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@pbcmike98 The equality of the persons of God, the existence of Christ before the incarnation, that they all share the same attributes and that you have to believe that Jesus is God and honor Him as you honor the Father is very clear in scripture. T...

@pbcmike98 The equality of the persons of God, the existence of Christ before the incarnation, that they all share the same attributes and that you have to believe that Jesus is God and honor Him as y

@merelyjwright @pastorpilgrim @RevChrisDavis Was Paul or Timothy a husband? 🤔 O

@merelyjwright @pastorpilgrim @RevChrisDavis Was Paul or Timothy a husband? 🤔 Or do you interpret literally just when it suits what you want?

#SBC's decision to amend in June could oust self-governing, Biblically faithful Baptist churches like FBCA that have had female leaders for 100 years and cooperated with SBC for ages. Putting debatable issues like women in leadership into a statemen...

#SBC's decision to amend in June could oust self-governing, Biblically faithful Baptist churches like FBCA that have had female leaders for 100 years and cooperated with SBC for ages. Putting debatab

@revjeffvox @RevChrisDavis It is showing that they are willing to disfellowship

@revjeffvox @RevChrisDavis It is showing that they are willing to disfellowship a productive and purportedly faithful church over a debatable matter. Barring women from being pastors should never hav

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-08

@Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Idolkiller Jesus’ statement in Mat 26:53 highlights that He chose not to ask for divine intervention. This decision demonstrates His complete obedience and submission to the Father's will, parti...

@Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Idolkiller Jesus’ statement in Mat 26:53 highlights that He chose not to ask for divine intervention. This decision demonstrates His complete ob

Mat 26:53 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-06

@Ericciaramela @DoulosDean68 Hm. But he is misinterpreting Paul.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-06

@DST_QA @Crystalisives I’m taking how Paul is using the term kephale when referr

@DST_QA @Crystalisives I’m taking how Paul is using the term kephale when referring to the relationship between male and female. It’s never authority over. See the following commentary from a complem

1Co 11:3 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-06

@DST_QA @Crystalisives Ephesians 5 is calling both wives and husbands to the sam

@DST_QA @Crystalisives Ephesians 5 is calling both wives and husbands to the same standard of Christ. Take a look at this commentary on 1Co 11:3. https://t.co/CQoDw1dx1n

1Co 11:3 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-05

@albertmohler Paul used an idiom for faithful if married. He didn’t say you must

@albertmohler Paul used an idiom for faithful if married. He didn’t say you must be a husband or have children as Paul and Timothy didn’t meet that requirement, so this is a misreading of Paul’s inten

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-05

The only slippery slope is when you ignore or rebel against what you believe scr

The only slippery slope is when you ignore or rebel against what you believe scripture is clearly teaching or say that Paul didn’t write scripture. Paul clearly didn’t exclude women pastors. https://

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-05

@chopchopcda_ @russle_p2 Is that what you say to your wife in a disagreement, “g

@chopchopcda_ @russle_p2 Is that what you say to your wife in a disagreement, “get behind me Satan”?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-04

@NBidnz Yes, Ja 2:25 uses the term angels for the spies. The question is whether this is what Paul meant in Corinthians. So the idea is that he wants married women to cover their heads and men to uncover them because of spies? And there is no such c...

@NBidnz Yes, Ja 2:25 uses the term angels for the spies. The question is whether this is what Paul meant in Corinthians. So the idea is that he wants married women to cover their heads and men to unco

Ja 2:25 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-04

@thejoshualococo So you are saying Paul wants married women to cover their heads

@thejoshualococo So you are saying Paul wants married women to cover their heads so that messengers from other places won’t be offended?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-04

@SpecterAndBride @LoammiCB @tigereyes1972 @Brian_Sauve First, the text doesn't say that a woman's long hair is her covering but that hair is given as a substitute for coverings (and both men and women generally have hair). Brian says that verse 6 gr...

@SpecterAndBride @LoammiCB @tigereyes1972 @Brian_Sauve First, the text doesn't say that a woman's long hair is her covering but that hair is given as a substitute for coverings (and both men and women

@jacelala Prove me wrong. Married women have two glories: the glory of God (sin

@jacelala Prove me wrong. Married women have two glories: the glory of God (since God created both male and female), and the glory of their husband (symbolically as all marriage points back to the fi

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is not negating his own teaching on covering because he is advocating for not covering and giving women the freedom to decide what to do. Paul says in verse 6 that "If a woman does ...

