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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@RoninOfChrist @RevKimWChafee Well, if we are going to talk about Roman Catholic practices, we will have a lot more to disagree with. Much of the things the RC church teaches today developed over a long period of time which makes sense because the RC...

@RoninOfChrist @RevKimWChafee Well, if we are going to talk about Roman Catholic practices, we will have a lot more to disagree with. Much of the things the RC church teaches today developed over a lo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ LOL! So if we have male only leadership, look and how protective it was: “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2Co...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ LOL! So if we have male only leadership, look and how protective it was: “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astr

2Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine The requirements for elder are character qualifications and ability to teach, not whether you are male, female, Jewish, Gentile, married, single, short, tall, young or old, single, widowed, rich or poor. Paul's purpose was to stop the ...

@LovesSardine The requirements for elder are character qualifications and ability to teach, not whether you are male, female, Jewish, Gentile, married, single, short, tall, young or old, single, widow

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Many Christians agree with my conclusions...just not always with the same reasons I use. I don't bring in Artemis as I don't see Paul referring to this cult but to Jewish myths. It matters not...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Many Christians agree with my conclusions...just not always with the same reasons I use. I don't bring in Artemis as I don't see Paul referring

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@marcminter On the one hand, I can understand your perspective because people fr

@marcminter On the one hand, I can understand your perspective because people frequently mishandle and misinterpret scripture. So you are right to be suspicious. Also, anyone who believes the Bible te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@fishercatMaine Absolutely. Such a distraction to focus on a title or position a

@fishercatMaine Absolutely. Such a distraction to focus on a title or position as being a sin rather than what such a person is teaching or doing.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii God's choice was clearly the apostle

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii God's choice was clearly the apostle Paul. And all 12 apostles were also Jewish (not a single one was a Gentile). We don't say "explain why no Gentile was co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

Authentein (the verb form) is extremely rare. Winger cites one example (BGU 1208) as neutral or positive. But one document—especially a private business contract—does not establish how Paul uses the term in a pastoral, theological warning about decep...

Authentein (the verb form) is extremely rare. Winger cites one example (BGU 1208) as neutral or positive. But one document—especially a private business contract—does not establish how Paul uses the t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And we only have Peter and John who self identify as ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon I’m citing my Bible software which shows me the source of the English translation. There is clearly and obviously no explicit pronoun here though it is inferred because of the male form of the words. But that doesn’t me...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon I’m citing my Bible software which shows me the source of the English translation. There is clearly and obviously no explicit pronoun here though it is inferred because

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-26

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem The fact that Jesus chose 12 male apostles has n

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem The fact that Jesus chose 12 male apostles has no bearing on whether women can be apostles or leaders in the same way that His choosing only Jewish men doesn’t require

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-26

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If the English translation inserts ideas not in the original words then “following the plain English” is not being faithful to God’s intent. The world God created had no hierarchy until Adam decided to rule his wife. ...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If the English translation inserts ideas not in the original words then “following the plain English” is not being faithful to God’s intent. The world God created had

Ge 1:28 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-05

@BigDfromWV9 @smashbaals Are you aware that the Septuagint is the Greek translat

@BigDfromWV9 @smashbaals Are you aware that the Septuagint is the Greek translation from the Hebrew Scriptures done mid 2nd century BC by ~70 Jewish translators/scholars? Long before the Vatican exis

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-27

@BronWen727104 @RenewedReformed @sola_chad It is nowhere in scripture. But we do

@BronWen727104 @RenewedReformed @sola_chad It is nowhere in scripture. But we do find laws in the Jewish oral traditions in the Talmud. https://t.co/CBNFSu2B8z

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir I have no problem listening but understand that context is key. Scripture is not understandable only to experts! And those who know Greek and English syntax can be wrong if they don’t pay attention to context. It happens f...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir I have no problem listening but understand that context is key. Scripture is not understandable only to experts! And those who know Greek and English syntax can be wrong if

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Now that we are confirming we are back on earth where people study Greek and English syntax and can read in context as authors use syntax to communicate what they want, I believe that the interpretation that...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Now that we are confirming we are back on earth where people study Greek and English syntax and can read in context as authors use syntax to communicate what

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You are completely free to do whatever you wish, Ron.

