himself then you should revisit your interpretation. Paul ...

@The_SergeMG @smashbaals No, that is incorrect. It is contested as it appears to contradict what Paul writes elsewhere in 1 Cor 14 to start. When your interpretation has Paul contradicting himself t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@PubliusJosephus @smashbaals Yes to Paul and the apostles. The rest don’t matte

@PubliusJosephus @smashbaals Yes to Paul and the apostles. The rest don’t matter as the foundation is on scripture.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@reformedbapty @smashbaals Paul was both an elder and an apostle (Peter identifi

@reformedbapty @smashbaals Paul was both an elder and an apostle (Peter identified himself as an elder, see 1 Pet 5:1). If Paul was single and advocated for singleness (1 Cor 7) and didn’t have child

1 Pet 5:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@smashbaals Women are unqualified by an immutable characteristic? This sounds like going back to slavery to the law… "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." (Gal 5...

@smashbaals Women are unqualified by an immutable characteristic? This sounds like going back to slavery to the law… "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do

Gal 5:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-03

@smashbaals Maybe you are having trouble reading the Bible in context. No scholar would take one of the most contested passages and call it “clear.” Think about this: why do women need to be silent in church? Is it to protect vulnerable, weak men ...

@smashbaals Maybe you are having trouble reading the Bible in context. No scholar would take one of the most contested passages and call it “clear.” Think about this: why do women need to be silent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@MarkGrote @Peacemaker811 @HbitsO @BethMooreLPM This assumes authentein means “usurp authority”—are men allowed to do that but women are not? Men are allowed hostile takeovers inspired by geneologies and false understanding of the law? Paul wasn’t ...

@MarkGrote @Peacemaker811 @HbitsO @BethMooreLPM This assumes authentein means “usurp authority”—are men allowed to do that but women are not? Men are allowed hostile takeovers inspired by geneologies

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@JonnyRoot_ Did you realize that forbidding what God does not forbid is referred to by Paul as “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim 4:1-5)? There is nothing in scripture forbidding a godly woman from teaching true doctrine to anyone, nor from being a sheph...

@JonnyRoot_ Did you realize that forbidding what God does not forbid is referred to by Paul as “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim 4:1-5)? There is nothing in scripture forbidding a godly woman from teachi

1 Tim 4:1-5 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@3HillsMinor @graceforprize @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Paul says “a woman” or “a wife” (which it is has to be determined by the context) and later says “the woman” in verse 14. This is an anaphoric use of the article back to “a woman”...

@3HillsMinor @graceforprize @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Paul says “a woman” or “a wife” (which it is has to be determined by the context) and later says “the woman” in verse 14. This is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@kelcy_lowry @MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ The idea that godly women are *not* prevented from teaching true doctrine or caring for God’s people is what all the cults believe ?? According to 1 Tim 4:1-5, it seems that Paul says that *forbid...

@kelcy_lowry @MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ The idea that godly women are *not* prevented from teaching true doctrine or caring for God’s people is what all the cults believe ?? According to

1 Tim 4:1-5 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ Well, Paul's Greek leads me to my conclusions. He chooses not to use male pronouns but rather τις which means "anyone" or "someone." Further, he doesn't exclude women but says "women likewise..." Forbidding ...

@MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ Well, Paul's Greek leads me to my conclusions. He chooses not to use male pronouns but rather τις which means "anyone" or "someone." Further, he doesn't exclu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT “If a member, listen…” Assuming they are att

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT “If a member, listen…” Assuming they are attending your church regularly and so are not members at another church, are you saying you don’t listen or don’t assist w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl Not having women as elders and counsellors is very unwise, though I understand it is done for theological reasons. However, they still serve in many ways. Using the gifts God gives them for wisdom, counsel and lea...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl Not having women as elders and counsellors is very unwise, though I understand it is done for theological reasons. However, they still serve in many ways. Using th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’m really pleased when I see healthy complementarian churches that let women speak on Sunday mornings and value the gifts and leadership and sacrifice women bring to the church family. If male authority can be rel...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’m really pleased when I see healthy complementarian churches that let women speak on Sunday mornings and value the gifts and leadership and sacrifice women bring t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@DeeGoingsGirl @pauldirks @KaeleyT Great questions!

@DeeGoingsGirl @pauldirks @KaeleyT Great questions!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl Woah, that was a great message Kaeley!!

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl Woah, that was a great message Kaeley!!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT I think if I was a pastor I would wonder what

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT I think if I was a pastor I would wonder what happened in their last church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’ll have to take a look at this Kaeley. Tha

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’ll have to take a look at this Kaeley. Thanks for clarifying, Paul! Glad you responded in this way.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-29

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT 👉 ”[there needs to be recourse] especially for women” 👈 This is the reason for the discussion! Why especially for women? Why does a wife need to have multiple men intimidate her by breathing down her neck to get ...

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT 👉 ”[there needs to be recourse] especially for women” 👈 This is the reason for the discussion! Why especially for women? Why does a wife need to have multiple men

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-29

@dr_andywoods Why isn’t one of the options Priscilla who taught Apollos and joined Paul on his missionary journeys together with her husband Aquila? Given how Paul constantly identified himself in his letters to try to fend off those who were writin...

@dr_andywoods Why isn’t one of the options Priscilla who taught Apollos and joined Paul on his missionary journeys together with her husband Aquila? Given how Paul constantly identified himself in hi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-28

@Omniisnotbussin @MarkGrote Do you have a Jewish male pastor, or are Gentiles allowed? By the same reasoning, women also are not excluded. Regarding 1 Tim 2:12, Paul left Timothy behind in Ephesus to stop false teaching not to stop females from t...

@Omniisnotbussin @MarkGrote Do you have a Jewish male pastor, or are Gentiles allowed? By the same reasoning, women also are not excluded. Regarding 1 Tim 2:12, Paul left Timothy behind in Ephesus

1 Tim 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-24

RT @RyanPauly3: Faith is not blind and it’s not a leap. Here’s what atheists and

RT @RyanPauly3: Faith is not blind and it’s not a leap. Here’s what atheists and Christians misunderstand. Taken from my interview with @gr…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-24

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT If you read "head" as "master" then I can see how you get to this understanding. However, this is not the only sense of keyphale. Because I understand Eph 5:21 describing mutual submission and because I understand...

@pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl @KaeleyT If you read "head" as "master" then I can see how you get to this understanding. However, this is not the only sense of keyphale. Because I understand Eph 5:21 des

Eph 5:21 debate