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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-08

@JackmanRobert @CherylSchatz But Paul says that it is Jesus who appeared to him

@JackmanRobert @CherylSchatz But Paul says that it is Jesus who appeared to him and selected him. Why don’t you buy that Jesus selected Paul and not Matthias? https://t.co/AwUe3tIAii

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Jesus always pressed th

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Jesus always pressed the details. Did the man believe that Jesus was God or just a wise teacher? Was he worshipping a good man or someone who w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose 1Co 11:3 refers to the head of ‘every man.’ The Greek word here is aner but I believe it is referring to everyone, male and female. Clearly, the head of every person is Jesus because Jesus is the creator of all...

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose 1Co 11:3 refers to the head of ‘every man.’ The Greek word here is aner but I believe it is referring to everyone, male and female. Clearly, the head of every p

1Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose You sound like you are making things up.

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose You sound like you are making things up. BTW, if ‘head’ (kephale) means authority over, why is it never used of an apostle, prophet, elder, bishop, or any chu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Have you read Philippians 2? This is a perfect description of submission. Jesus also said, “Whoever wants to be first among you shall be slave of all.” (Mk 10:44) This is the perfect description of submission ...

@thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose Have you read Philippians 2? This is a perfect description of submission. Jesus also said, “Whoever wants to be first among you shall be slave of all.” (Mk 10:4

Mk 10:44 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@InfinitelyManic @thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose “You are My Son, today I have fathered You.” (Heb 1:5 quoting Ps 2:7). How can Jesus be eternally begotten if scripture says “today” about the incarnation? All persons were uncaused. Further ...

@InfinitelyManic @thatwit45 @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose “You are My Son, today I have fathered You.” (Heb 1:5 quoting Ps 2:7). How can Jesus be eternally begotten if scripture says “today” about the

Ps 2:7 Heb 1:5 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose No. God cannot cease to be God, but the second person added human nature to His nature as God. To become man He gave up His right to initiate. He had to depend on the Father. The scripture is ...

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose No. God cannot cease to be God, but the second person added human nature to His nature as God. To become man He gave up His right to initiate.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-07

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose He didn’t deny that He

@thatwit45 @InfinitelyManic @AF_Tugboater @LilaGraceRose He didn’t deny that He Himself was good. The man saw Jesus merely as a human teacher and Jesus’ question pressed him on his views.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@imnotderrek @MikeWingerii As for your last point about the persons in the godhead having roles. Bruce Ware uses the idea that Jesus was sent by the Father to suggest that the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father. However, what we see from the ...

@imnotderrek @MikeWingerii As for your last point about the persons in the godhead having roles. Bruce Ware uses the idea that Jesus was sent by the Father to suggest that the Son is eternally subordi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Well, it shows that 1Tim 2:12 doesn’t mean what most presume it means. If it’s not stopping women from teaching truth to anyone but has to do with a deceived teacher teaching heresy, and Jesus al...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Well, it shows that 1Tim 2:12 doesn’t mean what most presume it means. If it’s not stopping women from teaching truth to anyone but has to do wit

1Tim 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewhere in scripture positively. And Jesus explicitly te...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewher

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@ymmotrojam @5SolasMissy It surely includes at least those who do and will believe. However, 2Pe 2:3 talks about false teachers who “deny the Master who bought them” and later, “For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the kno...

@ymmotrojam @5SolasMissy It surely includes at least those who do and will believe. However, 2Pe 2:3 talks about false teachers who “deny the Master who bought them” and later, “For if, after they ha

2Pe 2:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

Did Jesus purchase even the false teachers whom Peter speaks about who are final

Did Jesus purchase even the false teachers whom Peter speaks about who are finally lost? 🤔 https://t.co/lYMlyMKkpo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Another thought for you to consider: roles are not

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Another thought for you to consider: roles are not ordained; attitudes are. Jesus had a submissive attitude, not a role of submission. We are all to emulate the submissi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley While there are things Andy says that I disagree w

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley While there are things Andy says that I disagree with, this isn’t one of them. What he is suggesting is multiply attested and also attested by Jesus’ own life and actions

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@susannemaynes Thanks, Susanne. The whole trick is that Biblical submission is about hierarchy and authority. By mixing worldly ideas in with mutual submission and completely overlooking Jesus’ clear example of submitting by laying His life down as a...

