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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Wow, can’t say I’ve heard anyone argue this way before. Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, widely spoken by Jews in the diaspora and in Judea. The NT authors—being bilingual—wrote in Greek to reach a broader a...

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Wow, can’t say I’ve heard anyone argue this way before. Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, widely spoken by Jews in the diaspora and in Judea. The NT authors—b

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@iheartJ37 Thanks for sharing! I did something similar last night. I came across

@iheartJ37 Thanks for sharing! I did something similar last night. I came across a verse and thought how it might apply to a situation in church. It looked dire. But reflecting on it further and by al

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@mennodarren I find that’s most of the things I changed on—things I just nodded

@mennodarren I find that’s most of the things I changed on—things I just nodded along to listening in church. I’m convinced we are meant to dig deeply into the word ourselves. Church has become far t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@Grump_Old_Man Well, if you are a Christian then you clearly changed your views unless you grew up always believing. Did you hold to infant baptism but changed your view? Did you hold patriarchal views and change to egalitarian (for example)? Wer...

@Grump_Old_Man Well, if you are a Christian then you clearly changed your views unless you grew up always believing. Did you hold to infant baptism but changed your view? Did you hold patriarchal v

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@kimberley_7_ @BogdanOancea77 As for your comment on Titus 2:3-5, yes women teaching other women is important just like men instructing men. Yet we all have common instruction for each other. Your comment actually shows why female pastors are such a ...

@kimberley_7_ @BogdanOancea77 As for your comment on Titus 2:3-5, yes women teaching other women is important just like men instructing men. Yet we all have common instruction for each other. Your com

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@SledgeTX1776 @MikeWingerii That “dude” agrees with you mostly. He just thinks w

@SledgeTX1776 @MikeWingerii That “dude” agrees with you mostly. He just thinks women are not to be elders. And no, the Bible doesn’t say that. That’s not what Paul is saying in 1Ti 2:12. https://t.co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@UnsafeMedia @ksorbs Yeah, I got that too as an elder at my church. I also disag

@UnsafeMedia @ksorbs Yeah, I got that too as an elder at my church. I also disagreed.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@karsten_boom @MikeWingerii Why? This post to Mike is because I want complementarians and egalitarians to get along better. I’ve been a part of complementarian churches and supported them, but he encourages people to leave their egalitarian churches ...

@karsten_boom @MikeWingerii Why? This post to Mike is because I want complementarians and egalitarians to get along better. I’ve been a part of complementarian churches and supported them, but he enco

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@ashestoashes80 Because the verse says literally “one wife husband” or “husband

@ashestoashes80 Because the verse says literally “one wife husband” or “husband of one wife”—if this is about being male, then it means that elders also have to be married. I argue against both.

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@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usurp authority” (are men even allowed to do that?) an...

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usur

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RT @ryanschatz: @kimberley_7_ @GillesPaling @BogdanOancea77 I don’t believe the

RT @ryanschatz: @kimberley_7_ @GillesPaling @BogdanOancea77 I don’t believe the Biblical text—when carefully considered—teaches there are g…

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@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii So you don’t tolerate secondary differences? I

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii So you don’t tolerate secondary differences? I tolerated my former male-only led church on this issue. Do you think it is a sin for a female to serve as a pastor?

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@JohnBasinger45 @MikeWingerii I’m Not a Roman Catholic, but I was actually looki

@JohnBasinger45 @MikeWingerii I’m Not a Roman Catholic, but I was actually looking for that list of when they started teaching different dogma! Thanks!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in the NT, 'man' can mean anyone, male or female, based on context. So, if Paul meant both genders, why sometimes use the

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@aarondgarrett Part of the problem is that the churches that support women tend to be liberal (not all of them, but many). Unless women are trained and included with men, you will get a higher proportion being off. One I find is really solid is Kay ...

@aarondgarrett Part of the problem is that the churches that support women tend to be liberal (not all of them, but many). Unless women are trained and included with men, you will get a higher proport

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@KeggerAgain Imagine you inserted someone from another ethnicity into your statement, and instead of a woman, you felt uncomfortable with a black man leading the church. That’s the kind of thing I’m trying to point out. Male or female or your ethnici...

@KeggerAgain Imagine you inserted someone from another ethnicity into your statement, and instead of a woman, you felt uncomfortable with a black man leading the church. That’s the kind of thing I’m t

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Wow, can’t say I’ve heard anyone argue this way before. Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire, widely spoken by Jews in the diaspora and in Judea. The NT authors—being bilingual—wrote in Greek to reach a broader a...

@iheartJ37 Thanks for sharing! I did something similar last night. I came across

@mennodarren I find that’s most of the things I changed on—things I just nodded

@Grump_Old_Man Well, if you are a Christian then you clearly changed your views unless you grew up always believing. Did you hold to infant baptism but changed your view? Did you hold patriarchal views and change to egalitarian (for example)? Wer...

