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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-02

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel Does Ron not use paragraphs to support his position to

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel Does Ron not use paragraphs to support his position too? And you are ok with him using paragraphs? Actually, the apostle Paul often uses long treatises to explain things. I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-02

@CovenantReform2 I’m not trying to gut Ro 9:13 of its intended meaning. I’m simp

@CovenantReform2 I’m not trying to gut Ro 9:13 of its intended meaning. I’m simply asking a question to get people to think of what meaning would make it not contradict other scripture. I believe the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@122R1 @ronhenzel FYI, that’s not what I think. I’m not skipping over anything as I wasn’t giving an exegesis; I was listing some important questions to which I need cohesive and compelling answers to if they are going to be able to change my mind. ...

@122R1 @ronhenzel FYI, that’s not what I think. I’m not skipping over anything as I wasn’t giving an exegesis; I was listing some important questions to which I need cohesive and compelling answers to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@BNickdoc @ronhenzel I also appreciate the time Ron takes to respond to me point by point. He is doing what most are not willing to do and I respect him for that. But you might want to wait to hear my response before you think he’s closed the case a...

@BNickdoc @ronhenzel I also appreciate the time Ron takes to respond to me point by point. He is doing what most are not willing to do and I respect him for that. But you might want to wait to hear m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@MikedAlamo @ronhenzel I’m seeking to confuse ‘the teaching’? Interesting that you have access to my intentions. I’m asking complementarians the questions I have on this text, exactly as stated, which complementarians need to consider in trying to c...

@MikedAlamo @ronhenzel I’m seeking to confuse ‘the teaching’? Interesting that you have access to my intentions. I’m asking complementarians the questions I have on this text, exactly as stated, whic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@morrisabrooks @ronhenzel What do you mean? What emotions was i using in my ques

@morrisabrooks @ronhenzel What do you mean? What emotions was i using in my questions? What emotions form the basis of my exegesis?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@ronhenzel @Presbyterianon Well now, Ron. Since you are an elder (whether paid or not matters little), shouldn’t you press back on comments like these? Is it beyond your pay grade to know that in German, “schatz” means treasure? A man would call his...

@ronhenzel @Presbyterianon Well now, Ron. Since you are an elder (whether paid or not matters little), shouldn’t you press back on comments like these? Is it beyond your pay grade to know that in Ger

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@dalepartridge We didn't do daycare. My wife worked starting in the late afterno

@dalepartridge We didn't do daycare. My wife worked starting in the late afternoon and I started early and came home early. Is that ok with you Dale?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-01

@SoNotBettyOK @Elder_Barry_ Exactly.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, you are correct. Many false prophets do exactly this. Prophets carried the death penalty for false prophecy because of this. When God inspires someone to write scripture, it is self-evident, internally consistent, and no...

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, you are correct. Many false prophets do exactly this. Prophets carried the death penalty for false prophecy because of this. When God inspires someone to write scripture,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 You said the context is clearly authority and that I have decided not to let the text change me. You merely listed texts without explaining them and then decided what I have decided. Then you followed up that any answer I gi...

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 You said the context is clearly authority and that I have decided not to let the text change me. You merely listed texts without explaining them and then decided what I have

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@EManFleming While it is true that man is the glory of God, the woman is also the glory of God since she is the same flesh as man. But the woman (ie. Eve) is also the glory of man (ie. Adam). Marriage always maps back to the first marriage, so we say...

@EManFleming While it is true that man is the glory of God, the woman is also the glory of God since she is the same flesh as man. But the woman (ie. Eve) is also the glory of man (ie. Adam). Marriage

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@EManFleming Next, the woman is made from the flesh and bone of Adam, thus Adam is the head (ie. source) of Eve. Finally, the next significant event is the origin of Christ’s humanity—God is the head (ie. source) of Christ’s body. Nothing to do with...

@EManFleming Next, the woman is made from the flesh and bone of Adam, thus Adam is the head (ie. source) of Eve. Finally, the next significant event is the origin of Christ’s humanity—God is the head

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@EManFleming When God said to Adam “because you listened to the voice of your

@EManFleming When God said to Adam “because you listened to the *voice* of your wife” God was stating that Adam was not unaware of the conversation. She never spoke to Adam, but to the serpent. Yet Ad

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, men penned scripture (though we don’t know for sure that women were not involved—ie. who wrote Hebrews, Ruth, Esther?), but the following passages from 1Peter are clear that scripture is not men making things up or propo...

