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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

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

@imaginaryheat @smashbaals Well if you want specific discussion on authority of one spouse over the other, Paul’s discussion in 1Cor 7 is mutually equal in every way.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-17

@AuthorJanEvelyn @wilson_mar11767 If you are the true Israel and they are not then why are they living in the land and you are not? If the land is the whole earth than in what sense are they kicked out? Gal 3:16 doesn’t cancel God’s sworn, irrevocab...

@AuthorJanEvelyn @wilson_mar11767 If you are the true Israel and they are not then why are they living in the land and you are not? If the land is the whole earth than in what sense are they kicked ou

Gal 3:16 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-13

In 1 Co 9:23 Paul says he disciplines himself “so that I may be a partaker of th

In 1 Co 9:23 Paul says he disciplines himself “so that I may be a partaker of the gospel.” The “prize” and “imperishable crown” aren’t extra rewards but a sharing in salvation itself. Paul knew prea

1 Co 9:23 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@rfl3tcher @Toneskeee If context is key, then how can you ignore that Paul was writing about false teachers? And Paul speaks about women (pl) in 2:9-10 and then uses the singular in 2:11-12. He doesn’t say “women are not to teach…men” but refers to ‘...

@rfl3tcher @Toneskeee If context is key, then how can you ignore that Paul was writing about false teachers? And Paul speaks about women (pl) in 2:9-10 and then uses the singular in 2:11-12. He doesn’

in 2:11-12 in 2:9-10 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee I see. I beg to differ. Paul says whil

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee I see. I beg to differ. Paul says while churches can be deceived like Eve… “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds will

2Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Grump_Old_Man @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Ah, hi again Grumpy! Paul said he was responding to things the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1). After quoting from their letter in 1Co 14:34-35, Paul writes: “What? came the word of God out from you ...

@Grump_Old_Man @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Ah, hi again Grumpy! Paul said he was responding to things the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1). After quoting from their letter in 1Co 14:34-35, Paul

1Co 14:34-35 1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for 1Ti 3:11-15, you have to read this passage in context. Paul wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrines, not to stop anyone from teaching anyone else the truth. That...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for 1Ti 3:11-15, you have to read this passage in context. Paul wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrines, not to sto

1Ti 2:15 1Ti 3:11-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 Regarding the requirements for elders, nowhere is it stated “must not be a female.” The requirements Paul lists are related to character, things you can change, not things you have no control over such as whether you are mal...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 Regarding the requirements for elders, nowhere is it stated “must not be a female.” The requirements Paul lists are related to character, things you can change, not things yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@NavyServant_61 @Toneskeee @AlanChilde36050 If an overseer has to be a husband, that would mean Paul himself would be disqualified. How is that possible? And Timothy was also likely single. Peter calls himself a fellow elder, so don’t think an apostl...

@NavyServant_61 @Toneskeee @AlanChilde36050 If an overseer has to be a husband, that would mean Paul himself would be disqualified. How is that possible? And Timothy was also likely single. Peter call

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee That is also being misinterpreted as obviously the Bible isn’t teaching that universally all women can be deceived and men can’t or even that all women are more easily deceived than men. Paul uses Adam and Ev...

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee That is also being misinterpreted as obviously the Bible isn’t teaching that universally all women can be deceived and men can’t or even that all women are mor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@NoahDurling @DoulosDean68 That makes no sense to me. Why doesn’t Paul different

@NoahDurling @DoulosDean68 That makes no sense to me. Why doesn’t Paul differentiate between ethnicity and M&F then?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Only if you read it completely out of context, miss that Paul was writing this in a personal letter to Timothy, miss his grammatical cues showing he was referring to a specific deceived wife teaching heresy and don’t know wh...

@LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Only if you read it completely out of context, miss that Paul was writing this in a personal letter to Timothy, miss his grammatical cues showing he was referring to a specif

1Ti 2:15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in function and spirit. Shepherding Paul exhibits th...

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BaptistClips A bishop/elder has to be married with kids? So Paul himself was di

@BaptistClips A bishop/elder has to be married with kids? So Paul himself was disqualified? And he advocated for others to remain single in 1Co 7 and likely Timothy wasn’t married either.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad So you read Romans 3 and thought that there is no one who did good and didn’t wonder whether that idea would mean Paul was quoting Ps 14 out of context? Was your pastor or those you were listening to (aka the commentaries) n...

