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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@BogdanOancea77 Again, I don't believe Paul is constrained ONLY to answer questions. He is correcting their misunderstandings and statements. I don't see "your women" in v34, but "the women" (nominative, not genitive as I think would be used for "y...

@BogdanOancea77 Again, I don't believe Paul is constrained ONLY to answer questions. He is correcting their misunderstandings and statements. I don't see "your women" in v34, but "the women" (nomina

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@BogdanOancea77 @Hansronsdorf Paul seems to be picking out statements they make and is not answering questions most of the time. The word in 7:1 is "matters" not "questions". The quote in 7:1 is "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations wit...

@BogdanOancea77 @Hansronsdorf Paul seems to be picking out statements they make and is not answering questions most of the time. The word in 7:1 is "matters" not "questions". The quote in 7:1 is "It

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@ekkiet @ChrisHohnholz Ugh...I just spent 20 minutes answering this and the response disappeared! Ok, one more time...going to copy it elsewhere just in case! Ok, you are missing some things here which prove that "the woman" in v14 cannot refer to ...

@ekkiet @ChrisHohnholz Ugh...I just spent 20 minutes answering this and the response disappeared! Ok, one more time...going to copy it elsewhere just in case! Ok, you are missing some things here wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@STRtweets Greg, I did a deep dive on this one. I think scripture gives us the

@STRtweets Greg, I did a deep dive on this one. I think scripture gives us the answer. PS> You might recall we went on the 2008 Apologetics Cruise to Alaska with you. https://t.co/ndFJKAjotR

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-25

@William_E_Wolfe The answer to patriarchalism and feminism which are on the right and left is egalitarianism. Egalitarians understand general differences between men and women but that these do not prevent qualified women from leadership. In fact, ...

@William_E_Wolfe The answer to patriarchalism and feminism which are on the right and left is egalitarianism. Egalitarians understand general differences between men and women but that these do not p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-23

@BogdanOancea77 We see the answer from Jesus in Mark 7:1-13. I would think that anything that prevents people from doing what God said. In this case, preventing women from speaking and preventing women from learning prevented them from obeying what...

@BogdanOancea77 We see the answer from Jesus in Mark 7:1-13. I would think that anything that prevents people from doing what God said. In this case, preventing women from speaking and preventing wo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-23

21/23🧵1 Cor 14:36 starts with the Greek letter ἢ. The Exegetical Dictionary of the NT gives this as an example of a rhetorical question we are expected to answer 'no' to. The Concise Greek_English Dictionary agrees listing ἢ as a 'disjunctive conju...

21/23🧵1 Cor 14:36 starts with the Greek letter ἢ. The Exegetical Dictionary of the NT gives this as an example of a rhetorical question we are expected to answer 'no' to. The Concise Greek_English D

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-22

In trying to answer a question about 1 Tim 2:11-15, I've made an attempt to comp

In trying to answer a question about 1 Tim 2:11-15, I've made an attempt to compress the explanation into a shorter post. You might find this helpful. https://t.co/owi1JZUELv

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-18

I’m working on a response to Mike Winger’s teaching that Adam’s naming something

I’m working on a response to Mike Winger’s teaching that Adam’s naming something or someone demonstrates he has authority over it/them. This would extend to others doing the naming like us. Do you a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-24

@BibleBashed Answer is the ISV translation: ”Nature itself teaches you neither

@BibleBashed Answer is the ISV translation: ”Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair nor that hair is a woman’s glory, for hair is given as a substitute f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-21

@JacobMillerAHA @MikeWingerii @cgp42 If it was, then elders would all be in unre

@JacobMillerAHA @MikeWingerii @cgp42 If it was, then elders would all be in unrepentant sin. The question was whether only males can do it. The obvious answer is ‘of course not.’

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-17

@MikeWingerii The view that restricts a person from a position because of gender

@MikeWingerii The view that restricts a person from a position because of gender comes with all kinds of difficult to answer questions. So the response that you quoted from that all men should teach

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-14

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris We are not taking 100% proof here, we are looking for answers that link together ALL the evidence and the idea that there's a specific woman in the church at Ephesus which both Paul and Timothy know about fits all ...

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris We are not taking 100% proof here, we are looking for answers that link together ALL the evidence and the idea that there's a specific woman in the church at Ephesu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@ymmotrojam @brmorris @CherylSchatz The questions to be answered are: 1/ what does the creation order have to do with deception, and 2/ are there any authority of the man over the woman conveyed by those present (God, Adam, Eve, the Serpent). No one...

@ymmotrojam @brmorris @CherylSchatz The questions to be answered are: 1/ what does the creation order have to do with deception, and 2/ are there any authority of the man over the woman conveyed by th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks The answer given to me was “this is our distinctive; why do you even want to come here if you don’t believe comp is Biblical? Go find another church…there are plenty egal churches.” I was told I could...

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks The answer given to me was “this is our distinctive; why do you even want to come here if you don’t believe comp is Biblical? Go find another church…th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks We are not to unnecessarily divide the body. It doesn’t mean that we cannot believe different things. For example, as an egal, I can submit to comp leadership but I know 3 churches where I asked the p...