@kimberley_7_ @BogdanOancea77 As for your comment on Titus 2:3-5, yes women teaching other women is important just like men instructing men. Yet we all have common instruction for each other. Your comment actually shows why female pastors are such a ...

@SledgeTX1776 @MikeWingerii That “dude” agrees with you mostly. He just thinks w

@UnsafeMedia @ksorbs Yeah, I got that too as an elder at my church. I also disag

@karsten_boom @MikeWingerii Why? This post to Mike is because I want complementarians and egalitarians to get along better. I’ve been a part of complementarian churches and supported them, but he encourages people to leave their egalitarian churches ...

@ashestoashes80 Because the verse says literally “one wife husband” or “husband

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usurp authority” (are men even allowed to do that?) an...

RT @ryanschatz: @kimberley_7_ @GillesPaling @BogdanOancea77 I don’t believe the

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii So you don’t tolerate secondary differences? I

@JohnBasinger45 @MikeWingerii I’m Not a Roman Catholic, but I was actually looki

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in

@aarondgarrett Part of the problem is that the churches that support women tend to be liberal (not all of them, but many). Unless women are trained and included with men, you will get a higher proportion being off. One I find is really solid is Kay ...

@KeggerAgain Imagine you inserted someone from another ethnicity into your statement, and instead of a woman, you felt uncomfortable with a black man leading the church. That’s the kind of thing I’m trying to point out. Male or female or your ethnici...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Since you feel compelled to state that my view is a doctrine of demons—a view that frees women to serve without restrictions beyond character qualifications and ability—perhaps you should familiarize yourself with what char...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Well, in that case, maybe you can be a bit more graci

@SolaScripturaT @BornAgainMissy Why shame on me? Do you know what Paul’s reasons

@joyklaprade If it helps, I did a thread on what “husband of one wife” means. Yo

@haymes_joshua Church in that context was a group of believers meeting in a home

@BornAgainMissy Now isn’t that interesting! “All scripture is God breathed…” —bu

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy The dear pastor can start here. https://t.

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy So now this pastor blocks me for asking hi

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m agreeing with what she wrote as if it

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m not out of order. I’ve studied the tex

@ImRevAlan @Autumn_Armyworm @BornAgainMissy Church leaders affirmed what the peo

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Oh, and where does scripture say that wome

@Autumn_Armyworm @ImRevAlan @BornAgainMissy I’m not a progressive though. But I

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Are you a pastor and you are not cognizant

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Surely you know the NT is written in Greek? Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians after 1Co 7:1 but there’s no quotation marks in the original manuscripts. Are you aware of this? Why did Paul chang...

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy You are deflecting. You need to take responsibility for your interpretation and defend it. I’ve read the scripture and studied it carefully on this issue and a right interpretation of scripture is not on your sid...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan If she agrees with me and sees how the whole of the context and grammar does not forbid women from speaking, then the only one with the problem are guys like yourself. Thus: “What? came the word of God out from you [males]...

In Paul’s day, there may have only been a handful of copies of his letters, so t

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Yes, and following the logic, they were to teach all nations to obey *everything* that He commanded them. This would have been a good time to clarify “except make sure you limit women’s instruction and make sure ...

@ImRevAlan @BornAgainMissy Paul’s grammar is “a woman…the woman” showing that th

@BornAgainMissy How can the eyes say to the mouth “I have no need of you?” On wh

@BornAgainMissy Further, I presume that women learn theology not only for themse

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Well, actually, all that this is proof of is that some women let themselves be controlled by feelings and lose connection to the facts. The rampant immigration has caused an immense amount of harm with people coming in and ...

@BornAgainMissy Why anyone thinks that Paul’s purpose was to stop the teaching of truth from one half of the body to the other half is beyond me. Paul’s instruction in his personal letter to Timothy was to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from...

@pauldirks The EO calls for a plan to be presented in 15 days and presumably its release will follow that plan if it is accepted, so the details are not being provided immediately. BTW, there is a lot of stuff already up for JFK but small portion is...

@danitreweek I struggle to understand how anyone is against anyone serving the n

@danitreweek This is the first time I have heard of ordination to deacon roles.

@KayKasper263927 @dalepartridge Was Jacob’s wife Rachel (Ge 29:9) who was a shep

@dalepartridge Your wording is needlessly divisive. Where does the Bible qualify pastors with “male”? No one is even explicitly called “pastor” in the NT. And we actually have at least one example of a female shepherd—Rachael in Ge 29:9 is explicitl...

@BornAgainMissy Great! Now challenge him on one of his RC dogmas and he will mak

@dTipping62 @megbasham No one is called the head of the church except Christ. An

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were not speaking in foreign tongues without interpretati...

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals This unique experience is God preparing him for a stro

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explicitly ties deception with the time sequence of creation in Ge 2 and all women are not deceived and many men are deceived. When we go back to Ge 2 we can see what is going on that gives Adam unique experience that p...

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@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Yes, and following the logic, they were to teach all nations to obey everything that He commanded them. This would have been a good time to clarify “except make sure you limit women’s instruction and make sure ...