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad So you read Romans 3 and thought that there is no one who did good and didn’t wonder whether that idea would mean Paul was quoting Ps 14 out of context? Was your pastor or th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-09

@dalepartridge Also…Paul was childless and advocated for singleness. Populating

@dalepartridge Also…Paul was childless and advocated for singleness. Populating the planet isn’t the calling of the church; discipling the nations is.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-09

This is faulty interpretation. Paul is quoting from the Corinthians: “Now concer

This is faulty interpretation. Paul is quoting from the Corinthians: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote...” (1Co 7:1). Then after he quotes them, he writes: “What? came the word of God o

1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-09

@Truth_matters20 The problem is that this is a misreading of the text. Paul said he is responding to what the Corinthians wrote to him: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote…” (1Co 7:1) After quoting them, Paul writes: “What? came the wor...

@Truth_matters20 The problem is that this is a misreading of the text. Paul said he is responding to what the Corinthians wrote to him: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote…” (1Co 7:1) Af

1Co 7:1 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-08

@LostMyHats You confuse categories that the Bible keeps distinct. Dispensationalists don’t deny that believing Gentiles are grafted into Abraham’s blessings; Paul teaches that plainly (Ro 4:11-17; Gal 3:7-9, 29). What we do deny is that this spiritua...

@LostMyHats You confuse categories that the Bible keeps distinct. Dispensationalists don’t deny that believing Gentiles are grafted into Abraham’s blessings; Paul teaches that plainly (Ro 4:11-17; Gal

Gal 3:7-9 Ro 4:11-17 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Don’t teach false doctrine is what it says. A woman

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Don’t teach false doctrine is what it says. A woman in Ephesus was teaching heresy. Why on earth people think Paul literally meant that women shouldn’t lead when we have cl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Here are the facts: - Both knew the commandment and the consequences of not obeying. - Adam was right beside Eve and heard her voice speaking to the serpent. - Paul says Adam wasn’t deceived and linked deception with the t...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Here are the facts: - Both knew the commandment and the consequences of not obeying. - Adam was right beside Eve and heard her voice speaking to the serpent. - Paul says Ad

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As I already explained, Paul is describing a deceive

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As I already explained, Paul is describing a deceived wife who was teaching heresy, not anyone teaching truth. You are misinterpreting the passage and then claiming that yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Curious…who was Paul speaking to in the following? W

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Curious…who was Paul speaking to in the following? Women? Only women can be tricked? “I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led

2Co 11:3 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul’s clear statement in 1Ti 2:13-14 was that Adam

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul’s clear statement in 1Ti 2:13-14 was that Adam was not deceived though Genesis says he was right beside her and “heard her voice” meaning he was there to hear what she

1Ti 2:13-14 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen I’m confused. I mean Jesus was submissive. Paul was

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen I’m confused. I mean Jesus was submissive. Paul was submissive. So I guess it does end the argument for hierarchy.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Hm. So the Jews were first. Even Paul says “to the Jew first, then the Gentile.” Does that mean only Jews can be leaders? As for the fall, there is certainly something there to be explored. Paul says that Adam wasn’t dece...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Hm. So the Jews were first. Even Paul says “to the Jew first, then the Gentile.” Does that mean only Jews can be leaders? As for the fall, there is certainly something the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As for 1Co 14:34-35, did you notice that since 1Co 7:1, Paul was responding to things they wrote in their prior letter to him? Do you think after encouraging all to participate by edifying each other that he then silences ...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As for 1Co 14:34-35, did you notice that since 1Co 7:1, Paul was responding to things they wrote in their prior letter to him? Do you think after encouraging all to partici

1Co 14:34-35 1Co 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul writes a letter to Timothy with the stated purpose of having him remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines and you believe that somehow he also added to this the desire that half the ...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul writes a letter to Timothy with the stated purpose of having him remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines and you believe that someh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@notabreadliner @TheRealJamieKay @waltercool11 @TheLaurenChen That's the most misquoted and most abused out of context passage in the entire Bible. How about reading it in context? Paul's stated purpose is for Timothy to instruct certain people to st...

@notabreadliner @TheRealJamieKay @waltercool11 @TheLaurenChen That's the most misquoted and most abused out of context passage in the entire Bible. How about reading it in context? Paul's stated purpo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@MattTravisBlog @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 So now you've expanded the discussion to what...the whole letter to the Romans? Um, ok. But I've got to get to sleep as I fly out of Korea early tomorrow. But again, your comment "They refuse to let Paul int...

