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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-12-13

@jonathanaplumb Tolerance is good but tolerating idolatry in those who profess to be believers is not. “But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel… who teaches and misleads My slaves so that they commit sexual immorality and ea...

@jonathanaplumb Tolerance is good but tolerating idolatry in those who profess to be believers is not. “But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel… who teaches and misleads My s

Re 2:20 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-12-04

@Penjammin @Latterdaytruth The one who isn’t a created being. The one who wasn’t once “an intelligence” waiting to be organized. The one who never progressed to Godhood. The one who has eternally been God. The one who didn’t receive authority from me...

@Penjammin @Latterdaytruth The one who isn’t a created being. The one who wasn’t once “an intelligence” waiting to be organized. The one who never progressed to Godhood. The one who has eternally been

@jonathanaplumb Tolerance is good but tolerating idolatry in those who profess to be believers is not. “But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel… who teaches and misleads My slaves so that they commit sexual immorality and ea...

@Penjammin @Latterdaytruth The one who isn’t a created being. The one who wasn’t once “an intelligence” waiting to be organized. The one who never progressed to Godhood. The one who has eternally been God. The one who didn’t receive authority from me...

@Vitus_oss Mt 16:19 is spoken to Peter, but Mt 18:18 gives the exact same author

@uncledando @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Except kephale (head)

@Latterdaytruth The passage doesn’t say Stephen saw two separate beings with physical bodies—only that he saw Jesus, who is visibly distinct in His glorified, resurrected state, standing in a position of divine authority. The text never says Stephen...

@PatrickSemani @DLepanto9801 @PrayTheRosary12 Notes are not a sin, but treating

@PatrickSemani @DLepanto9801 @PrayTheRosary12 It does happen in Protestant churc

@DLepanto9801 @PatrickSemani @PrayTheRosary12 That’s exactly the answer a RC has

@lynne_catmom @Truth_matters20 In general, most protestant denominations (who are not 1 inch away from the RCC) teach scripture alone and don’t add tradition as authoritative. That they still fall into the trap of adding things at times happens but a...

@Truth_matters20 Once you make tradition an authority separate from scripture th

@autocorrect2_0 Well…headship has nothing to do with male only authority.

@dalepartridge @SecretCityChez So you lead the women’s Bible study? Women have n

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge You are not equal when someone has authority over you by fact of an immutable characteristic. And this contradicts Gen 1:28 where no such distinction was made in design. The Bible never says anything like source-derive...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge No, you PRESUMING his reference transcends him using it only as a prototype for something going on in Ephesus is your problem. And you just combining source with must alone be the authority makes no sense of Gen 1:28 w...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge I have never heard of Eve being called a federal head. In fact, no woman in scripture is ever called head. I would think your description here is a super minority view (maybe a view only @grok has by itself?). Unfortu...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge How did you decide between a specific woman and the anaphoric use of the article and a generic woman? How does your view tie the context together with Paul’s stated intent, writing specifically to Timothy to deal with ...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, so if I’m following you now, womenkind is guaranteed to be saved through the sovereignly promised messiah, so Paul creates a motivational bridge by using a conditional statement to exhort women to keep themselves f...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Didaskein does not mean authoritative teaching! There’s no ‘or’ in the text. Authentein doesn’t mean dominion. You made women and men both plural. The grammar demands no such thing. Clearly Paul in his personal letter ...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge The Bible also explicitly forbids AI to be used

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Your logic is getting more contorted and harder to follow. What do you mean that male apostolic foundation sustains this design? Are only Jews leaders of the churches around the world? Because they were 12 Jewish ma...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Well, your skill of analysis needs improving then. There is no complementarian (male only leadership) as divinely ordained. God makes that clear by giving the SAME commands to both male and female in Gen 1:28. Where...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Head means source as Adam’s flesh and bone is the source material for Eve’s creation. Notice how in the NT no one is the head of anyone except the husband of the wife, so if head means the boss or authority over, th...

@RustyGremlin @NickHenderson79 @UncutDomination @dalepartridge Head doesn’t mean

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge To think that after God gives auth

@stone_c45 @dalepartridge Phenomenal logic there… being a deacon is like working

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge Why doesn’t Paul use the normal wo

@elderthorkell @schism What specifically in the theology is far better? God tells us that in heaven there is no marriage and Paul says our marriage vows are until death and not past that (Rom 7:1-2). So you just want to believe something else? Why ...

@DanielleMc24097 @dalepartridge Goodness. That’s ridiculous. You think a man is in authority because he was made first then why isn’t an older woman in authority simply because she is older? You need to read your Bible more carefully I’m afraid. Thi...

@elderthorkell @schism I hat are your other reasons to believe?

@elderthorkell @schism How do you know that the “testified to by other mean” is

@elderthorkell @schism I was sincere. I have an open mind. How then do we know w

@DanielleMc24097 @dalepartridge No it doesn’t. You might want to read the Bible

@LDSMormon A Christian cult is not based on whether the leaders pay themselves o

@ThePolemikOne That’s the appeal to authority fallacy. Rather, one should consid

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee I’m glad you acknowledge that authority in the most intimate aspects of marriage is fully mutual. However, I believe that this passage is not just a side note on what is otherwise a husband’s domain. The verb exousiazō (“to ...

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Authority is referred to in 1Cor 7:3-4. Please tell me

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Your first point was that you are arguing from authority and submission, and I responded to that. You said: “And submitting to one another is elaborated in three relationships, only one of which (marriage) people try to say ...

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee If you want to argue from authority in marriage, there is nothing but mutual authority described in 1Co 7:3-4,10-16. Paul says the same thing to both spouses. There is no hierarchy in marriage. Having authority over one’s bod...

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee If head means authority, why isn’t it used of any church

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee Yes, the husband is the head of his wife just as Christ is the head of His church. My argument is not that this isn’t the case but that it doesn’t mean authority over—it means source. Adam flesh and bone what Eve was created f...

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Yes, but all subject themselves to each other (Eph 5:21). Verse 24 can’t contradict mutual subjection by then saying it’s only one way for wives to husbands. Head means source not authority in NT usage. Christ is also God, a...

@Nate_Dawg_64 @Toneskeee Head does not mean final authority. Notice how no pasto

@Toneskeee @Sewakiryang Why do you think head means hierarchy? No leader, pastor

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals I don’t know if you usually read the KJV, but the English wording here is misleading. The phrase “obedient to their own husbands” in Titus 2:5 (KJV) translates the Greek ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν (hypotassomenas ...

@deafwatchman58 @smashbaals Read 1Cor 7. There’s no one way submission in marria

@electri29693332 @SayvilleDavid @smashbaals There is only one head, not two. Hea

@annelikok @smashbaals As for marriage, there is teaching from Paul on authority

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi None of that was taught by the Apostles and it is the

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi Regional councils were influential, but not universally binding. Their authority extended only to their regions, not to the entire Church. The councils of Hippo and Carthage reflected the North African tradition, while the ...

@imaginaryheat @smashbaals Well if you want specific discussion on authority of

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