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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals I linked to a post above where I explained the context

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals I linked to a post above where I explained the context. I’ll include another one here too as I added more details about the reason Paul gives Timothy his authority. https://

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the other half. You are misreading the text by not cons...

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@average_R_W_E @smashbaals John? That’s a personal letter from Paul to Timothy t

@average_R_W_E @smashbaals John? That’s a personal letter from Paul to Timothy to support him in stopping false teaching not to stop half the church from teaching the other half! https://t.co/ZQizsThB

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@thedoctor1611 @smashbaals Women are not permitted to teach truth to men? Paul’s

@thedoctor1611 @smashbaals Women are not permitted to teach truth to men? Paul’s purpose of writing to Timothy was to stop false teachers not half the body from teaching the other half! https://t.co/Z

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to stop half the church from teaching the truth to the o...

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to sto

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has stated he left Timothy in Ephesus to stop *false* teaching, somehow you’ve crossed your wires into thinking this is abo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Except I am not sure Paul is saying this because he is a Eun

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Except I am not sure Paul is saying this because he is a Eunuch. I think Timothy is also single. https://t.co/GdvFKlVEyI

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-02

A common objection to women serving as pastors cites 1 Timothy 3:2: "An overseer

A common objection to women serving as pastors cites 1 Timothy 3:2: "An overseer must be... the husband of one wife." Does this exclude women from pastoral roles? Let’s unpack this. 🧵 https://t.co/IWl

1 Timothy 3:2 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-21

@Crystalisives Yes, Paul was giving Timothy his apostolic authority in assistanc

@Crystalisives Yes, Paul was giving Timothy his apostolic authority in assistance for this task as it involved him ‘interfering’ between the silent husband and his wife who was teaching heresy.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-17

@Matthew56193629 @mtnhousewife Yes, you are correct that monogamy and producing

@Matthew56193629 @mtnhousewife Yes, you are correct that monogamy and producing godly offspring is God’s intention for marriage. Paul shows this by requiring monogamy and faithfulness for leaders. Yet

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-15

@MaineMinistry @MikeWingerii While we Protestant’s don’t technically have a pope, some get pretty close to this in how they treat certain leaders (Timothy Keller, Rick Warren, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, Billy Graham, etc). What is ...

@MaineMinistry @MikeWingerii While we Protestant’s don’t technically have a pope, some get pretty close to this in how they treat certain leaders (Timothy Keller, Rick Warren, Martin Luther, John Calv

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace The context is that Paul is writing a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from teaching false doctrine and to set things in order to help prevent this problem. ...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace The context is that Paul is writing a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from teaching false doctrine and to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-03

Rather than dismissing 1Ti 2:11-15 as 'culturally conditioned,' by reading this

Rather than dismissing 1Ti 2:11-15 as 'culturally conditioned,' by reading this text in context of Paul's personal letter to Timothy and understanding his purpose, we see why Paul is obscuring the nam

1Ti 2:11-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 Do you think Paul is writing to more than Timothy?

@carol66944 Do you think Paul is writing to more than Timothy?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 Paul was not writing to Timothy? Where does Paul say "to the church

@carol66944 Paul was not writing to Timothy? Where does Paul say "to the church at Ephesus"?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 The primary subject is given by Paul. We are learning by reading thi

@carol66944 The primary subject is given by Paul. We are learning by reading this personal letter from Paul to Timothy, which Paul understood would eventually be the case.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 The subject of δεῖ is always 3rd person singular in the New Testamen

@carol66944 The subject of δεῖ is always 3rd person singular in the New Testament. The subject has to be determined by the context. δεῖ implies necessity or obligation. Paul uses it instead of "you"

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 1Ti 3:14-15 is not talking about how "people" must conduct themselves. Paul is writing to Timothy using second person singular and "know" and "how one should" are singular. Paul is writing so that *Timothy* would know how to conduct hims...