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You are completely free to do whatever you wish, Ron.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-18

@KebRayGonzalez Yet Paul seems to desire singleness to be the norm and marriage

@KebRayGonzalez Yet Paul seems to desire singleness to be the norm and marriage the exception. “Yet I wish that *all men* were even as I myself am. However, each has his own gift from God, one in thi

1Co 7:7 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist “God’s people” is not a reference to an authorita

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist “God’s people” is not a reference to an authoritative hierarchy or something a pope or bishop could claim without evidence backing it up.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@ChappyMacc @rightresponsem Or…you could be reading into Jesus’ choice of 12 Jewish male apostles something that was never intended. For instance, who were the disciples that went out 2x2 when He sent out the 70 (or 72 according to Luke)? Nothing exp...

@ChappyMacc @rightresponsem Or…you could be reading into Jesus’ choice of 12 Jewish male apostles something that was never intended. For instance, who were the disciples that went out 2x2 when He sent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Jesus appointed

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Jesus appointed 12 Jewish men as his first apostles but then He appointed 70 to go preach the gospel and do miracles. Those surely incl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@JacksonTarwater @EstablishingMan @Eric_Conn How are you a husband but not marri

@JacksonTarwater @EstablishingMan @Eric_Conn How are you a husband but not married? And in v4, how can you have 2 or more believing children without being married?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Huh? Is that th

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Huh? Is that the best you’ve got? 12 Jewish male apostles yet you don’t believe all pastors have to be Jewish, right?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning What are you ta

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning What are you talking about? That Jesus chose 12 Jewish male apostles? How is it then that we have any Gentile leaders since Jesus only

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@theOutlawJW1 @Eric_Conn Qualifications are related to godliness and character,

@theOutlawJW1 @Eric_Conn Qualifications are related to godliness and character, not things that you cannot change like whether you are male or female, Jewish or Gentile, slave or free, etc. Further,

1Ti 3:2 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@EstablishingMan @Eric_Conn The first qualification is being a man? 1Ti 3:1 uses τὶς (anyone, someone) which is not clearly male only. 1Ti 3:2 does say “one wife husband” but seems to be clearly used as an idiom as even Paul himself wasn’t married. N...

@EstablishingMan @Eric_Conn The first qualification is being a man? 1Ti 3:1 uses τὶς (anyone, someone) which is not clearly male only. 1Ti 3:2 does say “one wife husband” but seems to be clearly used

1Ti 3:1 1Ti 3:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-06

@scottspeig @MikeWingerii No. He made the spreading of the teaching a primary matter. To him it is the teaching itself that leads to harm against his view of church leadership and gender hierarchy in marriage. I’m not calling Mike to repent of sprea...

@scottspeig @MikeWingerii No. He made the spreading of the teaching a primary matter. To him it is the teaching itself that leads to harm against his view of church leadership and gender hierarchy in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Keith83361 I’m not diminishing scripture. I’m saying it has to be rightly divid

@Keith83361 I’m not diminishing scripture. I’m saying it has to be rightly divided. If you misinterpret it then you get things wrong and you say God says something that He didn’t mean.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-02

@smashbaals Smash reminds me of how the early Jewish leaders persecuted true bel

@smashbaals Smash reminds me of how the early Jewish leaders persecuted true believers. Good grief! This is not something that should divide people. And Smash, do a better job of reading your Bible!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-30

@Jskellinton78 Hebrew. But there’s a variant in the Hebrew showing it can be tak

@Jskellinton78 Hebrew. But there’s a variant in the Hebrew showing it can be taken either as women or oppressors/extortioners and the Jewish translators who created the Greek translation called the LX

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-30

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 They are also Jewish. Just because God has a task for

@StothersRyan @M_Jensen23 They are also Jewish. Just because God has a task for these Jewish virgin male, and similarly the 12 Jewish male apostles, doesn’t mean that leadership roles are limited to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-30

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix These popes and bishops have erred in so man

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix These popes and bishops have erred in so many ways. The only plumb line that is stable is the Bible itself. We have to look at the text and question the teachings o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-29

@Moppybottoms @KaeleyT The short answer is any role where a woman is in a position of authority over a man. Many believe Gen 2-3 establishes male authority and female submission, 1Co 14:34-35 commands women to respect that authority by remaining sil...

