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@BrassVon @pauldirks @KaeleyT First, are you challenging my assertion of how women were treated in Paul’s day? Perhaps I should have said “often” as I’m sure there were exceptions. You’ve never known many men that would be willing to sacrifice thei...

@BrassVon @pauldirks @KaeleyT First, are you challenging my assertion of how women were treated in Paul’s day? Perhaps I should have said “often” as I’m sure there were exceptions. You’ve never know

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-18

@tradcathofwv @ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @HeidiSchlumpf @dearmisskate Hmm. I can see why Martin Luther had to nail his protests to the door. If you cannot even challenge someone by scripture because of their tradition, that doesn’t leave a lot of op...

@tradcathofwv @ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @HeidiSchlumpf @dearmisskate Hmm. I can see why Martin Luther had to nail his protests to the door. If you cannot even challenge someone by scripture because

@BrassVon @pauldirks @KaeleyT First, are you challenging my assertion of how women were treated in Paul’s day? Perhaps I should have said “often” as I’m sure there were exceptions. You’ve never known many men that would be willing to sacrifice thei...

@tradcathofwv @ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @HeidiSchlumpf @dearmisskate Hmm. I can see why Martin Luther had to nail his protests to the door. If you cannot even challenge someone by scripture because of their tradition, that doesn’t leave a lot of op...

@Nickidewbear @KaeleyT I think you are right in your “if…then” logic. However,

@DeeGoingsGirl Complementarian certainly means something specific. And the Danvers statement is probably a good summary of this perspective. I believe the Bible teaches an egalitarian theology for the Church and recognizes patriarchy in history. T...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT In that way of viewing things, even a butter knife is danger

@marciapiper @megbasham It's hard to see what Paul was getting at in these verses on first reading. Have you ever changed your position on a passage, or are you correct in every aspect of your theology? Can the SBC not be challenged by scripture?? ...

@btgolz @megbasham You could say that to everyone who challenges your view of scripture. Why don’t you actually read and challenge my interpretation specifically? I’m claiming to be faithful to God’s word and to be holding to it. And for those who...

@PastorTSheppard @Jgrey2003 @pastordmack Gen 3:16 is not a command for Adam to rule over Eve. If it was, why did God say it to Eve? "To the woman He said..." - The word "rule" is in the imperfect. It could be considered future tense. God is sayin...

@megbasham It is fine for those who believe the pastorate should be males to keep on doing what they are doing. But they shouldn’t be kicking out other churches that disagree with their views on this. Why not? Because it’s not a primary matter of ...

@William_E_Wolfe The problem is that the SBC should never have made restricting leadership to males a statement of faith. Where is a qualified and gifted woman teaching true doctrine or pastoring called a sin in any list of sins? Or is it just a si...

@trulyheisrisen @ortrails @goteamcarr I am conservative because I hold the Bible to be completely inspired in every way and authoritative. I believe the Bible teaches we are a kingdom of priests, and that includes females. 1 Peter 2:5, 9: Peter wri...

@CivicNatalist @jchasedavis Right, not everyone is a leader. There is considerable variation in complementarian circles. The point being that dividing churches because women occupy a pastoral or elder or overseer role harms the body of Christ. It ...

@YoloSwag7878 @William_E_Wolfe @bartbarber You are certainly right that if someone rejects what they believe to be the plain teaching of scripture, that bodes poorly for other matters and the slope has been greased. But there are many of us who are ...

@JustinPetersMin I object because the SBC disfellowshipped them on the basis of something that should have never been listed in any statement of faith. This is Jesus’ body, not the SBC’s private kingdom!! They don’t have to agree with egalitarians,...

@jchasedavis Then there are others who after studying the scriptures more carefu

@AaronOKelley @bartbarber Whether or not women are ordained or not is not an essential of the faith! Why is this so hard to understand? You don’t need to agree with egalitarians. **However, you NEED to work with them.** This is Jesus’ body, not y...

@RebelDissent @rightresponsem America is not under a theocracy. If two consenting adults do things in their bedroom, you have no right to punish them for it! if they claim to be Christians, the most you can do is remove them from the church. Yes, ...

@NateSchlomann It is the SBC who has gone too far and made a secondary issue into a primary issue to divide over. It should never have been done. The church is Jesus’ body and Jesus cares about unity. When you carelessly divide His body, you cause...

@megbasham The SBC adding secondary matters into its statement of faith (even though done years ago) is causing harm to the body of Christ. The church belongs to Jesus and Jesus cares about unity in His body. When we divide over matters that are no...

@AlphaMasculini1 @godlywomanhood Too bad @godlywomanhood blocked me for explaining the scriptures on this. :-( Deception occurs when you don’t have sufficient experience or knowledge. Yet they both knew the commandment. Eve recounts the words of ...

@SayyadinaHeresy @SpillmanThom @keirburrows @Saturniidae8 Paul refers to the creation order not to explain hierarchy or authority—otherwise animals would be over humans—but to explain why Adam wasn’t deceived and Eve was. Adam saw God creating thing...

@godlywomanhood Women are not more easily deceived. Eve was deceived and Adam w

@rightresponsem It is not the job of Christians to force Christian behaviour on unbelievers. This is the critical error of CN. "For what business of mine is it to judge outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are ...

