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@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 Ultimately context is king and so we have to consider

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 Ultimately context is king and so we have to consider each reference in its context to be sure of how Paul is using it.

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 The context is what determines meaning. I’m curious why you think the clear terms meaning authority were not used but a body part was? When Paul says that the eye cannot say to the ear ‘I don’t need you’ is part of the head ...

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 The context is what determines meaning. I’m curious why you think the clear terms meaning authority were not used but a body part was? When Paul says that the eye cannot say

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem So God’s will involves violating His created order? Wouldn’t God be aware of His own created order and follow it? Who says a woman is the head of her husband? I’m certainly not. But I don’t believe head means authori...

@seditiouslibel2 @rightresponsem So God’s will involves violating His created order? Wouldn’t God be aware of His own created order and follow it? Who says a woman is the head of her husband? I’m cer

@StothersRyan Hi Ryan! I am looking for cohesive, in context answers that do no

@StothersRyan Hi Ryan! I am looking for cohesive, in context answers that do not ignore any of the verses, or the grammar, or Paul’s placing Christ as the head. The view has to make sense of it all

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-28

@aheartforgod @HootenWilson It’s more like “can you read the Bible jn context or

@aheartforgod @HootenWilson It’s more like “can you read the Bible jn context or are you only into taking texts out of their context to support your pretext making them into a proof text?”

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-28

@PubliusJosephus @MWWatHome Well, I’ve most certainly considered the context and it seems Paul explicitly tells us that it was for Timothy to stop “certain ones from teaching strange doctrines” (1Ti 1:3) not to stop half the body from teaching the ot...

@PubliusJosephus @MWWatHome Well, I’ve most certainly considered the context and it seems Paul explicitly tells us that it was for Timothy to stop “certain ones from teaching strange doctrines” (1Ti 1

1Ti 1:3 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usurp authority” (are men even allowed to do that?) an...

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usur

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in the NT, 'man' can mean anyone, male or female, based on context. So, if Paul meant both genders, why sometimes use the

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@haymes_joshua Church in that context was a group of believers meeting in a home

@haymes_joshua Church in that context was a group of believers meeting in a home. Do you recognize that as church?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Are you a pastor and you are not cognizant

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Are you a pastor and you are not cognizant that you have to interpret scripture and how easy it is to take a text out of context?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan If she agrees with me and sees how the whole of the context and grammar does not forbid women from speaking, then the only one with the problem are guys like yourself. Thus: “What? came the word of God out from you [males]...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan If she agrees with me and sees how the whole of the context and grammar does not forbid women from speaking, then the only one with the problem are guys like yourself. Thus

1Co 14:36 commentary

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://

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

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

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

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Scriptural context trumps culture, Jewish oral laws

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Scriptural context trumps culture, Jewish oral laws or Greek medicine⎯scriptural context trumps everything.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers But this is precisely the problem. When you don't de

@Heiserite @lutherananswers But this is precisely the problem. When you don't deal with Paul's own context first, why should we follow the Ancient Greek medicine argument?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-17

@Bamahunter2020 @Eric_Conn All scripture has to be taken in context. A text with

@Bamahunter2020 @Eric_Conn All scripture has to be taken in context. A text without its context is a pretext for a proof text. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-17

@HarrowingDell @Eric_Conn Head in the Bible in these contexts means source not a

@HarrowingDell @Eric_Conn Head in the Bible in these contexts means source not authority of.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals I have no issues with God as I don’t have proble

@HebronC777 @AJMxya @smashbaals I have no issues with God as I don’t have problems reading scripture in context. I also don’t have any issues with distinctions between M + F. My only problem is unbi

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-12

@BeanofChrist Verses that don’t make the point? My point was about God fearers and whether God gives these to Christ or God haters. If we take your ‘clear passages’ in their immediate and the greater context of scripture, regenerating a person befor...

@BeanofChrist Verses that don’t make the point? My point was about God fearers and whether God gives these to Christ or God haters. If we take your ‘clear passages’ in their immediate and the greater

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

@stablecross I’m afraid it seems it is you who is missing the context of the scriptures you are referring to. What is the “it” in “it does not depend on human will or effort”? When God chooses Pharoah, was it because of his effort? When Jesus chooses...