@susannemaynes Thanks, Susanne. The whole trick is that Biblical submission is about hierarchy and authority. By mixing worldly ideas in with mutual submission and completely overlooking Jesus’ clear

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

And God is said to be the kephale of Christ (1Co 11:3). Jesus’ body was prepared by the Father (Heb 10:5; Ps 40:7). Jesus “…came forth from the Father…” (Jn 16:28) Also, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him ...

And God is said to be the kephale of Christ (1Co 11:3). Jesus’ body was prepared by the Father (Heb 10:5; Ps 40:7). Jesus “…came forth from the Father…” (Jn 16:28) Also, “For I have come down from h

1Co 11:3 Heb 10:5 Jn 16:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

If submitting oneself to each other has nothing to do with authority, then why do people recoil at the idea that Jesus submits Himself to the church? It all comes does to the word “head” (kephale). Ever wonder why “head” is never used to describe a...

If submitting oneself to each other has nothing to do with authority, then why do people recoil at the idea that Jesus submits Himself to the church? It all comes does to the word “head” (kephale).

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

If you want Biblical hierarchy, then that means each of you are to put yourself

If you want Biblical hierarchy, then that means each of you are to put yourself under others not over them. Mutual submission is the explicit teaching of Jesus! We are not to “exercise authority” ove

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-15

@DanielRHyde What do you mean by “all along”? They didn’t exist prior to the reformation, did they? BTW, communion represents Jesus’ body which is the church and church ‘discipline’ is something done by the body, not by the leaders. About the conti...

@DanielRHyde What do you mean by “all along”? They didn’t exist prior to the reformation, did they? BTW, communion represents Jesus’ body which is the church and church ‘discipline’ is something done

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-15

@NicoSanchezUSA While I'm hoping for the theological system of Calvinism to fade

@NicoSanchezUSA While I'm hoping for the theological system of Calvinism to fade, Calvinists are still my brothers and sisters in Christ. The differences we have are no where near the differences pres

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@Super_SloMoe @bookkeepPLUS Jesus told his disciples to teach all nations to obey and teach what He commanded them. This was not meant only for males. And 1Ti 2:12 in the context of Paul's personal letter to Timothy regarding him instructing certain ...

@Super_SloMoe @bookkeepPLUS Jesus told his disciples to teach all nations to obey and teach what He commanded them. This was not meant only for males. And 1Ti 2:12 in the context of Paul's personal le

1Ti 2:12 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@BHarkins96928 @sola_chad Caiaphas was the High Priest at the time of Jesus’ cru

@BHarkins96928 @sola_chad Caiaphas was the High Priest at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion. Aside from being part of the Old Testament sacrificial system which doesn’t continue into the NT church, where

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Well, the epistles don’t forbid women from serving as elders or teaching truth to anyone. I asked the question b/c of the claim that the NT doesn’t list any F pastors so clearly they weren’t allowed. My response was there ar...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Well, the epistles don’t forbid women from serving as elders or teaching truth to anyone. I asked the question b/c of the claim that the NT doesn’t list any F pastors so clea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@slyoung687 Yes, but Paul nor Jesus tells or shows by their actions that wolf ta

@slyoung687 Yes, but Paul nor Jesus tells or shows by their actions that wolf tares should be pulled up by the root now.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@slyoung687 The problem is that by actually *removing* them he is likely going to harm the sheep. He claims he isn’t pulling weeds (to avoid going against what Jesus said) but then says he removes wolves. In the meantime he has stopped teaching thro...

