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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or authority over someone. If it means this, why is it o...

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or aut

Eph 5:21 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Christ as kephale (head) is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished

Christ as kephale (head) is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished, held together. The life of the church flows from Christ as its source of spiritual life, grace, unity, and purpose. W

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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).

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or authority over someone. If it means this, why is it o...

Christ as kephale (head) is the one from whom the whole body grows, is nourished

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...

Similarly, when Paul writes that husbands are to love their wives as Christ love

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst What is the answer to the question “For i

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So then if this is nothing more than the other times in the chapter where Paul tells the other to be silent, if a woman has a prophecy or scripture or song or…, can she speak? Because I haven’t yet gone to a ch...

"If the church is the new Israel...and you believe that all the curses were on Israel and fulfilled literally, then how can you say that the promises given by the prophets in the same breath are all to be fulfilled figuratively? That is an impossible...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So Paul can't address the whole church and then speci

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst “Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy” (1Co 14:1) This is addressed to the whole church, not just men. Shouldn’t women pursue love and spiritual gifts? If they desire to p...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Sure but when a typical ‘whole’ church gets together

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I think you are making it into a definition. That res

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst One more question for you: 3000 people became believers on the day of Pentecost and they were constantly adding to that number. Do you believe that they were having meetings of 5000 or more on a weekly basis? Our church ...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Not as a requirement. I cannot invite 200 to my home

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Do you think if only half gather on a week that your restrictions no longer apply? Is that what all means? In fact, the text says if all speak in tongues and then says positively all prophesying. Do all prophesy in your ch...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Where did you get “the entire church” from? The entir

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So small groups is not the church gathering? What is

@carol66944 Sorry. However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to

@carol66944 However this purpose doesn’t explain why God showed mercy to Paul se

@ZEvans_7 @andrewhebert86 What if Paul is not addressing a culture-specific issue but rather an issue in the church at Ephesus? Paul is identifying a deceived woman teaching heresy whose husband is not deceived but silent—a situation reminiscent of ...

@mrssusanmorales @RonSCantor @MikeWingerii While I absolutely agree with what you said here, unfortunately Mike Winger also blocks people for holding him accountable. I pressed him for calling egalitarian teachers to repent and those attending egalit...

@NickQuient @VirgilWalkerOMA Yes, the church culture is very against women, so t

@JD_MWANGUHYA @LoganRamseySDG I don’t think that this is how God works. There are many errors in the church and at any rate, Calvinism wasn’t caused by them and has been around for 500 years and sourced from Augustine. I don’t know what you are talk...

@dixon_maso90190 Yes! Why would you ask? Calvinism is often found to be dividing churches. By dealing with Calvinism, this hits at one of the roots causing needless division. For example, one Calvinist pastor friend claims I'm semi-Pelagian, so desp...

@nobluczechmarck @DanielRHyde The church history that is worth repeating is in s

@ChrisA553925529 @Guitardo7 The gates of hell will not prevail against *the chur

@ChrisA553925529 I agree⎯not prevail against *the church*⎯that says nothing abou

@BawitdaBavinck I’m talking about the direction of Calvinism given its most pres

@BawitdaBavinck What is the problem that you see with what I posted and what I s

@mr_shiplet Well, it’s going fine as they appear to be more open to those who differ on these things than other churches I attempted to become part of. My timing is simply due to the reminder of how significantly these 3 contributed to the modern Ca...

@mr_shiplet Hey, that’s great! I’m actually attending a Reformed church at the m

@mr_shiplet I have been told by more than one church that either I’m not welcome into leadership given my non-Calvinist soteriology or worse, that I’m not saved as they claim I’m semi-Pelagian because I’m not a Calvinist. It is frequently divisive a...

@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...

@BiblesForFree Whatever did the apostles and early church do without Augustine?

@seizethatlife I sure hope not but I just find him down an endless rabbit hole l

@carol66944 Well, as in the case of 1Tim 2:12, not permitting the person teachin

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Before what? Before he was an apostle? He wasn't a beli

@1_of__99 @RevKimWChafee Where do you get the idea that male headship means auth

@JamesEwen0407 @sola_chad Sure there are. I’ll link a text which lists 10 of them. BTW, the church is simply a gathering of believers. If 10 people gather and none are appointed leaders, you still have church. It is healthier to have people appointe...

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

@slyoung687 Precisely. I’m not asking him to debate, but to discuss. And I’m asking him to substantiate his divisive calls to tell egalitarian teachers to repent and those who attend egalitarian churches to loudly leave and take as many others with t...

@slyoung687 I understand that. Mike seems to want to use his power of nearly 1M

@BronWen727104 Sure, I get that. But I guess then that this strays from what the

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage If Paul was responding to questions from the church at Ephesus, then why does he write his letter only to Timothy? And why doesn't he mention anything about Artemis? I take a different view which I think sticks mor...

I noted that Mike seems to be trying to single-handedly fix the church by pulling the biggest weeds—despite Mt 13:24-30 warning us not to. Then he posts on his timeline, “We can’t remove tares…but we must remove wolves.” So… not pulling weeds, just...

@VirgilWalkerOMA Ever wondered why Paul forbids women from teaching men and havi

@travismsnow If the church goes to heaven after the rapture, who is the rapture

@Natasha_Crain @MikeWingerii While I empathize with what Mike is currently doing and can agree with possibly much of it, his handling of egalitarians like myself has shown me that he seems to see himself as an isolated powerful hero that is going to ...

@PhoGroyper @dianahenryart @BeSaintly What Paul would say to those who think wom

@Classicist9999 @nosoup4knowles And if you recall, Paul was responding to things the Corinthians wrote in their letter, a letter we don't have access to. He quotes from it, but there are no quotes in the original manuscripts. To the men who think th...

@Anglokinist @ClarkeMicah Wow. So if they are wrong on those passages, the whole house of cards of their authority falls over, huh? To the men that think women should be silent in the church, Paul says, “What? came the word of God out from you [men]...

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@ChrisA553925529 I agree⎯not prevail against the church⎯that says nothing abou