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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann I am not arguing for women to replace men as the boss over their husbands but as equal co-partners who serve one another and serve others together without hierarchy. Whether the woman works at home, both, the man does o...

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann I am not arguing for women to replace men as the boss over their husbands but as equal co-partners who serve one another and serve others together without hierarchy. Whe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@TonyMacaroni22 @RickyDoggin Why do you quote this passage out of context? What

@TonyMacaroni22 @RickyDoggin Why do you quote this passage out of context? What relevance does this have to a woman who is in a debate? Is she teaching?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@that_foot_is_me And yet people like Mike Winger, while using this lingo, choose to not make decisions unless they are both in agreement. So he is functionally egalitarian. Why do they get so worked up about the woman being the only one who submits i...

@that_foot_is_me And yet people like Mike Winger, while using this lingo, choose to not make decisions unless they are both in agreement. So he is functionally egalitarian. Why do they get so worked u

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@StevenG57428175 “All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching,

@StevenG57428175 “All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equippe

2Ti 3:16 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Except Paul's inspired grammar says "a woman" not 'women' and 'a man' not 'men.' Then in verse 14 he says 'the woman' which either refers to Eve or 'a woman' from vs 11-12. It cannot refer to E...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Except Paul's inspired grammar says "a woman" not 'women' and 'a man' not 'men.' Then in verse 14 he says 'the woman' which either refers to Ev

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant its only men and then ignores it is in dangerous sit...

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Yes because it’s about a woman that Timothy was left to deal with who was teaching heresy. A woman whose husband who wasn’t deceived was silent. A sticky situation for the young single Timothy,...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Yes because it’s about a woman that Timothy was left to deal with who was teaching heresy. A woman whose husband who wasn’t deceived was silent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine The Greek is "one woman man" or "one wife husband" but being married cannot be a requirement or Paul himself would be disqualified and his encouraging everyone to be single like him (1Cor 7) would mean there would be no leaders if every...

@LovesSardine The Greek is "one woman man" or "one wife husband" but being married cannot be a requirement or Paul himself would be disqualified and his encouraging everyone to be single like him (1Co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 Paul uses the male form of nouns and of the idiom "one woman man"

@JoeAdrian256 Paul uses the male form of nouns and of the idiom "one woman man" but that does not require that he means male only. There are a number of verses that use aner and clearly mean any perso

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching the truth doesn't lead to the occult. How is th

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching the truth doesn't lead to the occult. How is that a reasonable conclusion? Let me say it again. A woman teaching *THE TRUTH* does not lead to the occult.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 1Ti 3:2 says "one woman man" or "one wife husband"⎯the male form is clear. I never said Paul wasn't using the male form of this idiom. But it doesn't mean male only is what I'm saying. Just like it doesn't mean married. Unless Paul is...

@JonByers186054 1Ti 3:2 says "one woman man" or "one wife husband"⎯the male form is clear. I never said Paul wasn't using the male form of this idiom. But it doesn't mean male only is what I'm saying.

1Ti 3:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching "strange doctrines" (1Ti 1:3) needs to be silen

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching "strange doctrines" (1Ti 1:3) needs to be silent *and learn*. With full submission because she was teaching heresy! That's why Paul says "She will be saved..." because

1Ti 1:3 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JackmanRobert That said, no where in scripture is a woman "forbidden" to be a pastor/elder/overseer. You are obviously reading this into the text. We don't have anything like that "an elder must not be a woman" for example. 1Ti 3:2 is using the male...

@JackmanRobert That said, no where in scripture is a woman "forbidden" to be a pastor/elder/overseer. You are obviously reading this into the text. We don't have anything like that "an elder must not

1Ti 3:2 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@NateSchlomann 1) I think I can agree with you. So I'd like you to show me where God clearly "commands" that an elder must not be a woman. 2) Nature (ie. animals) teaches that some animals dominate others. So we are to follow what the animals do? Ho...

@NateSchlomann 1) I think I can agree with you. So I'd like you to show me where God clearly "commands" that an elder must not be a woman. 2) Nature (ie. animals) teaches that some animals dominate o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Eisegesis is inserting ideas foreign to the context into a text. How am I doing this? Which foreign ideas or concepts am I inserting? What narratives are made up? Paul connects a woman and a man with Adam and Eve, the time order of cr...

