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@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer to either a man or a woman. Just as I can show tha...

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer

@path1_one @rightresponsem I have no interest in that question as it has little

@path1_one @rightresponsem I have no interest in that question as it has little to no bearing on my reading of scripture which alone is authoritative.

@path1_one @rightresponsem What is distorted? Kephale is being used to mean sour

@path1_one @rightresponsem What is distorted? Kephale is being used to mean source or origin. Nothing being distorted as that meaning fits the context of 1Cor 11:1-16 perfectly.

1Cor 11:1-16 commentary

@path1_one @rightresponsem In the following, I explain Eph 5:22-33 in light of the reciprocity of subjection to one another in v21. I also show how Paul appeals to Philemon to treat Onesimus, his former slave, as Paul himself! Paul appeals rather tha...

@path1_one @rightresponsem In the following, I explain Eph 5:22-33 in light of the reciprocity of subjection to one another in v21. I also show how Paul appeals to Philemon to treat Onesimus, his form

Eph 5:22-33 general

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't disqualified). Implied pronouns are male but this is...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't di

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon A concordance is a fallible tool. The definitive source is the Bible and its context. The word kephale means head. It's used all over, so there's no debate on this. What that means in context is the question. And every ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon A concordance is a fallible tool. The definitive source is the Bible and its context. The word kephale means head. It's used all over, so there's no debate on this. What

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@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Even if every single so-called church 'father' al

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Even if every single so-called church 'father' all agreed with you, that doesn't mean they are correct.

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon He is not in the Greek. There is no pronoun. http

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon He is not in the Greek. There is no pronoun. https://t.co/v8xK3zvWzH

@path1_one @rightresponsem He is distorting the Greek? The Greek is simple. It s

@path1_one @rightresponsem He is distorting the Greek? The Greek is simple. It simply means "head." It's a pretty simple word. But what "head" refers to depends on the context. Disagreeing on non-ess

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Where is that stated in scripture?

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Just because you pasted a resource that says keph

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Just because you pasted a resource that says kephale means head doesn't mean that it means authority over. The meaning of a word is defined by the context in which the a

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Thanks for being honest. I agree that the husband is head of his wife. Your use of over presumes it means boss or authority. Eve was made from Adam's flesh and bone⎯thus he is the source of his wife. And marriage sy...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Thanks for being honest. I agree that the husband is head *of* his wife. Your use of over presumes it means boss or authority. Eve was made from Adam's flesh and bone⎯

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have fi...

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from

Col 1:18 general

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Anger refers to male headship? How does anger hav

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Anger refers to male headship? How does anger have to do with male headship? I'm not a marcionite.

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@path1_one @rightresponsem Do you also wonder what the commentator Leon Morris i

@path1_one @rightresponsem Do you also wonder what the commentator Leon Morris is doing inside a church? https://t.co/oiaep5VdVu

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Is the authority based on a popular vote? Sola Sc

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Is the authority based on a popular vote? Sola Scriptura, right?

@path1_one @rightresponsem Head literally means head😊. Whether it is being used

@path1_one @rightresponsem Head literally means head😊. Whether it is being used to mean authority depends on the context. https://t.co/oiaep5VdVu

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon You sound like you are presuming your conclusion. If Paul is using an idiom to describe character (which is the case for all the other things Paul lists), then this isn't about being married or male. Paul wasn't marrie...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon You sound like you are presuming your conclusion. If Paul is using an idiom to describe character (which is the case for all the other things Paul lists), then this isn'

@path1_one @rightresponsem Why not use the word "authority" or "lord" if the int

@path1_one @rightresponsem Why not use the word "authority" or "lord" if the intention was to convey that Jesus is the authority over or boss over the church?

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 I’m a dummy for exegeting scripture to expose the

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 I’m a dummy for exegeting scripture to expose the intended meaning?

@path1_one @rightresponsem Paul is not using head to mean the authority of or th

@path1_one @rightresponsem Paul is not using head to mean the authority of or the boss of. https://t.co/IORdUu0T3w

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to re

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to refer to marital faithfulness (character) and not being married or one’s gender. See below for some scholars who support a

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If anyone aspires to oversight” - τις = “someone / a...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If

1Ti 3:1 general

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem I’m guessing. Both t

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem I’m guessing. Both the husband and wife may have been elders. Nothing specifies either way.

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon What are you suggesting about “all authority”? A

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon What are you suggesting about “all authority”? Are you referring to the apostles? The scriptures are the foundation, not the views of later believers.

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem In this case, yes…an

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem In this case, yes…and the wife was teaching. Which, if it wasn’t heresy, is obviously not a problem in itself.

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does n

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does not allow that woman in Ephesus to teach heresy? Her husband, likely an elder, was doing and saying nothing—remarkably ju

@Dankrightanon There's literally not a single passage that says "only men are to

@Dankrightanon There's literally not a single passage that says "only men are to be pastors." You are making things up.

@kennethesee @smashbaals 35 mins a week with a general sermon is enough to learn

@kennethesee @smashbaals 35 mins a week with a general sermon is enough to learn Greek or how to use BDB or do deep study? Really?