@slyoung687 The problem is that by actually *removing* them he is likely going to harm the sheep. He claims he isn’t pulling weeds (to avoid going against what Jesus said) but then says he removes wol

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@VirgilWalkerOMA We observe in 1Ti 1:20 that Paul names those who blaspheme with knowledge and also talks about how although he blasphemed, he obtained mercy because he "did it ignorantly in unbelief" (1:13). Jesus showed "perfect patience" with Paul...

@VirgilWalkerOMA We observe in 1Ti 1:20 that Paul names those who blaspheme with knowledge and also talks about how although he blasphemed, he obtained mercy because he "did it ignorantly in unbelief"

1Ti 1:20 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@autocorrect2_0 As is “wives love your husbands”… As is “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5) We are all to emulate Christ, not just the husband. We are all to love one another. We are all to “s...

@autocorrect2_0 As is “wives love your husbands”… As is “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5) We are all to emulate Christ, not just the husband.

Phil 2:5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@Truth_matters20 @David_wthebeard Yes, Mt 11:27 teaches that no one can know the Father unless the Son reveals Him. But that doesn’t mean the Son only reveals the Father to a pre-selected group with no regard to our response. Scripture is clear that...

@Truth_matters20 @David_wthebeard Yes, Mt 11:27 teaches that no one can know the Father unless the Son reveals Him. But that doesn’t mean the Son only reveals the Father to a pre-selected group with n

Mt 11:27 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-08

@BorisNoris60406 @coffeelover4646 I don’t think taking a verse out of its context is helpful to understand what it means. Just like when Jesus appears to say that you must hate your mother and father, we have to carefully look at the context to deter...

@BorisNoris60406 @coffeelover4646 I don’t think taking a verse out of its context is helpful to understand what it means. Just like when Jesus appears to say that you must hate your mother and father,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-07

@OldPhilos @smashbaals Well, Paul definitely was single and wished everyone was single like himself, which means that if everyone followed this advice, there’d be no elders or pastors? Naw. That’s not it. Jesus is also the chief shepherd and he als...

@OldPhilos @smashbaals Well, Paul definitely was single and wished everyone was single like himself, which means that if everyone followed this advice, there’d be no elders or pastors? Naw. That’s no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@SingnRing Absolutely! The misguided emphasis on authority seems to be core to the problem. There seems to be a desire to emphasize and not diminish Christ’s authority over His church but Jesus doesn’t present Himself that way, always elevating the c...

@SingnRing Absolutely! The misguided emphasis on authority seems to be core to the problem. There seems to be a desire to emphasize and not diminish Christ’s authority over His church but Jesus doesn’

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

Regeneration doesn’t supersede the call to remain. John the Baptist preached “f

Regeneration doesn’t supersede the call to remain. John the Baptist preached “fruit in keeping with repentance” (Mt 3:8). Jesus said “abide in Me” or be cut off (Jn 15:6). Paul warned: “you stand b

Jn 15:6 Mt 3:8 Ro 11:20 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@josheber12 He stopped a woman from teaching false doctrine, but where does he s

@josheber12 He stopped a woman from teaching false doctrine, but where does he stop anyone from teaching the truth? He can’t as Jesus already by His authority gave all the authority to teach all natio

Mt 28:18-20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Conservati90559 But preaching Christ is what the entire scriptures are about. Further, Mt 28:18-20 commands all disciples to teach everything Jesus commanded the first ones. Are men supposed to take authority over anyone in the church? Because auth...

@Conservati90559 But preaching Christ is what the entire scriptures are about. Further, Mt 28:18-20 commands all disciples to teach everything Jesus commanded the first ones. Are men supposed to take

Mt 28:18-20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Jesus also didn't choose a Gentile as one of his 12 ap

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Jesus also didn't choose a Gentile as one of his 12 apostles. So by the same logic you are using regarding women, how is any leader in the church allowed to be a Gentile?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Yes, and that meaning is discovered by the context! These are not merely idioms, but sometimes Jesus says things like “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” which isn’t an idiom but you can’t take the “plain me...