@JonByers186054 Eisegesis is inserting ideas foreign to the context into a text. How am I doing this? Which foreign ideas or concepts am I inserting? What narratives are made up? Paul connects a woman

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Deborah is extra-biblical? 🤔 I don't read your "God-hating femi

@JonByers186054 Deborah is extra-biblical? 🤔 I don't read your "God-hating feminists." No woman was a priest. Nor was any male from 11/12 of the tribes of Israel. Deborah never taught scripture? Rea

Matt 28:18-20 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Wait, hang on, where is it in God's law that a woman cannot be an elder or leader? How is it that God chose Deborah to be the judge of all Israel and its prophet? Leading others to teach truth and lead others into the truth⎯regardles...

@JonByers186054 Wait, hang on, where is it in God's law that a woman cannot be an elder or leader? How is it that God chose Deborah to be the judge of all Israel and its prophet? Leading others to te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 The interesting thing is that many feel that a married man being a

@JoeAdrian256 The interesting thing is that many feel that a married man being a pastor to a single woman which is frequently problematic isn't a problem also. The way to resolve this of course is to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 Thanks for continuing to discuss. I appreciate you pushing back and clarifying your position again. "...a married woman to be a pastor to one man..."⎯this is a curious framing of what I'm saying. I'm actually saying the person doesn't ...

@JoeAdrian256 Thanks for continuing to discuss. I appreciate you pushing back and clarifying your position again. "...a married woman to be a pastor to one man..."⎯this is a curious framing of what I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@StandAndKnox Paul was really telling this woman to stop teaching as she was tea

@StandAndKnox Paul was really telling this woman to stop teaching as she was teaching heresy. That's why she must learn quietly⎯so that she can teach the truth! Paul was not saying that she couldn't t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching truth and shepherding is not in the same catego

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching truth and shepherding is not in the same category as someone who is marries someone of the same s*x.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@StandAndKnox Hang on, I was making brunch. So what you seem to be suggesting is that saying that women are not forbidden from serving as elders means that they are elevating themselves to be first? So any woman who ends up serving as an elder⎯say in...

@StandAndKnox Hang on, I was making brunch. So what you seem to be suggesting is that saying that women are not forbidden from serving as elders means that they are elevating themselves to be first? S

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@Tako1Fall A woman of godly character who is able to teach and teaches the truth

@Tako1Fall A woman of godly character who is able to teach and teaches the truth with patient instruction and desires to serve as an elder should not be forbidden from doing so. God doesn’t forbid thi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 If a woman in Iran is serving as a pastor and leading many to Chri

@JoeAdrian256 If a woman in Iran is serving as a pastor and leading many to Christ and discipling them, will God send her to Hell because she is teaching the truth merely because she is serving as a p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-18

@HollandGreig 'A symbol of' is not in the Greek text. This is inserted to make i

@HollandGreig 'A symbol of' is not in the Greek text. This is inserted to make it seem like the woman has authority over her. But the text reads simply that She has authority over her own head (to dec

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-11

There’s nothing in Scripture suggesting “preaching” as we know it was the main a

There’s nothing in Scripture suggesting “preaching” as we know it was the main activity when churches gathered. It looked more like 1Co 14:26—multiple contributions. A woman sharing God’s word doesn’t

1Co 14:26 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii 'a woman' and 'a man' can also be 'a wife' and 'a husband'⎯and because of 'the woman' in 1Ti 2:14 which cannot refer to Eve because of 'she will be saved' in v15 which cannot apply to Eve who is dead⎯this is...

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii 'a woman' and 'a man' can also be 'a wife' and 'a husband'⎯and because of 'the woman' in 1Ti 2:14 which cannot refer to Eve because of 'she will be saved' in

1Ti 2:14 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

Paul isn’t abstracting gender roles—he’s connecting Eve’s deception to her lack

Paul isn’t abstracting gender roles—he’s connecting Eve’s deception to her lack of experience and mapping that to a specific deceived woman in Ephesus. He doesn’t name her, but uses Eden as a parallel

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

The fact is that gyne means either woman or wife and we have to determine which

The fact is that gyne means either woman or wife and we have to determine which from the context. The same applies for aner and man or husband. Given the context and connection to Adam and Eve, I beli

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

My view differs from claim 4—I believe Paul wants this woman to stop teaching until she learns the truth. Her being silent is about her not teaching, which Winger would agree with. The difference is Winger sees it as a general rule, not a situation-s...