@stablecross I’m afraid it seems it is you who is missing the context of the scriptures you are referring to. What is the “it” in “it does not depend on human will or effort”? When God chooses Pharoah

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

Faith unites believers—not because it’s the same faith handed out—but because ou

Faith unites believers—not because it’s the same faith handed out—but because our faith has the same object: Jesus. Faith in 1Pe 1:7 is our faith in Christ, tested, refined, and resulting in glory at

1Pe 1:7 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

Let’s clear up confusion about whose faith is inferred in 1Pe 1:7. Does it mean 'our faith in Christ' or 'the faith of Christ'? @AletheiaHS says it’s Christ’s faith given to believers (see his video in the quote tweet). However, context and Greek ...

Let’s clear up confusion about whose faith is inferred in 1Pe 1:7. Does it mean 'our faith in Christ' or 'the faith of Christ'? @AletheiaHS says it’s Christ’s faith given to believers (see his video

1Pe 1:7 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-09

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo Both of us agree that ‘all’ and ‘few’ are both used (and are different Greek words). But you are suggesting that ‘all’ actually means ‘few.’ Where is all used to clearly mean few without conflating contexts (ie. not mixing th...

@AletheiaHS @immrbloo Both of us agree that ‘all’ and ‘few’ are both used (and are different Greek words). But you are suggesting that ‘all’ actually *means* ‘few.’ Where is all used to clearly mean

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-04

@flauridian Yes, a woman can refer to women generally but the context is how we decide whether there’s a specific woman or women in general. In this case, I’m arguing the context informs us there is a specific unnamed woman Paul has in mind. See if t...

@flauridian Yes, a woman can refer to women generally but the context is how we decide whether there’s a specific woman or women in general. In this case, I’m arguing the context informs us there is a

@covapologetics Again, I can read and I appreciate the additional context. Are you suggesting a single male pastor is ok then? Or are they and the congregation supporting them being unfaithful to the Bible? Or are you thinking it’s not a deal break...

@covapologetics Again, I can read and I appreciate the additional context. Are you suggesting a single male pastor is ok then? Or are they and the congregation supporting them being unfaithful to the

As for your counter argument on 1Ti 2:12, since when is Paul forbidding the teac

As for your counter argument on 1Ti 2:12, since when is Paul forbidding the teaching of *correct* doctrine by anyone to anyone? The context is stopping false teaching. Also, he says male congregants s

1Ti 2:12 debate

Yes, male specific terms do not always include women. Yet you admit that they can include women depending on the context. That is in fact my argument here, that in the context and aligned with the neutral syntax, Paul is not making a male-specific re...

Yes, male specific terms do not always include women. Yet you admit that they can include women depending on the context. That is in fact my argument here, that in the context and aligned with the neu

As stated previously, if ἄνδρα can apply to any person in certain contexts, then

As stated previously, if ἄνδρα can apply to any person in certain contexts, then given Paul’s gender-agnostic syntax in 1Ti 3 and Tit 1 and his own singleness, he is clearly not requiring marriage but

@flauridian The context of 1Ti is clearly stopping false teaching not true teaching. And the grammar of 1Ti 2:12 is singular, not plural. The explanation needs to be coherent of the grammar, the reference to Adam and Eve and the “she (sg) will be sav...

@flauridian The context of 1Ti is clearly stopping false teaching not true teaching. And the grammar of 1Ti 2:12 is singular, not plural. The explanation needs to be coherent of the grammar, the refer

1Ti 2:12 commentary

@Enigmaticx24479 @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic Where is an elder ever said to authentein anyone? The context is false teaching, not teaching truth. You are presuming that Paul isn’t allowing the teaching of truth but that contradict...

@Enigmaticx24479 @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic Where is an elder ever said to authentein anyone? The context is false teaching, not teaching truth. You are presuming that Paul isn’t

Mt 28:18-20 debate

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii The Bible is self-correcting. It's no

@heatheraaj78 @OrthodoxWario @MikeWingerii The Bible is self-correcting. It's not "majority rules" or interpretation only by popes and bishops who have frequently erred. The text read in context will

@RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic No, that doesn't work at all. You presume that elders are supposed to be doing what Paul says shouldn't be done in 1Ti 2:12. Further, since when was Paul saying that anyone wasn't to teach truth to anyon...

@RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic No, that doesn't work at all. You presume that elders are supposed to be doing what Paul says shouldn't be done in 1Ti 2:12. Further, since when was Paul

1Ti 2:12 commentary

@Enigmaticx24479 @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic You need to lear

@Enigmaticx24479 @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic You need to learn to read in context. 1Ti 2:12 does not say that a woman cannot teach truth to a man or cannot be an elder. https://t.co

1Ti 2:12 commentary

@stevebward I don't think there was consensus. The question came from my son who

@stevebward I don't think there was consensus. The question came from my son who had been watching Cliffe Knechtle who gave an answer that confused him. My wife and middle daughter agreed with Cliffe

@Grump_Old_Man I think my son asked a great question and I grew up being taught

@Grump_Old_Man I think my son asked a great question and I grew up being taught exactly what he heard from the teacher he was listening to. I give more context in the following. https://t.co/cmHybcwpt

@tattered_bible Many women avoid submission, seeing it as negative, and likely because patriarchal men see it as one sided. But understanding marriage as mutual submission all of the sudden doesn't seem so dangerous or wrong. I think most of these w...

@tattered_bible Many women avoid submission, seeing it as negative, and likely because patriarchal men see it as one sided. But understanding marriage as mutual submission all of the sudden doesn't s

@BigRedBetz @Peacemaker811 @harmonizedgrace People take Paul out of context and

@BigRedBetz @Peacemaker811 @harmonizedgrace People take Paul out of context and twist his intended meaning all the time—even those who lived at the same time as he did. https://t.co/fiRPAEqy6y

@carol66944 @subq @harmonizedgrace …and kephale (head) doesn’t mean authority in

@carol66944 @subq @harmonizedgrace …and kephale (head) doesn’t mean authority in most Biblical contexts.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-20

And if you are a male who feel he has a good handle on the only verse that appea

And if you are a male who feel he has a good handle on the only verse that appears to teach that women cannot even teach the truth to men, you might want to revisit the context and grammar again. http

@Matthew56193629 @BretArrigo @sher_qw @mtnhousewife Uh… but it says every man (andros, singular) in the context of a passage that mentions a woman (gynaikos, singular). Why doesn’t Paul say people (anthropos) or believers if he means that Christ is ...

@Matthew56193629 @BretArrigo @sher_qw @mtnhousewife Uh… but it says every man (andros, singular) in the context of a passage that mentions a woman (gynaikos, singular). Why doesn’t Paul say people (a

@BretArrigo @Matthew56193629 @R5Y79 @mtnhousewife It’s important to be wary abou

@BretArrigo @Matthew56193629 @R5Y79 @mtnhousewife It’s important to be wary about taking a verse out of context—especially when it appears as the only verse that says a woman is not allowed to teach m

@PatrickHen1776 @mtnhousewife @Jleerockwell Well, you have to say that im twisting scripture, yet my view attempts to take all the details in the text—grammar and context. If I’m twisting anything, it will be evident by examining the grammar and cont...

@PatrickHen1776 @mtnhousewife @Jleerockwell Well, you have to say that im twisting scripture, yet my view attempts to take all the details in the text—grammar and context. If I’m twisting anything, it

@NewestPapa @mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 Yes, thanks. That’s a good passage. H

@NewestPapa @mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 Yes, thanks. That’s a good passage. Here’s 1Pe 3:6 in context. https://t.co/JPge5soJWf

1Pe 3:6 commentary

@NewestPapa @BibGen1 @mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 Thanks Papa. @BibGen1 has bl

@NewestPapa @BibGen1 @mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 Thanks Papa. @BibGen1 has blocked me. I look at 1Pe 3:6 in context in the following short post. https://t.co/JPge5soJWf

1Pe 3:6 commentary

@walkingmushr00m @mtnhousewife 1️⃣, I’m egalitarian, not feminist. I stand for equal opportunity based on merit and in a Christian context, mutual submission (all set aside their rights to serve and love on another). 2️⃣, you know nothing of my wife...

@walkingmushr00m @mtnhousewife 1️⃣, I’m egalitarian, not feminist. I stand for equal opportunity based on merit and in a Christian context, mutual submission (all set aside their rights to serve and l

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-17

@mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 And then we can discuss context here👇 https://t.c

@mtnhousewife @Matthew56193629 And then we can discuss context here👇 https://t.co/Rgsy0eDeKv

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-13

@RusticSudz @HomelyHearth @BICBCI73 @abarefootmomma And I just read it in context, checking the Greek where necessary as sometimes the English makes interpretive decisions and I want to be sure of the original. Paul never said that consulting the ch...

@RusticSudz @HomelyHearth @BICBCI73 @abarefootmomma And I just read it in context, checking the Greek where necessary as sometimes the English makes interpretive decisions and I want to be sure of the

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@EliGhostGoon @rightresponsem Well, no attribution to Paul, reference or context

@EliGhostGoon @rightresponsem Well, no attribution to Paul, reference or context leaves one to wonder…It kinda looked like he was quoting it to let the world know that he also sees himself as the fore