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@Crystalisives @fab1usger @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I understand why you block early. Social media is hard. I don’t think people either talk the way they write or would treat women the way they write here even for the ones who are strongly complementa...

@Crystalisives @fab1usger @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I understand why you block early. Social media is hard. I don’t think people either talk the way they write or would treat women the way they write h

@fab1usger @Crystalisives @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I'm not suggesting that ideas don't come from or are not fundamentally based on things stated in the OT. I'm simply saying that Paul makes a clear statement showing that saints (which includes women)...

@fab1usger @Crystalisives @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii I'm not suggesting that ideas don't come from or are not fundamentally based on things stated in the OT. I'm simply saying that Paul makes a clear st

@fab1usger @Crystalisives @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii So is it correct that your view on this is that it has to do with showing angels proper hierarchy between Jesus->husband->wife during prayer and prophecy (only)? This seems rather strange to me...

@fab1usger @Crystalisives @TabeStorm @MikeWingerii So is it correct that your view on this is that it has to do with showing angels proper hierarchy between Jesus->husband->wife during prayer an

@amacarthur @ryancduff @bwillems1000 @MikeWingerii Yes, there are women who beli

@amacarthur @ryancduff @bwillems1000 @MikeWingerii Yes, there are women who believe their husbands should rule over them and that women should be quiet. Maybe this is why they aren't here arguing thei

No wonder he has such a problem with women leading! There is nothing in scriptur

No wonder he has such a problem with women leading! There is nothing in scripture which suggests that a woman was designed to not lead. Otherwise, what do we make of the women who did lead in scriptur

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-15

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Well that’s the thing⎯ Paul didn’t say women are not to teach truth to men. In Paul’s personal letter to Timothy he wanted him to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain ones not to teach s...

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Well that’s the thing⎯ Paul didn’t say women are not to teach truth to men. In Paul’s personal letter to Timothy he wanted him to remain

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-15

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Sorry, where does

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Sorry, where does scripture say women cannot be elders? https://t.co/VI2qbiI67E

@TheOmoAbake @Truth_matters20 There were women disciples - they were just not on

@TheOmoAbake @Truth_matters20 There were women disciples - they were just not one of the 12 apostles.

@rightresponsem @WokePreacherTV @MikeWingerii It’s a shame God gave women a voice and then command her not to use it, eh? That verse means that when he won’t listen to her words he may be moved by her actions. It doesn’t mean she shouldn’t teach. An...

@rightresponsem @WokePreacherTV @MikeWingerii It’s a shame God gave women a voice and then command her not to use it, eh? That verse means that when he won’t listen to her words he may be moved by he

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@AttorneyBrand Aside from no longer prohibiting those whom the Holy Spirit equips and selects, it is for the very reasons why complementarians use to disqualify them: women bring different gifting and approaches which men tend to lack or be weak in. ...

@AttorneyBrand Aside from no longer prohibiting those whom the Holy Spirit equips and selects, it is for the very reasons why complementarians use to disqualify them: women bring different gifting and

@timotheeology Forbids women from teaching truth to men? You need to learn to re

@timotheeology Forbids women from teaching truth to men? You need to learn to read more carefully. https://t.co/5pP2CX9E3y

@ERrad_ulcer @KaeleyT Paul doesn’t stifle women’s voices. Those who can’t read h

@ERrad_ulcer @KaeleyT Paul doesn’t stifle women’s voices. Those who can’t read him properly do.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-31

@Truth_matters20 Taken in context, Paul’s personal letter to Timothy was so that Timothy would remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines. Not wanting to name the deceived woman teaching heresy since she hadn’t been c...

@Truth_matters20 Taken in context, Paul’s personal letter to Timothy was so that Timothy would remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines. Not wanting to name the dece

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@dalepartridge @SecretCityChez So you lead the women’s Bible study? Women have n

@dalepartridge @SecretCityChez So you lead the women’s Bible study? Women have no capacity to teach themselves even? Good grief…

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge No, there you go again. Just repeating what others said like a parrot. Can you not think on your own? Paul repeating speaks in an inclusive way…all can prophesy, so all can be edified and all can learn. If you can’t as...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge No, there you go again. Just repeating what others said like a parrot. Can you not think on your own? Paul repeating speaks in an inclusive way…all can prophesy, so all

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge LOL. So only Pauline uses imperatives? Wow. Think @grok. Can you do it? I’m losing hope. Why is it stated that women are to keep silent?—because it is SHAMEFUL for a WOMAN to speak in the assembly. Really? So men makin...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge LOL. So only Pauline uses imperatives? Wow. Think @grok. Can you do it? I’m losing hope. Why is it stated that women are to keep silent?—because it is SHAMEFUL for a WO

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, so if I’m following you now, womenkind is guaranteed to be saved through the sovereignly promised messiah, so Paul creates a motivational bridge by using a conditional statement to exhort women to keep themselves f...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, so if I’m following you now, womenkind is guaranteed to be saved through the sovereignly promised messiah, so Paul creates a motivational bridge by using a conditio

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok so let’s see if I’m tracking: a typical woman

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok so let’s see if I’m tracking: a typical woman from Genesis 3 will be saved by the faithful perseverance of nontypical women as a means to eschatological vindication

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@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, but it’s not speaking about the salvation of

