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@darylsterk I agree—authentein, especially used in its verb form, is extremely r

@darylsterk I agree—authentein, especially used in its verb form, is extremely rare in all antiquity. Yet since context guides meaning, I think we can still get pretty close to the meaning by carefull

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@darylsterk Again, yes, the focus on patriarchy actually seems to relate to “endless genaeologies” in the sense that it is because of their male pedigree that they are solely allowed to lead and teach. Though I’m not sure that this was the core probl...

@darylsterk Again, yes, the focus on patriarchy actually seems to relate to “endless genaeologies” in the sense that it is because of their male pedigree that they are solely allowed to lead and teach

@darylsterk I agree—authentein, especially used in its verb form, is extremely r

@darylsterk Again, yes, the focus on patriarchy actually seems to relate to “endless genaeologies” in the sense that it is because of their male pedigree that they are solely allowed to lead and teach. Though I’m not sure that this was the core probl...

@Saved5872 @MikeWingerii I carefully studied all the passages that appeared at first glance to restrict or prevent women from leadership, serving as elders or pastors or to prevent them from speaking ‘authoritatively’…but what I found is that in each...

@MikeWingerii Excellent collection of scripture. Leaders being the slaves of all

@AlaynePearl @BronWen727104 @turnedwife No, that’s not it. Read 1Co 6:2-3. Women are also saints, and that means they will also judge angels one day. So following Paul’s earlier argument then, women should have authority over their own head to deci...

@BronWen727104 Hint: read 1Co 6:2-3. Women are saints too, right? That means tha

Some say that a husband is the head of his wife means that he has the final deci

Instead of preserving the truth, it creates a parallel authority structure that

By elevating its own interpretive and declarative authority, the RCC can introdu

This inconsistency is itself an outcome of the teaching that the RCC has the aut

@bibleprophecyus @emilyjashinsky If this means authority over, ever wonder why '

@bibleprophecyus Only if you understand the way the Bible is using the term head

@nickschest @Rach4Patriarchy @celestialbe1ng Eph 5:21 says "and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ"⎯it's mutual. So your comment about a "prideful woman who doesn't know how to follow" suggests a prideful man trying to force his ...

@Rach4Patriarchy @celestialbe1ng What does it mean that he is your head? Does th

@AChristianLens @BibleInContext1 So basically, your authority is the bishops and

@Kamalamaison @iamtheguardians @tmsilverman @legaltweetz 1. Paul is dealing with a specific deceived woman teaching false doctrine and bringing her undeceived husband down with her (like Eve did with Adam). 2. Head doesn’t mean authority over but so...

@iheartJ37 @Pastor_Gabe @jerryzz2 That may be part of it, but I don’t think that “good reputation” meant that people didn’t think the church leader was crazy or has lost their minds or that sort of thing. So I don’t think he meant that the world acce...

@CoreyJMahler Give me just one instance where a leader, apostle, prophet, elder,

@CoreyJMahler Let me be very clear: I DO NOT DENY headship (properly defined). T

@autocorrect2_0 @Pastor_Gabe This presumes head in scripture means leader or ‘on

@CrossPolitic The thing people have an issue with is when it is made to seem tha

@Pastor_Gabe @megbasham What’s wrong with women being included in leadership?

@GrownInFaith @churchtalkative Not does it say he shouldn’t…yet there is Eph 5:2

@MariusM38610501 @faboIus Apparently that had to do with refuting those who saw God being the head of Christ as them not being of the same nature. Chrysostem is refuting that idea. There are people who see kephale as meaning leader over or boss of o...

@WillYoungIII I don’t know if you have rain where you live, but where I live, on

@ncksmith Imagine if the body was only female and the leadership was only male.

@uglygramb @instablog9ja What do you think Paul means by head? Does he mean boss

@bolajiayo @instablog9ja What do you think head means in this context? The autho

@PatrickHen1776 @Jiwan_Ko_Pani @oliverburdick But head isn’t about being the bos

@gtheking03 @Rich_Cooper But head isn’t about authority or being the boss. Let’s

@ncksmith Complementarians almost all believe that males alone are to be elders, pastors and overseers. Some go further. Some claim that a female elder is apostasy or on the way. That’s where their understanding is severely flawed. And the thinking ...

@ncksmith If you see a leader simply as one who demonstrates by example and not

@ncksmith Yes, but it’s not because of the system. God defined the marriage and the church as a one flesh source relationship so we would see and treat one another rightly. That’s the ‘why’ that’s often missing here. When a leader sees himself as the...

@StothersRyan @faboIus Thanks for highlighting these. However, even in these contexts, head can be understood to mean first or prominent—not necessarily authority or rule—which is why words for rule or governance often have to be added when authorit...

@faboIus As far as I can tell, the word ‘head’ didn’t start getting used for a l

No pastor, elder, overseer, apostle, deacon, prophet, or father is ever called head (kephalē) in the NT. If head simply means authority or boss, why is kephalē never used for any leader in the church? Why is a father never called the kephalē of hi...

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to work together and they don’t justify having gender ro...

@megbasham Hm. It seems in this case that some churches believe that their leadership should be only male. Fine. I go to a church like that. But if a church reads the text and draws a different conclusion without rejecting the inspired text, why are ...

@SonOfManXY @smashbaals In a marriage, man is the head of his wife and Christ is the head of His church, both are one flesh relationships and the basis for marriage had Eve made from Adam’s flesh and bone and Jesus provide life to His church. But he...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals But you changed the text. First, it says “a woman” not “women”. Second, the usual word for authority is not authentein. By taking a snippet out of context and even misrepresenting the details you can turn any text into a p...

@AndrewD82566840 @smashbaals Yes because no pastor is called the head of the church except Christ. The church doesn’t have many heads, only one. A head in scripture and in the contexts we are referring to doesn’t mean the authority over or boss of. I...

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick The church obeys Christ…yes. But when it comes to subjection, this is mutual because it’s not about hierarchy. Jesus doesn’t say that He takes authority over His bride—His authority is for her benefit. She sits ...

@LionofJudah444 @FNANVG @oliverburdick That’s right! The initiator doesn’t mean

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick What is so wrong with a mutually submissi

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii That is correct. So the husband is

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii No, the explicit statement is that

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals You are taking 1Ti 2:11-12 out of context. Paul’s purpose in writing his personal letter to Timothy was for Timothy to deal with the false teaching not the stopping of anyone teaching the truth to anyone. That conclusion ...

@BronWen727104 @BaptistLeaders At minimum, they should leave this as a matter of

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Leadership is about serving the team, not about authority over the team members. When it becomes about authority and hierarchy, it becomes about having to do what the leader wants rather than the leader organizing and he...

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Why do you think nothing gets done? We all have th

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