@path1_one @rightresponsem Well, no, since we were made in the image of God and

@path1_one @rightresponsem Well, no, since we were made in the image of God and not animals. Plus animals were cursed. Further, the Greek for hierarchy does not occur either in the LXX or the New Tes

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-28

@The_Under_Dog94 Well, given that the Holy Spirit is called our Ezer Kenegdo, that the helper is not a lesser position is clear. Jesus also served humanity. I help my wife...she helps me. The will of the Father and Son were aligned, yet if Jesus aske...

@The_Under_Dog94 Well, given that the Holy Spirit is called our Ezer Kenegdo, that the helper is not a lesser position is clear. Jesus also served humanity. I help my wife...she helps me. The will of

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@smashbaals I thought seminary taught how to exposit the text. Wouldn’t every be

@smashbaals I thought seminary taught how to exposit the text. Wouldn’t every believer benefit from this? Are there not men who go to seminary who don’t plan to be pastors?

@graysonfxx38325 @rightresponsem Such generic statements like that suggests women are like animals that need to be tamed and subdued is precisely why I wrote my response to Joel Webbon. Many men also have born bad fruit. Maybe that tells us that the...

@graysonfxx38325 @rightresponsem Such generic statements like that suggests women are like animals that need to be tamed and subdued is precisely why I wrote my response to Joel Webbon. Many men also

@The_Under_Dog94 I agree that scripture is primary which is precisely why we can

@The_Under_Dog94 I agree that scripture is primary which is precisely why we can disagree on less clear matters and still be brothers. https://t.co/3ni0hMgnP9

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historical creed or confession unifying the church says th...

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historic

Gen 1:28 debate

@JamesGi27467089 Hm. Women can only serve in subservient roles under male leadership, so what I heard them saying was how happy and blessed they were to see women contribute and serve and even how their mother’s instructed them as children—though suc...

@JamesGi27467089 Hm. Women can only serve in subservient roles under male leadership, so what I heard them saying was how happy and blessed they were to see women contribute and serve and even how the

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others including men and provide pastoral counseling, and l...

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others in

@Keith83361 @sola_chad The rainbow was God’s sign first. And no, I have never at

@Keith83361 @sola_chad The rainbow was God’s sign first. And no, I have never attended a pro same a 3x church.

@Dankrightanon Nowhere does scripture ever say that Deborah was made judge as a judgment on Israel. And that’s not how the pattern of the judges worked. God turned Israel over to their enemies because of their sin and then when He had compassion on t...

@Dankrightanon Nowhere does scripture ever say that Deborah was made judge as a judgment on Israel. And that’s not how the pattern of the judges worked. God turned Israel over to their enemies because

@Dankrightanon First, there is no ‘command’ that only men be pastors (poimen).

@Dankrightanon First, there is no ‘command’ that only men be pastors (poimen). Second, you are assuming head means the boss of, which is not how scripture uses the term.

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@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems to be noting something that a wife uniquely has as ...

@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems t

@HeGTiSunesis I knew about the Hebrew refers to the heads of each of the tribes but didn’t connect it with the census in the way you have. Very interesting. Ex 30:12: "When you take the sum (רֹאשׁ, rosh) of the people of Israel..." The LXX translat...

@HeGTiSunesis I knew about the Hebrew refers to the heads of each of the tribes but didn’t connect it with the census in the way you have. Very interesting. Ex 30:12: "When you take the sum (רֹאשׁ, r

Ex 30:12 debate

@TheAwokeSlayer My wife is not my pastor. Does Mike debate anyone? My mind is

@TheAwokeSlayer My wife is not my pastor. Does Mike debate anyone? My mind is doing ok.

@TheAwokeSlayer I am confused. You said goodbye but now you are responding. If you don’t want to respond, then just ignore my follow up questions. If you are a complementarian who lives like me, an egalitarian, I have no problem with that. Just say ...

@TheAwokeSlayer I am confused. You said goodbye but now you are responding. If you don’t want to respond, then just ignore my follow up questions. If you are a complementarian who lives like me, an e

@JamesGi27467089 Nice to have the summary of Mike’s very long video including ti

@JamesGi27467089 Nice to have the summary of Mike’s very long video including timestamps. I’ll bookmark for later…thanks! I would like to respond to his egalitarian criticisms as I believe he is inco

@EManFleming @carol66944 A wife has two glories—as a human created in the image

@EManFleming @carol66944 A wife has two glories—as a human created in the image of God, she is the glory of God. Then referring back to the first creation being created from Adam’s side, she is the gl

@TheAwokeSlayer @iheartJ37 @rightresponsem You don’t find an example of someone teaching false doctrine or someone you can mock for their presentation and then justify your views based on bad examples. Do you not think one could similarly find bad ma...

@TheAwokeSlayer @iheartJ37 @rightresponsem You don’t find an example of someone teaching false doctrine or someone you can mock for their presentation and then justify your views based on bad examples

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok Can you help me understand what it is that

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok Can you help me understand what it is that you command your wife that she must obey and she could not also similarly command you?

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok A woman who teaches the truth is to be listened to simply because of the truth she speaks. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether a male or female. A book is neither male nor female—yet di you only read b...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok A woman who teaches the truth is to be listened to simply because of the truth she speaks. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether a male or female. A book

@sola_chad Well, they are certainly not following your faulty interpretation. Ju

@sola_chad Well, they are certainly not following your faulty interpretation. Just like when 7th Day Adventist’s say I’m not a believer because I don’t gather for church on Saturday and observe a spec