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, but it’s not speaking about the salvation of the they. So your answer is: Women will be saved if women do something? So Paul uses the singular in error? He should

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Didaskein does not mean authoritative teaching! There’s no ‘or’ in the text. Authentein doesn’t mean dominion. You made women and men both plural. The grammar demands no such thing. Clearly Paul in his personal letter ...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Didaskein does not mean authoritative teaching! There’s no ‘or’ in the text. Authentein doesn’t mean dominion. You made women and men both plural. The grammar demands n

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ah, I see. So as long as women instruct men during the other 167 hours during the week and be unofficial about it…like at Bible studies or any context outside of that 1 hour. That’s what God wants. Clearly you know not...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ah, I see. So as long as women instruct men during the other 167 hours during the week and be unofficial about it…like at Bible studies or any context outside of that 1

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Well, you said that women can’t teach truth to m

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Well, you said that women can’t teach truth to men so I was pretty sure you weren’t reading the Bible anyways.

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearly, “an elder must not be a woman.” Rather you have...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge 1Tim 3 and Titus 1 don’t even have explicit male pronouns let alone a prohibition against women. For the way you are treating this, Paul ought to have said it clearl

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge LOL…silence on women pastors? Good grief, @grok, how many individuals are called pastor in the New Testament? Surely you jest. Paul doesn’t ground his “I do not permit” in Adam’s precedence but in the fact that he ...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge LOL…silence on women pastors? Good grief, @grok, how many individuals are called pastor in the New Testament? Surely you jest. Paul doesn’t ground his “I do not per

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge To think that after God gives auth

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge To think that after God gives authority to all believers to preach and teach all nations that here in A SINGLE VERSE God decides to stop all women from te

@stone_c45 @dalepartridge Phenomenal logic there… being a deacon is like working

@stone_c45 @dalepartridge Phenomenal logic there… being a deacon is like working on a high voltage line or welding underwater. So women should never do anything dangerous…like leading, serving as a de

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge Oh my goodness. That is not logical whatsoever. You think all women are more easily deceived? Why then does Paul say that he’s concerned that an entire church might be deceived like Eve (2Co 11:3)? You re...

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge Oh my goodness. That is not logical whatsoever. You think all women are more easily deceived? Why then does Paul say that he’s concerned that an entire ch

2Co 11:3 question

@dalepartridge The Bible doesn’t forbid women from serving as: pastors, elders,

@dalepartridge The Bible doesn’t forbid women from serving as: pastors, elders, or deacons, police officers, soldiers, firemen, judges, or politicians.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-23

@Toneskeee @SpenceBrown3 What makes you think that only women are tempted to go

@Toneskeee @SpenceBrown3 What makes you think that only women are tempted to go to an lgbtq affirming church?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@annelikok @smashbaals Everyone is to follow the example of Jesus who submitted to us by laying down His life, setting aside His rights and privileges, and doing what served our best interests. Jesus’ example in Phil 2 is for women and men to follow....

@annelikok @smashbaals Everyone is to follow the example of Jesus who submitted to us by laying down His life, setting aside His rights and privileges, and doing what served our best interests. Jesus’

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-12

What is magical however is how some men seem to have an inherent defect—they can

What is magical however is how some men seem to have an inherent defect—they can’t learn truth from a female teacher/pastor yet women can learn from either. Why is that? https://t.co/oyzR5P3Vee

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

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for Is 3:12, this was after all the strong had been taken away. So even if it is referring to women and children, it would be the weak ones. There is a variant reading in the LXX which doesn’t mention women. Lastly that w...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for Is 3:12, this was after all the strong had been taken away. So even if it is referring to women and children, it would be the weak ones. There is a variant reading in

Is 3:12 debate

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

@SKArmsCo @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Sounds like you are talking about two differen

@SKArmsCo @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Sounds like you are talking about two different things. Egalitarian does NOT mean forcing men to be women or someone who isn’t skilled into a job ahead of a skilled p

@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

That women can’t teach truth to men or lead. https://t.co/IhwasgSeT4

@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

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Well, that’s what we are debating. It doesn’t say specifically that women cannot lead. I agree that all scripture is God breathed. But submitting to an incorrect reading—like the idea that circoncision is required—can be...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Well, that’s what we are debating. It doesn’t say specifically that women cannot lead. I agree that all scripture is God breathed. But submitting to an incorrect reading—

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain why women can be led by either but men seem to have ...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain wh

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but y

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but your statement is not Biblically faithful. Where does the Bible ever say 'women cannot be pastors'?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-18

@Gbackupx The Bible nowhere says that women shouldn’t preach. 1Ti 2:12 is in the context of Paul leaving Timothy in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach ‘strange doctrines’—but this has nothing to do with anyone preaching the truth to any...

@Gbackupx The Bible nowhere says that women shouldn’t preach. 1Ti 2:12 is in the context of Paul leaving Timothy in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach ‘strange doctrines’—but this has no

1Ti 2:12 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-16

@SamNato @ElsaAngel19 Women are saved through bearing children? That's what you

@SamNato @ElsaAngel19 Women are saved through bearing children? That's what you think the Bible teaches?? 🤔

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-16

@JosephGeis92207 @Protestia Ok, I would agree if you mean this person (male or f

@JosephGeis92207 @Protestia Ok, I would agree if you mean this person (male or female) should not be teaching heresy like this. Most see it as speaking about all women not allowed to pastor.