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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

There are protestants who hold to the same belief, but it's not Biblical. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church is wrong on this one too. The church is the body of Christ. "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it" (1C...

There are protestants who hold to the same belief, but it's not Biblical. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church is wrong on this one too. The church is the body of Christ. "Now you are the body o

1Co 12:27 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@powerisnotmine @joyklaprade Causing any division⎯if it is unnecessary (which means it is related to primary issues)⎯harms the body. Are you the kind of person that is into cutting off healthy body parts? Excluding churches over secondary disagreem...

@powerisnotmine @joyklaprade Causing any division⎯if it is unnecessary (which means it is related to primary issues)⎯harms the body. Are you the kind of person that is into cutting off healthy body p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-24

@GodistheGoal @FlammablePink @GeauxGabrielle @myteacherafreak @MissBNasty In 1Co 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from the letter that the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1), and Paul's response to those who are silencing half the body of Christ? “What...

@GodistheGoal @FlammablePink @GeauxGabrielle @myteacherafreak @MissBNasty In 1Co 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from the letter that the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1), and Paul's response to those

1Co 14:34-35 1Co 7:1 1Cor 14:36 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-20

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe I think men ought to be able to learn from women because the Bible doesn't teach that women are forbidden from teaching men. What is so wrong with men that they cannot learn from half the body of Christ? I appreciate th...

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe I think men ought to be able to learn from women because the Bible doesn't teach that women are forbidden from teaching men. What is so wrong with men that they cannot le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Again, you assume that the death of the body means death of the soul. Lk 23:43 - Jesus said to the thief on the cross, "Truly, I say to you, TODAY you will be with me in Paradise." This statement suggests an...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Again, you assume that the death of the body means death of the soul. Lk 23:43 - Jesus said to the thief on the cross, "Truly, I say to you, TODAY you will b

Lk 23:43 Phil 1:23 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Jesus’ body died but His would did not

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Jesus’ body died but His would did not. If you didn’t believe the Watchtower’s teachings on the soul you would see this clearly

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-13

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Right, he would be there too. But Jesu

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi Right, he would be there too. But Jesus said *today.* You can’t escape what Jesus said just because you believe the Watchtower teaching on non-existence when

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-10

@Redsabr @cjonesaudio @paulogia0 It’s the immaterial conscious eternal entity that is put in your body by God at conception. That’s my belief based on Biblical statements, however, so I don’t expect you to agree. However, you can see evidence suppor...

@Redsabr @cjonesaudio @paulogia0 It’s the immaterial conscious eternal entity that is put in your body by God at conception. That’s my belief based on Biblical statements, however, so I don’t expect y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@lyn_kidson @JollyStine @ronhenzel Do we need Augustine when we have 1 Cor 7? 1 Cor 7:3-5 “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the...

@lyn_kidson @JollyStine @ronhenzel Do we need Augustine when we have 1 Cor 7? 1 Cor 7:3-5 “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife

1 Cor 7:3-5 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@ronhenzel Here are some verses showing how God cares a LOT about unity of His body. How about these verses? Eph 4:1-6⎯Paul urges believers to live in a manner worthy of their calling, emphasizing unity and peace. 1 Cor 1:10⎯Paul appeals for unity...

@ronhenzel Here are some verses showing how God cares a LOT about unity of His body. How about these verses? Eph 4:1-6⎯Paul urges believers to live in a manner worthy of their calling, emphasizing u

1 Cor 1:10 Eph 4:1-6 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@KimberleeJayneW Recommending people to leave their church if they have a female pastor is not divisive? If half the church left, that’s not dividing the body? I’m egalitarian and I have no problem attending and supporting a complementarian church ...

@KimberleeJayneW Recommending people to leave their church if they have a female pastor is not divisive? If half the church left, that’s not dividing the body? I’m egalitarian and I have no problem

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

@VoicesHead100 @kgaugelo_N @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Wow, was that a complement? Have you heard of a 500 word dissertation? Might be a record! 😊 I agree we don’t need a class to interpret the word, but God...