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, men penned scripture (though we don’t know for sure that women were not involved—ie. who wrote Hebrews, Ruth, Esther?), but the following passages from 1Peter are clear t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@EManFleming Yes, I’m serious. Gen 1-2 is God’s design. Gen 3 is the fall and its consequences. Gen 3:16-19 has no imperatives, and the man and woman are not cursed. God prophesies that the husband will rule over his wife. If this was ideal, wouldn’t...

@EManFleming Yes, I’m serious. Gen 1-2 is God’s design. Gen 3 is the fall and its consequences. Gen 3:16-19 has no imperatives, and the man and woman are not cursed. God prophesies that the husband wi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem Where are you getting this idea that a woman is

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem Where are you getting this idea that a woman is unfit to lead her family? Haven’t you read 1 Timothy 5? https://t.co/o5lskFF6pv

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@StothersRyan @Peacemaker811 No one should be the ruler or authority over their spouse period. And the husband is the head of the wife because marriage goes back to Eden where Adam’s flesh and bone is the source of his wife. Our marriage simply maps ...

@StothersRyan @Peacemaker811 No one should be the ruler or authority over their spouse period. And the husband is the head of the wife because marriage goes back to Eden where Adam’s flesh and bone is

@Grump_Old_Man @ronhenzel Does Ron not use paragraphs to support his position to

@CovenantReform2 I’m not trying to gut Ro 9:13 of its intended meaning. I’m simp

@122R1 @ronhenzel FYI, that’s not what I think. I’m not skipping over anything as I wasn’t giving an exegesis; I was listing some important questions to which I need cohesive and compelling answers to if they are going to be able to change my mind. ...

@BNickdoc @ronhenzel I also appreciate the time Ron takes to respond to me point by point. He is doing what most are not willing to do and I respect him for that. But you might want to wait to hear my response before you think he’s closed the case a...

@MikedAlamo @ronhenzel I’m seeking to confuse ‘the teaching’? Interesting that you have access to my intentions. I’m asking complementarians the questions I have on this text, exactly as stated, which complementarians need to consider in trying to c...

@morrisabrooks @ronhenzel What do you mean? What emotions was i using in my ques

@ronhenzel @Presbyterianon Well now, Ron. Since you are an elder (whether paid or not matters little), shouldn’t you press back on comments like these? Is it beyond your pay grade to know that in German, “schatz” means treasure? A man would call his...

@dalepartridge We didn't do daycare. My wife worked starting in the late afterno

@SoNotBettyOK @Elder_Barry_ Exactly.

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, you are correct. Many false prophets do exactly this. Prophets carried the death penalty for false prophecy because of this. When God inspires someone to write scripture, it is self-evident, internally consistent, and no...

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 You said the context is clearly authority and that I have decided not to let the text change me. You merely listed texts without explaining them and then decided what I have decided. Then you followed up that any answer I gi...

@EManFleming While it is true that man is the glory of God, the woman is also the glory of God since she is the same flesh as man. But the woman (ie. Eve) is also the glory of man (ie. Adam). Marriage always maps back to the first marriage, so we say...

@EManFleming Next, the woman is made from the flesh and bone of Adam, thus Adam is the head (ie. source) of Eve. Finally, the next significant event is the origin of Christ’s humanity—God is the head (ie. source) of Christ’s body. Nothing to do with...

@EManFleming When God said to Adam “because you listened to the *voice* of your

@whoalaura @StothersRyan Yes, men penned scripture (though we don’t know for sure that women were not involved—ie. who wrote Hebrews, Ruth, Esther?), but the following passages from 1Peter are clear that scripture is not men making things up or propo...

@EManFleming Yes, I’m serious. Gen 1-2 is God’s design. Gen 3 is the fall and its consequences. Gen 3:16-19 has no imperatives, and the man and woman are not cursed. God prophesies that the husband will rule over his wife. If this was ideal, wouldn’t...