@Moppybottoms @KaeleyT The short answer is any role where a woman is in a position of authority over a man. Many believe Gen 2-3 establishes male authority and female submission, 1Co 14:34-35 command

1Co 14:34-35 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-26

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Hang on, how are you explaining anything spiritual fro

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Hang on, how are you explaining anything spiritual from scripture to me in English? Why are you not using Hebrew? 🤔

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Finally, the NT’s use of Greek wasn’t a deviation from

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Finally, the NT’s use of Greek wasn’t a deviation from Jewish tradition but an extension of it. Like the LXX, it ensured that God’s message could reach the world, a key goal

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Jesus likely spoke Aramaic, but He lived in a multilin

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody Jesus likely spoke Aramaic, but He lived in a multilingual world where Greek was common, especially for interactions beyond Jewish audiences. His message being preserved in G

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody The Hebrew Bible itself was translated into Greek (the

@elemayohoh @HolyHomebody The Hebrew Bible itself was translated into Greek (the LXX) centuries before Christ, because many Jews no longer spoke Hebrew. NT writers often quoted the LXX, showing Greek

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were not speaking in foreign tongues without interpretati...

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@prejoal @smashbaals In 1Co 14, Paul is admonishing everyone to seek the gifts and use them in a way that all in the church are edified. You seem to miss that Paul was quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote and responding to or refuting things...

@prejoal @smashbaals In 1Co 14, Paul is admonishing everyone to seek the gifts and use them in a way that all in the church are edified. You seem to miss that Paul was quoting from the letter the Cori

1Co 7:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers That is correct. Would a believing husband who under

@Heiserite @lutherananswers That is correct. Would a believing husband who understands that covering for shame for sin is not something we should do in God’s presence? Who then is left? Probably more

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, in 11:5, Paul explains the cultural implic

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, in 11:5, Paul explains the cultural implications for women, especially those who are married to unbelieving Jewish husbands. In 11:6, we have the permissive imper

In 11:6 in 11:5 general
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.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers I've read ideas about how hair was sexualized in the

@Heiserite @lutherananswers I've read ideas about how hair was sexualized in the Talmud, but what does this have to do with angels? Is Paul making an argument from the Jewish oral law? But why go the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@John42991250 @smashbaals All of the prophets, apostles and Jesus Himself are Jewish. How do I not stick to what scripture teaches? Actually, I explicitly and fervently only want to stick to what the scripture teaches as it alone is the sole authori...

@John42991250 @smashbaals All of the prophets, apostles and Jesus Himself are Jewish. How do I not stick to what scripture teaches? Actually, I explicitly and fervently only want to stick to what the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-18

@smashbaals Because it’s the God of the Jews that you worship, right? You just

@smashbaals Because it’s the God of the Jews that you worship, right? You just believe that Jesus is the one who fulfilled the Jewish scriptures and many of them refuse to so their worship is in vain

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wow. I have to ask one more time then—if the command is to be fruitful (physically) and have children, then in your view, the apostle Paul’s encouragement that they all remain as he was—single—is a wish to violate a commandment of...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wow. I have to ask one more time then—if the command is to be fruitful (physically) and have children, then in your view, the apostle Paul’s encouragement that they all remain as h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul actually says that he wished they were all as he was which would mean—if true—that no one in the church would be having children. He’s not overturning being fruitful and multiplying, but transforming it to building the church...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul actually says that he wished they were all as he was which would mean—if true—that no one in the church would be having children. He’s not overturning being fruitful and multi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-13

@smashbaals Jesus nor the apostles taught 2 or 3 and 1 and 4 applies to everyone. In fact Jesus said, “All those who take up the sword [or firearms] will perish by them” and “not by might nor by power but by My Spirit” (Zc 4:6) Paul writes that god...

@smashbaals Jesus nor the apostles taught 2 or 3 and 1 and 4 applies to everyone. In fact Jesus said, “All those who take up the sword [or firearms] will perish by them” and “not by might nor by powe

Zc 4:6 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-11

@AletheiaHS @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Why are you speaking for me? What is it that I don’t know? Paul doesn’t claim to be a God hater but someone who was zealous as he thought this was a heretical sect growing in the Jewish faith. https://t.co/...

@AletheiaHS @ManassehRJones @subq @immrbloo Why are you speaking for me? What is it that I don’t know? Paul doesn’t claim to be a God hater but someone who was zealous as he thought this was a heretic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-11

@ManassehRJones @AletheiaHS @subq @immrbloo Thanks for responding Manny. Paul w

@ManassehRJones @AletheiaHS @subq @immrbloo Thanks for responding Manny. Paul was deceived thinking that he was serving God by ridding the Jewish faith of a heretical sect growing within it. https://

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