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks We are not to unnecessarily divide the body. It doesn’t mean that we cannot believe different things. For example, as an egal, I can submit to comp le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-11

@LauralovsJesus @cpa_dallas @HwsEleutheroi Where does scripture say that man (I take it every man) will answer to God for yielding his ordained position over to women? You mean if I let my wife participate so we make decisions together, God will hol...

@LauralovsJesus @cpa_dallas @HwsEleutheroi Where does scripture say that man (I take it every man) will answer to God for yielding his ordained position over to women? You mean if I let my wife parti

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-11

@davbach823 @cpcwesterville @RickWarren That’s not an answer, it’s a scripture w

@davbach823 @cpcwesterville @RickWarren That’s not an answer, it’s a scripture which we evidently have different interpretations of. “A woman” and “a man” is not all women or all men. Paul knows how

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2019-12-05

RT @CherylSchatz: Are women pastor’s shameful? Answering John MacArthur’s charge

RT @CherylSchatz: Are women pastor’s shameful? Answering John MacArthur’s charge for women pastors to “Go home” https://t.co/qJIMmOJ0en #be…

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> Q: Some feminists say that there is no distinction to be made between male and female. Is this what you believe

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> Q: Isn’t the fact that God only chose men for the Priesthood in the Old Testament proof that God only uses men in leadership. After all the Priesthood is equivalent to the Pastorhood in the church

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In dealing with women in ministry, the question has been asked of me, isn’t circumcision a proof that God only wants men to minister through leading and teaching since God gave the sign of circumcision for males only to his people in the Old Testament. Did God give preferential treatment to males wh

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**October 2008 addition Note: A public statement regarding Diane Sellner’s role in the public attacks against me is at

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One of the key differences between an egalitarian and a patriarchal marriage is in the area of authority and will. In a patriarchal marriage, the man is set up as the final decision maker of the home and he is given the right to make a decision for his wife even if it overrules her will

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This is part two of the response to an article by Matt Slick of CARM called “Genesis 2, Adam and Eve, and Authority” found here

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Have you ever found that your discussions with hierarchists goes nowhere fast because they say they have heard the egalitarian arguments before and they are not willing to listen to what you have to say. Perhaps we are missing an opportunity to engage them because we are wanting to teach them first

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In this continuing look at the creation and fall of man, today we come to the conversation between the woman and the serpent

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In our continuing discussions on the fall of man we have dealt with the issue of Adam as guardian of the garden and the charge against Eve that she added to God’s word. In this post I will deal with the position that Eve did not sin by adding to God’s word but she was merely mistaken regarding what

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We have been looking at Genesis 3 and the fall of man. In this post I want to concentrate on Genesis 3:22-24 to see what we can understand from God’s words that result in God’s actions and why God judges differently between the man and the woman by bringing sin into the world only through the man

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Wade Burleson has produced a thought-provoking article about character assassination that comes as a result of fear. Wade writes :

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I got a special hug today from Dr. Cynthia Kunsman a very brave lady who has been fighting a battle against authoritarian spiritual abuse

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For anyone in the Pennsylvania area who would like to meet us in person and see the premiere of “The Trinity Eternity Past to Eternity Future Explaining Truth Exposing Error”, we will be in the New Ringgold, PA area at the Witnesses Now For Jesus Convention at the Blue Mountain Christian Retreat  Oc

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Wade Burleson has written an exceptionally thought-provoking post on the difference between one young woman’s journey through her pain (it appears to be a rejection of herself by a boyfriend) into the pathway of accepting a tradition that gives authoritarian license to males vs one young slave woman

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Very few people quickly admit their beliefs are wrong

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In the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood , chapter 3 is written by Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr

[general] From: The Emperor Has No Clothes

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This is the seventh in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

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This is the eighth in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

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In 1998 Wayne Grudem wrote “An Open Letter to Egalitarians,” and in the letter, he gave six questions that he said have never been satisfactorily answered

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## New debate with Mike Seaver

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## Is there a Second Witness that forbids Christian women from teaching the Bible to men

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## Are Witnesses and Repetition needed to Prove Women may not teach the Bible

[general] From: Mike Seaver And Cheryl Schatz Discussdebate Women In Ministry 4

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## Do Some Complementarians deny women opportunities

[general] From: Ask John Piper Do Some Complementarians Deny Women Opportunities

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## Are Men Restricted

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## John Piper: “What should a wife’s submission to her husband look like if he’s an abuser. ”

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Can complementarianism ever be considered spiritual abuse. Before we can discuss this, we need to know what spiritual abuse is

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The question has come up on this blog about whether Adam had a sin nature at the fall that would have been passed on to all of us, and if this is an issue that is important regarding women in ministry. After all, we need to know why it is that only Adam would bring sin into the world and if all of u

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On Sunday, March 21, 2010, a meeting was held to determine the fate of principal John Hartwig who had been suspended  earlier for engaging in conduct “unbecoming a called worker”. The Baraboo News Republic in Baraboo, Wisconsin documents the letter that was sent to school parents that announced Hart

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