@CovenantReform2 @GingerSnapKid Adam is the source of Eve since she was made from his bone and flesh, and so every marriage after this refers back to this original marriage and the husband is called the source of his wife. Paul is not talking about ...

@CovenantReform2 @SophieLuther83 @GingerSnapKid The apostles were selected before the start of the church. Maybe Jesus had some other reason why He chose 12 Jewish males...remember, there were 12 sons of Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel? Yet just as we d...

@GingerSnapKid Paul never treated women as liabilities or subordinates to all ma

@CovenantReform2 @ReyannaRice @lynna_listens All people are saved the same way and all become “sons” and receive the inheritance of sons. Man is not the ruler over the woman in the church, though, going back to the original marriage, is referred to ...

@CovenantReform2 @ReyannaRice @BogdanOancea77 @lynna_listens 1 Cor 11:3 is referring to the origin of marriage in that the man (ie. Adam) was the source of Eve. Every marriage goes back to the source of the first marriage for its foundation, and so ...

@BogdanOancea77 @ReyannaRice @CovenantReform2 @lynna_listens No, he is not just talking about salvation. For one, we know that in the Mosaic covenant, only Levite males without defect are permitted to be priests. No females and no Gentiles were all...

@aflawedmanofGod @ortrails @goteamcarr Being a Berean doesn’t require agreement but eagerly listening and searching the scriptures. In the church, believers are all priests—without gender distinctions. 1.1 Pet 2:5,9: “You yourselves like living sto...

@JeffreyPHo67012 @ortrails @goteamcarr It’s true that if they believe scripture is clear and they violate it that this portends worse things. If you haven’t heard a woman preach sound doctrine, you haven’t been around much or only hear women who are...

@aleciajonesnow @btgolz @goteamcarr And have multiple children too, right? Yet Paul who was an overseer and wrote this requirement is single and has no kids. And to boot says he wishes everyone was as he is—single (1 Cor 7:7)! Paul is most definit...

@DineshDSouza However, the SBC made gender-roles part of their statement of faith. While those who disregard scripture are most certainly in danger of becoming progressive, there are those who believe gender restrictions are not Biblical...because o...

@btgolz @aleciajonesnow @goteamcarr Women being pastors is never listed in any l

@TaylorRMarshall All who repent of their sins and believe on Jesus once and for

@SolaScriptura98 @ortrails @goteamcarr Yes, people forget that even contemporaries of Paul found some things he wrote hard to understand. Give it another 2000 years, a different cultural context, a culture that struggles to read contextually and thi...

@GMErectheus @abitztony1 @TaylorRMarshall Yes, I hold to scripture. "Peter replied, 'Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins." (Acts 2:38) But this does not mean you can baptize an infa...

@BaptistHoldout @aleciajonesnow @goteamcarr I do think this issue is harder to argue with conservatives because of this. However, you don't solve that problem by going patriarchal or by going woke. You just keep preaching the truth. We are not tal...

@CrtchtyMilenial @Bob_LeeIII @ortrails @goteamcarr I understand it as “spiritual murder” as this is based on its usage outside the Bible (it’s only used this one time in the New Testament) as I can see the linkage to what happened with Eve and Adam w...

@JohnAnders44464 @ortrails @goteamcarr That’s a reasonable question to ask. However, we have scant evidence for any specifically named elders. Peter calls himself a “fellow elder” in 1 Pet 5:1 and John refers to himself as “the elder” in 2 John and...

@ElonFan35759172 @ThomasDominus @_nomadic_soul If someone says “forget this scripture, I feel like X is right” then that is the path to apostasy. Where does it stop? However, if I’m showing what the Bible means with a high view of the text and bein...

@kevinmyoung But it is what my saviour and Lord left me to so that I would have everything I need to do every good work. “All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so t...

@ortrails @goteamcarr Yes! It should be based on gifting and desire. If God gifted her in that fellowship and she desired the role of overseer, then she should not be prevented or else that would be working against the Holy Spirit who chooses to gi...

@AlamoRememberer @RGIII This is not to approve of whatever lifestyle is being promoted here, but I'd like to respond to your comment on 1 Tim 2:11-15. In this letter from Paul to Timothy, Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching, not to s...

@EKHyland The saving grace for complementarians is that they believe that the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. So even though it is very easy to get out of balance, it can still work. For that reason, I think we can live in p...

@Emma506131772 @SaulMelow @HamzahSsebunya @Mwembugaoficial @_Huza01 @faith_nabushawo @Abusengz In the church, we are called a kingdom of priests. This is for all believers. “And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to...

@JulieParker144 “She [singular, only the deceived woman is not saved] will be saved [future tense (so cannot be Eve)] through the childbearing [definite article + noun, NOT a verb] if they [plural, the woman and her husband] continue in faith, love a...

@PubliusJosephus @njbemont @DickSaban1 Someone who serves as a leader of others is serving in the office of deacon. “that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you...

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien You have to go back to scripture to test all things. If the Apostle Paul himself⎯and even angels⎯ are subject to scripture, then so is the Roman Catholic Church. “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel o...

@granato50 @RevJamesCollazo @AnthonyJMHoward @JHF46thPotus @TaylorRMarshall The

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@AaronOKelley @bartbarber Whether or not women are ordained or not is not an essential of the faith! Why is this so hard to understand? You don’t need to agree with egalitarians. However, you NEED to work with them. This is Jesus’ body, not y...