@MattTravisBlog @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 So now you've expanded the discussion to what...the whole letter to the Romans? Um, ok. But I've got to get to sleep as I fly out of Korea early tomorrow. Bu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@stablecross @ronhenzel Thanks for your interaction. wrf3: The covenant children inherit the land = kingdom of heaven on earth = the saved. Paul never says “children of the promise = guaranteed salvation.” He says “the children of the promise are c...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Thanks for your interaction. wrf3: The covenant children inherit the land = kingdom of heaven on earth = the saved. Paul never says “children of the promise = guaranteed salv

Ro 9:8 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes through promise, not flesh. Ishmael was Abraham’s son, y...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes throug

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@ronhenzel So no face to face debate? Aw. Paul’s burden in Rom 9 is not explaining why some random Gentiles go to heaven and others to hell. The prophecy Paul cites (“the older shall serve the younger,” Gen 25:23) was never fulfilled in the lifetim...

@ronhenzel So no face to face debate? Aw. Paul’s burden in Rom 9 is not explaining why some random Gentiles go to heaven and others to hell. The prophecy Paul cites (“the older shall serve the young

Gen 25:23 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 72, He explicitly told them to not bring anything with them and to stay with someone who would feed them and give them lodging so they could share the gospel with that town. That is the context of wha...

@HvacRoar24011 When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 72, He explicitly told them to not bring anything with them and to stay with someone who would feed them and give them lodging so they could share the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 I was responding to the post where you quoted from 2Jn 1:10-11...

@HvacRoar24011 I was responding to the post where you quoted from 2Jn 1:10-11...did you forget? That's not Paul. https://t.co/44fwFgnrHL

2Jn 1:10-11 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 This passage does relate to the Judaizers, those who accepted Chr

@HvacRoar24011 This passage does relate to the Judaizers, those who accepted Christ as messiah but then tried to push Jewish fables and commandments of men on other believers which was a problem that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Cretans are from Crete. Paul is speaking about those who are know

@HvacRoar24011 Cretans are from Crete. Paul is speaking about those who are known for poor character and false prophets. Also, that term "slow bellies" from the KJV is quite strange. Don't you think

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Paul consistently said, "First to the Jew and then the Gentile."

@HvacRoar24011 Paul consistently said, "First to the Jew and then the Gentile." (Ro 1:16, 2:9-10; Ac 13:5, 13:14-15, 13:46, 14:1, 16:13, 17:1-2, 17:10-11, 18:4-6, 18:19, 19:8, 28:17)

Ac 13:5 Ro 1:16 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 So you refuse to follow Paul's example? (Again, there's no temple

@HvacRoar24011 So you refuse to follow Paul's example? (Again, there's no temple...but there are synagogues).

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Yes Paul did. Read your Bible more carefully. https://t.co/BRMN8r

@HvacRoar24011 Yes Paul did. Read your Bible more carefully. https://t.co/BRMN8rlit5

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsmen according to the flesh...

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” ...

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who b

Ro 1:16 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Did Paul worship the flesh? Why did he go to the Jew first when h

@HvacRoar24011 Did Paul worship the flesh? Why did he go to the Jew first when he preached the gospel?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor wil

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor will it save him. Again, you keep conflating salvation with God's purposes for Israel in the flesh which Paul clearly state

Ro 9:3-4 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Paul the apostle says "First to the Jew and THEN to the Gentile"

@HvacRoar24011 Paul the apostle says "First to the Jew and THEN to the Gentile" ⎯ do you follow this?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I coul...

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Read it again..."they are beloved on account of the fathers" and

@HvacRoar24011 Read it again..."they are beloved on account of the fathers" and "for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" -- Tell me, when was the gift and calling of God on the jews revoked

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 However, in the last days all Israel will be saved. Paul says that they are being blinded in part until the fulness of the Gentiles has been brought in which hasn't happened yet. And THEN all Israel will be saved, not "then the church ...

@HvacRoar24011 However, in the last days all Israel will be saved. Paul says that they are being blinded in part until the fulness of the Gentiles has been brought in which hasn't happened yet. And TH

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 I said that no one is arguing about God rejecting believers. The whole point in Paul's discourse is about the physical descendants of Jacob and whether God rejected them. Do you think Revelation is complete? Who are the 12 tribes of Is...

@HvacRoar24011 I said that no one is arguing about God rejecting believers. The whole point in Paul's discourse is about the physical descendants of Jacob and whether God rejected them. Do you think R

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 In Ro 11:1-2, when Paul says “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew”, he is explicitly referring to ethnic Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Paul identifies himself as proof: “For I too am an Is...

@HvacRoar24011 In Ro 11:1-2, when Paul says “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew”, he is explicitly referring to ethnic Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Pau

Ro 11:1-2 general