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Paul is not negating his own teaching on covering because he is advocating for not covering and giving women the freedom to decide what t

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, I am following Paul’s flow of thought. Since we will judge angels then we ought to be able to judge trivial matters of this life, such as whether to cover or not cover our heads whe...

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, I am following Paul’s flow of thought. Since we will judge angels then we ought to be able to judge trivial matters of this life, s

@NBidnz I'm not sure I've heard angels referred to as spies before, but you are right that Judiazers especially were infiltrating the churches and trying to bring them under the law (see Galatians). The thing about angels and head coverings is that ...

@NBidnz I'm not sure I've heard angels referred to as spies before, but you are right that Judiazers especially were infiltrating the churches and trying to bring them under the law (see Galatians).

@MackDonahue @MikeWingerii Also, I'm not asking him to repent of his complementa

@MackDonahue @MikeWingerii Also, I'm not asking him to repent of his complementarian views. He can keep those. I have been part of complementarian churches like Calvary Chapel. What I am asking him t

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Sure, feel free t

@InnovationHQ2 @elijahtmadison @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Sure, feel free to block or ignore me. But please do tell me how it is eisegesis to use Paul's own words in the same letter to interpret

@Manny_Clay1 @TarienCole If other is implied (it is not in the Greek) then it wo

@Manny_Clay1 @TarienCole If other is implied (it is not in the Greek) then it would mean that since Paul is saying there is no custom to cover one's head, then any custom to cover is not practiced. A

@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

@SarahBatdorf In the sense you are referring to, angels would include people. Bu

@SarahBatdorf In the sense you are referring to, angels would include people. But Paul refers to angels in the same letter in a context that explains what he means in ch11. https://t.co/PKTXG8OmZW

1Co 11:10 1Co 6:2-3 question

What does "because of the angels" mean in 1Co 11:10? Many people are confused by Paul's mention of this. The answer lies in what Paul says earlier in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you...

What does "because of the angels" mean in 1Co 11:10? Many people are confused by Paul's mention of this. The answer lies in what Paul says earlier in 1Co 6:2-3: “Or do you not know that the saints w

@JW_Lumley Feel free to correct this translation from the Greek if you think you can prove it got it wrong. BTW, how does nature teach you that there's a difference between the head hair on a male and a female? I can see that my arm and leg hair sto...

@JW_Lumley Feel free to correct this translation from the Greek if you think you can prove it got it wrong. BTW, how does nature teach you that there's a difference between the head hair on a male an

@travispatriarch @LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Question for you Trav

@travispatriarch @LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Question for you Travis, so the women in your church wear head coverings only while praying or prophesying, or at all times?

@c_mosias Hm. Not sure if your reply is a joke or not given your Jamaican transl

@c_mosias Hm. Not sure if your reply is a joke or not given your Jamaican translation. 😂 If you think the ISV got it wrong, feel free to show how from the Greek. Hair doesn’t need to be very long to

@travispatriarch @LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 First: I am very frie

@travispatriarch @LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 First: I am very friendly, so you don't have to worry about that. Second, I am not advocating to violate any scripture for either men or wome

@TarienCole Other is not in the Greek. It should be translated “we have no such

@TarienCole Other is not in the Greek. It should be translated “we have no such practice.”

@elijahtmadison @InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Women who don’t w

@elijahtmadison @InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Women who don’t wear a head covering compete with God? That’s an odd thing to say. Both the man and the woman share the same glory of Go

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-02

@LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The fact that she shames her head assumes she has one, meaning this is referring to married women only. But this shaming that Paul refers to is not the same kind of spiritual shame from the garden, but someth...

@LoammiCB @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 The fact that she shames her head assumes she has one, meaning this is referring to married women only. But this shaming that Paul refers to is not the same k

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-02

@Brandon27614871 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, and many thought similar t

@Brandon27614871 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 Yes, and many thought similar to him. But Luther is not writing scripture and his suggestion women had to veil to show subjection to their husbands is

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-02

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 So, in the translation you provided, the translators inserted the word “other” but that’s not in the Greek. It simply says “no such practice.” The Greek is literally “practice not have.” And no, the chu...

@InnovationHQ2 @SpecterAndBride @tigereyes1972 So, in the translation you provided, the translators inserted the word “other” but that’s not in the Greek. It simply says “no such practice.” The Greek

@Luv_Is_Truth @DoulosDean68 This is a problem with how people interpret Paul as Paul’s behaviour doesn’t reflect male priority. "Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom give...