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Yes, and that meaning is discovered by the context! These are not merely idioms, but sometimes Jesus says things like “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” whi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Of course I understand how Jesus uses stories! Listen, the teachers and scribes said that Jesus was speaking of the literal temple. The disciples thought Jesus was speaking about bread when talking about the yeast ...

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Of course I understand how Jesus uses stories! Listen, the teachers and scribes said that Jesus was speaking of the literal temple. The disciples thought Jesus was

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@5pur5y FYI: The teaching that both genders were in Adam and God separated out t

@5pur5y FYI: The teaching that both genders were in Adam and God separated out the female gender is nowhere found in scripture. And that Jesus wasn't a male is also not anywhere inferred or stated in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

@The_War_Within_ @MikeWingerii That's cute. There are false prophets in the NT and no one stones a single one, so obviously something is different in the NT. We are told to mark and avoid those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the te...

@The_War_Within_ @MikeWingerii That's cute. There are false prophets in the NT and no one stones a single one, so obviously something is different in the NT. We are told to mark and avoid those who c

Ro 16:17 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actions don't correspond to the idea of restricting wom...

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actio

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 Where does scripture say the church is put unde

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 Where does scripture say the church is put under Jesus’ feet? And about the head…the brain is actually split into two halves. Does that design tell you anything? http

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 Jesus does not present himself as ‘the boss of’

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 Jesus does not present himself as ‘the boss of’ His church. Show me where you are getting this from in scripture.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But head doesn't mean 'the boss of'. Yes, that's right, this passage is not meaning to explain to us that the glorified Jesus is the boss of the church. As God who created and sustains everything, *obviously* he's the...

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But head doesn't mean 'the boss of'. Yes, that's right, this passage is not meaning to explain to us that the glorified Jesus is the boss of the church. As God who cre

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@CoreyJMahler Who is siding with anyone against Jesus? Can you show me where the

@CoreyJMahler Who is siding with anyone against Jesus? Can you show me where the apostle Paul treated the Jews like you do?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-02

@JonByers186054 @ssiena017 @dalepartridge @GracefilledWomb I never said I reject all authority, just that God never intended that a husband be in authority over his wife. And yes, Jesus⎯though also the God of the universe⎯as the man treats the churc...

@JonByers186054 @ssiena017 @dalepartridge @GracefilledWomb I never said I reject all authority, just that God never intended that a husband be in authority over his wife. And yes, Jesus⎯though also t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@____Alice_White Hm. Well, Jesus was single and was very fruitful. Imagine if al

@____Alice_White Hm. Well, Jesus was single and was very fruitful. Imagine if all became Christians…wouldn’t that be enough? Isn’t that being fruitful? So Paul is advocating for increased fruitfulness

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@Am1argento @dalepartridge Would you die for the idea that Paul invented Jesus?

@Am1argento @dalepartridge Would you die for the idea that Paul invented Jesus?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@Am1argento @dalepartridge I see, so Jesus never existed but Paul did? And Paul fabricated Jesus so that he could get himself killed for preaching this Jesus who he claimed was raised bodily from the dead? “For the resurrection of the dead I am on t...

@Am1argento @dalepartridge I see, so Jesus never existed but Paul did? And Paul fabricated Jesus so that he could get himself killed for preaching this Jesus who he claimed was raised bodily from the

Ac 24:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-27

@PeterNDecker @BrandonABourg @sister_slay What does it mean to say that “God was an eternal being”? Are they referring to God the Father? Wasn’t Jesus said to eternally exist as intelligence that was later reformulated as a spirit being? Wasn’t God o...

@PeterNDecker @BrandonABourg @sister_slay What does it mean to say that “God was an eternal being”? Are they referring to God the Father? Wasn’t Jesus said to eternally exist as intelligence that was

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