@VoicesHead100 @kgaugelo_N @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Wow, was that a complement? Have you heard of a 500 word dissertation? Might be a record! 😊 I agree we

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-06

@DesCWilliamson @William_E_Wolfe Regardless of what was depicted the scripture i

@DesCWilliamson @William_E_Wolfe Regardless of what was depicted the scripture is the basis of the church. Jesus is the chief shepherd of His church then and now since we who believe are His body, lea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-06

@ripchurch1 @William_E_Wolfe You are right, this is about service, not "titles" and positions of authority. I see you differentiate church as an organization from the gathered body of believers. All believers constitute the church. While we may organ...

@ripchurch1 @William_E_Wolfe You are right, this is about service, not "titles" and positions of authority. I see you differentiate church as an organization from the gathered body of believers. All b

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-04

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi There is nothing in scripture indicating the angels "discarded the body." Lazarus is proof that a body 4 days dead can be raised using the same body. "Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It wa...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi There is nothing in scripture indicating the angels "discarded the body." Lazarus is proof that a body 4 days dead can be raised using the same body. "Jesu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-03

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I was reflecting your beliefs. Didn't

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I was reflecting your beliefs. Didn't you say to me earlier that angels took Jesus' body to heaven (which is why it wasn't still in the tomb)? If not, then w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-02

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I mean that the Watchtower teaches tha

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I mean that the Watchtower teaches that when Jesus died, there was nothing that survived His body except memories, like pictures. https://t.co/73DnOhRGIx

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-01

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The Watchtower teaches a ‘life force’ that is gone when you die (cease to exist). The scripture indicates that our spirit lives beyond the death of our body: The belief in the spirit or soul's existence bey...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi The Watchtower teaches a ‘life force’ that is gone when you die (cease to exist). The scripture indicates that our spirit lives beyond the death of our body:

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-29

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @JessicaScroggin @HwsEleutheroi This is JW teaching⎯soul sleep and recreating us from God's memory of us. That's not how it works. Our soul survives our body such that when my body dies, my soul goes to be with Jesus. My so...

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @JessicaScroggin @HwsEleutheroi This is JW teaching⎯soul sleep and recreating us from God's memory of us. That's not how it works. Our soul survives our body such that when

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-16

@DeeGoingsGirl It is the same theology but he seems to really get the serving part. A leader who sees his primary role as serving and others in the body as part of his body isn’t commanding and abusive. He said this: “The Bible has a different co...

@DeeGoingsGirl It is the same theology but he seems to really get the serving part. A leader who sees his primary role as serving and others in the body as part of his body isn’t commanding and abusi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-16

@TheMuppetPastor @MrsMagdaBeard There’s just one problem: Eph 5:21⎯ "and subjec

@TheMuppetPastor @MrsMagdaBeard There’s just one problem: Eph 5:21⎯ "and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ” (Eph 5:21 NASB 2020). Everyone in the body to everyone in the body.

Eph 5:21 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-16

Often the idea that no matter the gifting of a woman, she needs to refrain from

Often the idea that no matter the gifting of a woman, she needs to refrain from using it in the context of the body because of the symbolism of the wite to the body of Christ and the husband to Christ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

@EtAbundatGratia No, none of those verses tell wives to "obey" their husbands li

@EtAbundatGratia No, none of those verses tell wives to "obey" their husbands like children obey their parents. To subject yourself to others is something we are all to do to one another in the body

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-13

@Duke456521 I have met pastors who feel it is their job to setup a completely distinct local fellowship, so they have a right to exclude people from leadership whom they disagree with on secondary matters. However, the church belongs to Jesus. Rest...

@Duke456521 I have met pastors who feel it is their job to setup a completely distinct local fellowship, so they have a right to exclude people from leadership whom they disagree with on secondary mat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-07

@AaronInWriting I thought this just refers to those who are in full time ministr

@AaronInWriting I thought this just refers to those who are in full time ministry and receive their living from it, not that they are more right or better than someone else in the body of Christ.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-17

@DST_QA @sympatheticNPC @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam We of course think that subjecting yourself to all in the body is serving Christ. But what you are suggesting is that the wife must have a special submission and that it is to be led not to serve. ...

@DST_QA @sympatheticNPC @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam We of course think that subjecting yourself to all in the body is serving Christ. But what you are suggesting is that the wife must have a special s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-15

@DST_QA @sympatheticNPC “Women and children have wilfull submission” All submission is to be willful. Did you forget that men need to submit to all in the body too? If so, then submission has nothing to do with authority otherwise mutual submissio...