My view differs from claim 4—I believe Paul wants this woman to stop teaching until she learns the truth. Her being silent is about her not teaching, which Winger would agree with. The difference is W

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching or leading men in every context, but is instead dealing with a specific woman teaching heresy, a situation reminiscent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There’s a difference between using generic pronouns like ‘tis’ in 1Ti 3:1 and male forms of words and explicitly calling out “must be a man” or “must not be a woman.” Paul clearly isn’t intending to restrict based on wh...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There’s a difference between using generic pronouns like ‘tis’ in 1Ti 3:1 and male forms of words and explicitly calling out “must be a man” or “must not be a woman.” Pa

1Ti 3:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be married and have 2 or more children and Paul was neith...

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be marr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer to either a man or a woman. Just as I can show tha...

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek No, I’m not changing the words of scripture. If it’s an idiom for monogamous and marital faithfulness as a characteristic, the male form can be used to refer

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't disqualified). Implied pronouns are male but this is...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't di

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to re

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to refer to marital faithfulness (character) and not being married or one’s gender. See below for some scholars who support a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-29

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does n

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does not allow that woman in Ephesus to teach heresy? Her husband, likely an elder, was doing and saying nothing—remarkably ju

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-27

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historical creed or confession unifying the church says th...

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historic

Gen 1:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-27

@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems to be noting something that a wife uniquely has as ...

@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-27

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok A woman who teaches the truth is to be listened to simply because of the truth she speaks. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether a male or female. A book is neither male nor female—yet di you only read b...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok A woman who teaches the truth is to be listened to simply because of the truth she speaks. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether a male or female. A book

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-23

Paul echoes this in his warning about false peace: “While they are saying, ‘Pea

Paul echoes this in his warning about false peace: “While they are saying, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not es

1Th 5:3 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-27

@RenewedReformed @BronWen727104 @sola_chad Paul wrote Timothy to deal with specific people teaching strange doctrines. Paul’s instruction was never to stop someone from teaching truth to anyone. And certainly he isn’t making up a new sin of a woman t...

@RenewedReformed @BronWen727104 @sola_chad Paul wrote Timothy to deal with specific people teaching strange doctrines. Paul’s instruction was never to stop someone from teaching truth to anyone. And c

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi No, it’s not a pernicious fallacy. You said “there’s absolutely no remotely legitimate way” when there *is* a legitimate way since you have “she will be saved” all the way back to “a woman” in 2:12⎯ it seems...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi No, it’s not a pernicious fallacy. You said “there’s absolutely no remotely legitimate way” when there *is* a legitimate way since you have “she will be save

in 2:12 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi It's not the only straightforward way to read the text because your interpretation doesn't make sense of all the details⎯both semantically and contextually. Yes, and thanks for admitting that you are not aw...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi It's not the only straightforward way to read the text because your interpretation doesn't make sense of all the details⎯both semantically and contextually.

in 2:14 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi 1. Your statement doesn't even make sense unless you are saying that you are ignorant of my grammar and semantics. Who cares⎯it's Paul's grammar and semantics anyways. 2. Yes, the nearest anarthrous noun fo...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi 1. Your statement doesn't even make sense unless you are saying that you are ignorant of my grammar and semantics. Who cares⎯it's Paul's grammar and semantic

in 2:13 of 2:14 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi This is not a popularity contest. If none of the commentaries identify the option that Eve is symbolic of a specific woman teaching false doctrine and "the woman" of v14, the subject of "but she will be save...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi This is not a popularity contest. If none of the commentaries identify the option that Eve is symbolic of a specific woman teaching false doctrine and "the w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Men does not equal man, but if it did, my point would stand from another angle. Because then the definite man would necessitate the definite woman (in v11-12). Paul wants strange doctrines to not be taught ...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Men does not equal man, but if it did, my point would stand from another angle. Because then the definite man would necessitate the definite woman (in v11-12

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You have the anaphoric use of “the woman” and the anaphoric use of “she”. So you have no problem with the anaphoric showing up here. But you refuse to acknowledge one specific anaphoric use as it means Pau...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You have the anaphoric use of “the woman” and the anaphoric use of “she”. So you have no problem with the anaphoric showing up here. But you refuse to ackn

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are just assuming your point. But the grammar doesn’t match. In v8, it is “the” men (definite). The article comes first which means it is not anaphoric. Then in v12 it is “man” singular. We could assum...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are just assuming your point. But the grammar doesn’t match. In v8, it is “the” men (definite). The article comes first which means it is not anaphoric.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi A ludicrous ignorance of grammar and semantics? Seriously? Both options are possible but then you have she as anaphoric pointing back to v11-12 and not the nearest which is the woman. You are trying so hard...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi A ludicrous ignorance of grammar and semantics? Seriously? Both options are possible but then you have she as anaphoric pointing back to v11-12 and not the n

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