@carol66944 1Ti 3:14-15 is not talking about how "people" must conduct themselves. Paul is writing to Timothy using second person singular and "know" and "how one should" are singular. Paul is writin

1Ti 3:14-15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-11

@BillVigus @MikeBrownsWorld @dalepartridge Paul was single prior to the distress

@BillVigus @MikeBrownsWorld @dalepartridge Paul was single prior to the distress. Presumably Timothy was single.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-09

@shr_eax @KiflaKajmak @OldPhilos @smashbaals Paul’s purpose in writing Timothy was to stop the spread of false teaching and there was a deceived woman in particular who was spreading heresy and needing to be stopped and educated. Not because she’s a ...

@shr_eax @KiflaKajmak @OldPhilos @smashbaals Paul’s purpose in writing Timothy was to stop the spread of false teaching and there was a deceived woman in particular who was spreading heresy and needin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@peace_got @Protestia 1. How do you know my personal desires? I alone know them and they are to be faithful to the intent of the text. 2. I spend most of my time explaining Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus. What are you talking about? 3. It is d...

@peace_got @Protestia 1. How do you know my personal desires? I alone know them and they are to be faithful to the intent of the text. 2. I spend most of my time explaining Paul’s letters to Timothy

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@TimGallantTN @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Imagination? Paul’s explicit purpose in writing to Timothy is to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” not to stop anyone from teaching true doctrine. I am explicitly using Paul’s pur...

@TimGallantTN @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Imagination? Paul’s explicit purpose in writing to Timothy is to “instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines” not to stop anyone from teachin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@TruthSynod @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Why are you ignoring Paul’s purpose fo

@TruthSynod @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Why are you ignoring Paul’s purpose for writing to Timothy, that he was to stop false teaching? Paul was not instructing Timothy to stop anyone from teaching

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@GodHatesUsury @karlbeni77 @smashbaals No it doesn’t. You are ignoring Paul’s pu

@GodHatesUsury @karlbeni77 @smashbaals No it doesn’t. You are ignoring Paul’s purpose in writing to Timothy which was to deal with false teaching and those teaching it, not to stop anyone from teachin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@harkening @SKokenos @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii If Paul isn’t speaking generically, you have to prove this using other clues in the text. Yet Paul doesn’t explicitly say “an elder must not be a woman” nor does he even use any male pronouns and exp...

@harkening @SKokenos @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii If Paul isn’t speaking generically, you have to prove this using other clues in the text. Yet Paul doesn’t explicitly say “an elder must not be a wom

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-06

@BoilerLevi @KaeleyT For a perspective which I think aligns with all the details

@BoilerLevi @KaeleyT For a perspective which I think aligns with all the details in the context of 1 Timothy related to verse 12, see the following. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-13

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Yes, Paul wrot

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Yes, Paul wrote to Timothy, but his purpose was clearly described to stop false teaching. The broader context helps fill in the detail

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-01

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii ...not giving general instructions to a church⎯tho

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii ...not giving general instructions to a church⎯though we absolutely can learn from his instructions to Timothy. I think you should not discount the specific woman view to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii What is Paul's point using Eve as an archetype of

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii What is Paul's point using Eve as an archetype of all women (what you have said elsewhere is 'womankind')? Are you suggesting Paul is explaining to Timothy that all women

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii It’s not even an imperative. It was written to Timothy in a letter concerning how he should act to deal with false teaching. If women teaching truth to men is a sin or having authority over men is a sin that condemns wom...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii It’s not even an imperative. It was written to Timothy in a letter concerning how he should act to deal with false teaching. If women teaching truth to men is a sin or ha

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I'm not sure what your point is. He concealed her

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I'm not sure what your point is. He concealed her name but Timothy was clear on who he was referring to. You have Paul concealing a command that women are not to preach

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul is protecting this deceived woman by not nami

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul is protecting this deceived woman by not naming her like he names Hymenaeus and Alexander. Since this is a personal letter to a close companion, he only needs to com

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I understand you see this as speculative, but I never said it was the grounding of the whole letter. Your view has Paul giving a command to all women to not be in positions of authority over men in a personal letter to ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I understand you see this as speculative, but I never said it was the grounding of the whole letter. Your view has Paul giving a command to all women to not be in positi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Where? In 1Ti 2:11-15. Paul demonstrates mercy by

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Where? In 1Ti 2:11-15. Paul demonstrates mercy by not naming this woman teaching false doctrine and instructing that she be taught the truth. Paul does not instruct Timot

1Ti 1:19-20 1Ti 2:11-15 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-30

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii The authority is not in the messenger but the mess

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii The authority is not in the messenger but the message. This is a fundamental flaw complementarians (and Origen) make in interpreting αὐθεντεῖν in the context of Paul’s le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine Except that qualifications should apply individually as one spouse may not have a teaching gift or the fortitude to correct false teaching. And also, Paul was single (and likely Timothy) and advocated for singleness so one...