@DST_QA @sympatheticNPC “Women and children have wilfull submission” All submission is to be willful. Did you forget that men need to submit to all in the body too? If so, then submission has nothi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-04

By banning women…even from administering communion, churches have no choice but to leave these denominations. It is these denominations that are causing division. Jesus cares about the unity of His body and causing division over these matters is no...

By banning women…even from administering communion, churches have no choice but to leave these denominations. It is these denominations that are causing division. Jesus cares about the unity of His

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-03

@pastherandie @Pathfinder4545 @ChristVictorous @Brian_Sauve Yes! And from Adam’s own flesh making her literally part of his own body (which is why marriage is considered a one flesh union). The reason Paul refers to the creation order is not becaus...

@pastherandie @Pathfinder4545 @ChristVictorous @Brian_Sauve Yes! And from Adam’s own flesh making her literally part of his own body (which is why marriage is considered a one flesh union). The reas

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-03

@pastherandie @lastadolphin @Brian_Sauve This is actually the one instance where authority over the spouse is even mentioned! (I know of no other reference) "The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the...

@pastherandie @lastadolphin @Brian_Sauve This is actually the one instance where authority over the spouse is even mentioned! (I know of no other reference) "The wife does not have authority over he

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-30

@Duke456521 First, James White is most definitely not an egalitarian. But his grammar is right and people respect him (I am a nobody). The video is really short and only addresses this one point on the anaphoric use of the article. Second, how is ...

@Duke456521 First, James White is most definitely not an egalitarian. But his grammar is right and people respect him (I am a nobody). The video is really short and only addresses this one point on

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ZacharyGarris @JohnnyABenson I am an egalitarian. I believe in mutual submission one to another in the body of Christ (which means wives to husbands and husbands to wives, congregants to pastors and pastors to congregants). Women are not restricte...

@ZacharyGarris @JohnnyABenson I am an egalitarian. I believe in mutual submission one to another in the body of Christ (which means wives to husbands and husbands to wives, congregants to pastors and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 As far as I know, complementarians all say that women are equal in worth, value and honor. But they don’t treat them that way because they act in a way that shows they value males more highly than females. You say it’s ju...

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 As far as I know, complementarians all say that women are equal in worth, value and honor. But they don’t treat them that way because they act in a way that shows they valu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 That's great! I'm not contending that people don't submit to this structure and that it can't work. My energy is on this topic because of those who are causing division in the body because of it. BTW, there was a group c...

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 That's great! I'm not contending that people don't submit to this structure and that it can't work. My energy is on this topic because of those who are causing division in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@RushiXmakima Thanks for contributing! I agree that at least the way we view pastors today goes beyond what they were in the first churches. Today we seem to desire a charismatic leader, someone who will just tell us what to do, rather than someone...

@RushiXmakima Thanks for contributing! I agree that at least the way we view pastors today goes beyond what they were in the first churches. Today we seem to desire a charismatic leader, someone who

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 You are explicitly commanded to not forbid speaking in tongues. And if you do not forbid this, then speaking in an intelligent language (which is far better according to Paul) should not be forbidden either. But you are f...

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 You are explicitly commanded to not forbid speaking in tongues. And if you do not forbid this, then speaking in an intelligent language (which is far better according to Pa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam The church is not a building, it is any gathering of people. Prophecy is not intended to be done in your closet! It is meant for the edification, encouragement and correction of the body. What good is it to say that the ...

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam The church is not a building, it is any gathering of people. Prophecy is not intended to be done in your closet! It is meant for the edification, encouragement and correct

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@renoomokri However, in that passage, Paul was actually quoting from the letter

@renoomokri However, in that passage, Paul was actually quoting from the letter the Corinthians’ prior letter and rebuking those silencing half the body of Christ. You are mistaken. https://t.co/WHlr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-08

@sanothomas 1 Cor 14:34-35 is actually the Apostle Paul quoting from a letter he received from the Corinthians; Paul is rebuking those men who are silencing half of the body: “What? Came the word of God out from you [men]? Or came it unto you [men] o...