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem Where are you getting this idea that a woman is

@StothersRyan @Peacemaker811 No one should be the ruler or authority over their spouse period. And the husband is the head of the wife because marriage goes back to Eden where Adam’s flesh and bone is the source of his wife. Our marriage simply maps ...

@Jskellinton78 I still don’t know what that means. You are just making statements. I’m backing up my view with a careful exegesis of scripture. Where is one human to rule over another ever the intention of Ge 1:28? Both the man and the woman are to ...

@Jskellinton78 Hebrew. But there’s a variant in the Hebrew showing it can be tak

@Son_of_Most_Hi @Chainsaw59598 In Mt 19:3-9, the Pharisees ask Jesus if it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason. Jesus responds by pointing back to Ge 1:27 and Ge 2:24, emphasizing that God created marriage as a lifelong union. He t...

@avyargo Asking serious questions of the text and taking every word and contextu

@RonaldTill13475 @KaeleyT @WayneShaff60221 Is she allowed to share what she thinks is the best thing for the good of your family? My wife and I discuss our different viewpoints and desires and come to mutual decisions. It takes more time frequently, ...

@mtnhousewife Yes, I believe you are understanding Jesus rightly. And there’s al

@autocorrect2_0 I agree with you. And pastoring or shepherding doesn’t have to be an official appointment. You shepherd your children, and you may be a spiritual influence over your small group and care for their souls. You also may do so online. Jus...

@rightresponsem @calvinrobinson What does your comment about gynocracy have to d

@EManFleming Yes, let’s look at God’s order in the garden. Where is the man comm

@RonaldTill13475 @WayneShaff60221 @KaeleyT A lot of pastors and Christians seem to dismiss many scriptures. Most would likely say that they aren’t dismissing any of it, just that they are doing a poor job of interpreting and applying it. I certainly ...

@RonaldTill13475 @KaeleyT @WayneShaff60221 What does equal treatment of women have to do with not having a husband? No one here is saying wives shouldn’t submit to and serve their husbands. Just that husbands should do the same Are men so proud in y...

@RonaldTill13475 @KaeleyT @WayneShaff60221 What are you taking about? Saying that a husband is not the authority over his wife and that women can lead along with men in the church destroys their lives?? Our family believes this and we are married and...

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem The head of state is a different context and se

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 Ultimately context is king and so we have to consider

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 Yes, they can certainly be used differently. But it would be confusing if the topmost part of the body is meant to be about hierarchical authority and then not to think that the chest is in authority over the waist which is ...

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 They are also Jewish. Just because God has a task for

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 The context is what determines meaning. I’m curious why you think the clear terms meaning authority were not used but a body part was? When Paul says that the eye cannot say to the ear ‘I don’t need you’ is part of the head ...

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem So God’s will involves violating His created order? Wouldn’t God be aware of His own created order and follow it? Who says a woman is the head of her husband? I’m certainly not. But I don’t believe head means authori...

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 Where do they say “authority of husbands over wives”?

@StothersRyan I might even offer a kidney to get older manuscripts…especially if

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix These popes and bishops have erred in so man

@StothersRyan All of church history?? Where do you get that from? Are you saying no churches had female pastors or elders until modern times? Or that the ones who did always did so for the wrong reasons? The following slide is from a presentation do...

@StothersRyan That’s right. We’ve got access to so much more than they ever had.

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix Because the Roman Catholic Church has got a

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix I see. Well the word for teach is in 1Ti 2:1

@StothersRyan Where is the historical test in 2Ti 3:16? I like all of these but

@StothersRyan Hi Ryan! I am looking for cohesive, in context answers that do no

@StanfieldBrent1 Well, yes, but that doesn’t mean subservient to. I help my wife

I have some questions I need some help with since so many think that 1Ti 2:12 is as clear as mud.👇 1. Given Paul’s stated purpose was to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” (1Ti 1:3), why did it shift to “instruct all women to n...

@WriteTalkCreate @KaeleyT A leader is someone who acts independently on his or h

@da_sojourner I read it very carefully and definitely conclude that women and me

@RonaldTill13475 @KaeleyT Here’s a few reasons why: 1. Given Paul’s stated purpose was to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” (1Ti 1:3), why did it shift to “instruct all women to not teach true doctrine to any male over 17”? 2...

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@EManFleming When God said to Adam “because you listened to the voice of your