@Luv_Is_Truth @DoulosDean68 This is a problem with how people interpret Paul as Paul’s behaviour doesn’t reflect male priority. "Consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our

@HeGTiSunesis I agree with your assessment. My question is more posed to complem

@HeGTiSunesis I agree with your assessment. My question is more posed to complementarians who believe that Eve has authority over Eve because he “named” her. Yet all he seemed to be doing is identify

RT @danae_hudlow: Even as a complementarian, I don't like the argument that "wom

RT @danae_hudlow: Even as a complementarian, I don't like the argument that "women aren't allowed to be elders because their empathy/gullib…

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Since I already discussed this at length, I

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Since I already discussed this at length, I’ll link my comments in the following. Please do try to find holes in my arguments. https://t.co/IrWpXZpeyS

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham If you love your wife like Christ loves the

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham If you love your wife like Christ loves the church, you will set aside your desires and serve her needs as more important than your own. Do you do that? This stat

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The Greek of 1Co 11:14 is not being translated correctly. Look at how the ISV translates it: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor that hair is a woman’s glory,...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The Greek of 1Co 11:14 is not being translated correctly. Look at how the ISV translates it: "Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man t

1Co 11:14 debate

Tit 1:5-9 1Ti 3:1-13 general

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Your posts should be chained as I don’t know what this one is the continuation of. 1Ti 3:1-13 and Tit 1:5-9 in no way restrict elders to be male. You likely get there by reading the English not realizing that the...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Your posts should be chained as I don’t know what this one is the continuation of. 1Ti 3:1-13 and Tit 1:5-9 in no way restrict elders to be male. You likely get t

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The idea of gender-roles is not something that the Bible introduces. The differences are what make mixed male-female leadership teams more effective. Women think differently and men tend to get stuck in linear thi...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The idea of gender-roles is not something that the Bible introduces. The differences are what make mixed male-female leadership teams more effective. Women think d

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Wow, I’m glad you don’t think that hair length affects one’s eternity!! Yes, men and women are different. Complementary would be a word I might choose, but a group that thinks there is gender hierarchy co-opted t...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Wow, I’m glad you don’t think that hair length affects one’s eternity!! Yes, men and women are different. Complementary would be a word I might choose, but a grou

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Is John the Baptist shamed because he was a nazarite from birth and therefore couldn’t cut his hair like Samson? Even Paul took a Nazarite vow and in numbers both men and women could take the vow. The vow involves...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Is John the Baptist shamed because he was a nazarite from birth and therefore couldn’t cut his hair like Samson? Even Paul took a Nazarite vow and in numbers both

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham I find it quite puzzling how someone who be

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham I find it quite puzzling how someone who believes that godly women can teach true doctrine and pastor being equated to this list. 🤔

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham I don’t know Rob. Just got the Bible. I have no idea why they don’t acknowledge what’s right there in the text and are willing to overlook details that don’t comport with their view. Besides, what motivation do t...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham I don’t know Rob. Just got the Bible. I have no idea why they don’t acknowledge what’s right there in the text and are willing to overlook details that don’t compo

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Jesus’ body was from God. The Father is not the source of the eternal uncreated Son but of His body. Eve’s body was created from Adam’s flesh and bone. Your comment that the doctrine was never questioned until…I...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham Jesus’ body was from God. The Father is not the source of the eternal uncreated Son but of His body. Eve’s body was created from Adam’s flesh and bone. Your comm

@ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Why is Paul concerned with men havi

@ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Why is Paul concerned with men having authority over women for one hour a week? What purpose does that serve if for the rest of the week they are listening

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@RenOfMen @42Lives I suspect Paul wouldn’t be concerned about the statistics unless there was an increase in s3xual immorality. 1Co 7 is fairly clear that he wishes they would be like him (single), but if they are unable to control themselves, it is ...

@RenOfMen @42Lives I suspect Paul wouldn’t be concerned about the statistics unless there was an increase in s3xual immorality. 1Co 7 is fairly clear that he wishes they would be like him (single), bu

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@KatieWollan2 @ryancduff The question is not why a woman can be a pastor but why she cannot be one. The scripture doesn't forbid women from serving in this capacity. Further, the idea of having a spiritual covering in her husband comes from a misread...

@KatieWollan2 @ryancduff The question is not why a woman can be a pastor but why she cannot be one. The scripture doesn't forbid women from serving in this capacity. Further, the idea of having a spir

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Women not serving as leaders is not established BIBLICA

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Women not serving as leaders is not established BIBLICAL doctrine. I may not be welcome in the Orthodox Church, but that doesn't mean you should treat me as an unbeliever for