@sanothomas 1 Cor 14:34-35 is actually the Apostle Paul quoting from a letter he received from the Corinthians; Paul is rebuking those men who are silencing half of the body: “What? Came the word of G

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Cor 14:36 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-06

@OrderChristian @Brian_Sauve That’s a bummer for the single! Paul was quoting f

@OrderChristian @Brian_Sauve That’s a bummer for the single! Paul was quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote him…and rebuking those men barring half the body from participating. https://t.co/W

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-04

@revdean100 @LinkedIn Except if Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote him and refuting the men who are silencing half the body (ie v36 (KJV): “What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto you [men] only?”). So Paul ...

@revdean100 @LinkedIn Except if Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote him and refuting the men who are silencing half the body (ie v36 (KJV): “What? came the word of God out from you [

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@LadyDemosthenes @OPRisely @pgklee @mark_petereit You are right, but the command to subject themselves is an imperative. It would seem that if they don’t, some other actions may follow. But these verses are Paul quoting from the letter from the Cor...

@LadyDemosthenes @OPRisely @pgklee @mark_petereit You are right, but the command to subject themselves is an imperative. It would seem that if they don’t, some other actions may follow. But these ve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@DickSaban1 @Peacemaker811 @PubliusJosephus “For the husband is the source of the wife (since marriage is defined by the first couple and Eve came from Adam’s flesh and bone), as Christ also is the source of the church (how?) He Himself being the Sav...

@DickSaban1 @Peacemaker811 @PubliusJosephus “For the husband is the source of the wife (since marriage is defined by the first couple and Eve came from Adam’s flesh and bone), as Christ also is the so

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@TruthSeekerTKS @SamuelJJack2 Paul wasn’t silencing women, but quoting from the

@TruthSeekerTKS @SamuelJJack2 Paul wasn’t silencing women, but quoting from the Judiazers in the Corinthian church who wrote what Paul quoted in vv34-35 and then Paul rebuked these men for silencing h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@LadyDemosthenes @roguebenoir For 1 Cor 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from Judiazers

@LadyDemosthenes @roguebenoir For 1 Cor 14:34-35, Paul is quoting from Judiazers in the Corinthian church who wrote this in their letter to Paul. He rebukes them for silencing half the body. Yes, re

1 Cor 14:34-35 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@LadyDemosthenes No, this isn’t true. These verses are all being taken out of context. Please take another look. 1 Cor 14:34-35 is Paul quoting from the letter from the Corinthians and rebuking the men that are silencing half the body of Christ. ...

@LadyDemosthenes No, this isn’t true. These verses are all being taken out of context. Please take another look. 1 Cor 14:34-35 is Paul quoting from the letter from the Corinthians and rebuking the

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Tim 2:11-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@elizabethprata @aimeebyrdPYW Except it’s forbidden as Paul is quoting from the

@elizabethprata @aimeebyrdPYW Except it’s forbidden as Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians and rebuking the men silencing half the body of Christ… https://t.co/WHlrSQvbxX

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@IanThom01 @SamuelJJack2 Well, no, women (and men) are not supposed to teach false doctrine…God doesn’t stop anyone from speaking truth. That passage in 1 Cor 14:34-35 is Paul quoting form the letter from the Corinthians and rebuking the men silenci...

@IanThom01 @SamuelJJack2 Well, no, women (and men) are not supposed to teach false doctrine…God doesn’t stop anyone from speaking truth. That passage in 1 Cor 14:34-35 is Paul quoting form the letter

1 Cor 14:34-35 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@OliviaTuggle81 @IndictTheReich @LEBassett Ok, well, except that this was Paul quoting from some Judiazers in the Corinthian church who wrote that in their letter to Paul (ref 1 Cor 7:1). Paul was rebuking them from silencing half the body! “What? ...

@OliviaTuggle81 @IndictTheReich @LEBassett Ok, well, except that this was Paul quoting from some Judiazers in the Corinthian church who wrote that in their letter to Paul (ref 1 Cor 7:1). Paul was re

1 Cor 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-03

@elizabethprata @the_punk_god In this passage, Paul is quoting from the letter t

@elizabethprata @the_punk_god In this passage, Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1 Cor 7:1) and refuting those men who were trying to silence half the body. https://t.c

1 Cor 7:1 general