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine Except that qualifications should apply individually as one spouse may not have a teaching gift or the fortitude to correct false teaching. And also, Paul was single (and l

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-18

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul’s audience in this letter is Timothy, a close partner whom he had mentored for years, and so Timothy would understand Paul’s language and intent, even if it included words with a historical connotation. Further, the...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul’s audience in this letter is Timothy, a close partner whom he had mentored for years, and so Timothy would understand Paul’s language and intent, even if it included

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-18

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Further, whatever Wolters and Winger think the word means in other contexts still does not address how Paul intends to use the word and the contextual details he draws upon, that Timothy at least must have understood Pau...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Further, whatever Wolters and Winger think the word means in other contexts still does not address how Paul intends to use the word and the contextual details he draws up

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-12

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Does husband apply to a single men like

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Does husband apply to a single men like Paul and Timothy?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

@samuel_costner @WokePreacherTV Yeah, you seem to also struggle with reading letters in the Bible in context. Don’t forget this is a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to stop false teaching, not to stop anyone from teaching the truth to anyo...

@samuel_costner @WokePreacherTV Yeah, you seem to also struggle with reading letters in the Bible in context. Don’t forget this is a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to stop false teaching,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-08

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT For sure people have had—and continue to have—faulty views

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT For sure people have had—and continue to have—faulty views about Adam and Eve. Yet Paul’s intent doesn’t appear to be to address specific false teachings so much as to encourage

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-08

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT Paul’s intent in this letter is to encourage and instruct Timothy in stopping false teachers. His noting of how he was ignorant in 1Ti 1:13 and how Hymanaeus and Alexander whom he names blaspheme with knowledge in 1Ti 1:19-20 su...

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT Paul’s intent in this letter is to encourage and instruct Timothy in stopping false teachers. His noting of how he was ignorant in 1Ti 1:13 and how Hymanaeus and Alexander whom h

1Ti 1:13 1Ti 1:19-20 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii You have to first understand Paul’s comments in the context of specific instructions to Timothy about how he (second person singular) ought to act (1Ti 3:14-15). If Paul meant to generalize, he would...

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii You have to first understand Paul’s comments in the context of specific instructions to Timothy about how he (second person singular) ought to act (1

1Ti 3:14-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii Paul is clear that he is speaking to Timothy and writing instructions so that Timothy would know how to act in the church of God to stop false teaching. Why do you then just immediately take his inst...

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii Paul is clear that he is speaking to Timothy and writing instructions so that Timothy would know how to act in the church of God to stop false teachi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Not only were women not

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Not only were women not to be priests but only one tribe out of 12. This passage in Timothy qualifies overseers based on character. https://t.c

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Timothy, he gives him his apostolic authority to hel...

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Ti

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@Flyoverland22 "I asked egalitarians a few times to blank stares this question: What does obedience or disobedience to this passage look like?" Not allowing someone to teach false doctrine like Timothy was to stop this specific deceived wife in Ephe...

@Flyoverland22 "I asked egalitarians a few times to blank stares this question: What does obedience or disobedience to this passage look like?" Not allowing someone to teach false doctrine like Timot

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-15

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual critic, Dr. Daniel Wallace on Pauline authorship of 1...

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual cri

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context and making sense of all the details including the ...

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@BeardedAcctant @SDungersheim @RuthAmyAllan No I don’t agree with gay marriage.

@BeardedAcctant @SDungersheim @RuthAmyAllan No I don’t agree with gay marriage. “One wife husband” has to be an idiom for faithful if married since even Paul and unlikely Timothy were unmarried.

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