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Scripture Commentary article 2025-02-02

1 Timothy 1:3 — The Urgent Need for Timothy in Ephesus: False Teachers

Commentary clippings and research notes on 1 Timothy 1:3, establishing that Paul's primary concern in writing to Timothy was to combat false teaching in Ephesus. Multiple commentaries confirm the false teachers likely held leadership positions, and that Timothy was given Paul's own authority to command them to stop. This false-teaching context is foundational for understanding Paul's instructions in 1 Timothy 2:12.

1 Cor. 4:18 1 Tim 1:2 1 Tim 4:11 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Egalitarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2024-06-19

The Debates Over 1 Timothy 2

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 12 on the debates over 1 Timothy 2:11-15

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Corinthians 10:11 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 1 Timothy 2 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2023-01-19

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: The Head Covering Debates (1 Cor 11)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 10 on the head covering debates in 1 Corinthians 11

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2023-01-17

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Male Headship: Is It Really Biblical?

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 8 on male headship and whether it is really biblical

1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2022-11-25

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Leaders in the New Testament (PART B)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 4 on women leaders in the New Testament (Part B)

1 Chronicles 29:6 1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Corinthians 15:32 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2019-09-19

Is Free Will “Another” Gospel?

What is the problem? It is common for Calvinists to argue that humanity can’t have free will because free will would necessitate a salvation based on works. Although the Bible does not make this claim, people have been subject to unfair accusations of heresy by overly zealous Calvinists.

2 Corinthians 3:7–9 2 Timothy 2:13 Galatians 1:8–9 Soteriology Calvinism Predestination & Election
Scripture Commentary article 2014-07-22

No one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him John 6:43-45

Jesus spoke incredibly powerful words in John chapter 6 that many people are afraid to dig into because of their concern that John 6 might contradict their theology. In fact, Calvinists are quick to challenge non-Calvinists to explain what these verses mean outside of the Calvinist interpretation.

Acts 16:14 Hosea 11:4 Isaiah 19:21 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2013-10-17

Unbelieving grumblers John 6:41-42

John 6:41-42 (NASB)  41 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

John 6:41-42 John 6:42 John 6:43 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2013-10-16

The Will of the Father John 6:38-40

In our verse by verse discussion of John 6, we come to verse 38, a verse that highlights the will of the Father.

John 12:6 John 13:16-21 John 17:12 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2013-03-05

John 6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me

John 6:37 (NASB) “ All that the Father gives Me will come to Me…

Acts 10:1–2 Acts 13:26 Acts 13:42–43 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2012-12-03

Does God’s drawing mean that He drags people to Himself?

If we are to believe Calvinism, we would have to conclude that God is a “dragger.” Calvinists are quick to point out that in John 6:44 the term “draw” actually means “drag” and this is what God does to His elect who, in their unregenerate state, are both unwilling and unable to respond to Him in fai...

John 6:44 John 6:45 Soteriology Calvinism God's Sovereignty
Scripture Commentary article 2012-11-30

Did God hang babies out to dry with the rest of sinning humanity?

My last post on Judas brought up a discussion of Jesus’ words about Judas and what it would have been like for him had he not been born.

James 1:15 Jeremiah 19:4–5 Jeremiah 7:31 Soteriology Calvinism
Scripture Commentary article 2012-11-16

Was John the Baptist predestined to be saved?

In the teaching of Calvinism, there is an election to salvation for some men while the rest of mankind are created without a hope of eternal life. In this understanding God has pre-determined from eternity past that all but the elect would remain in their sin and be lost forever.

Isaiah 40:3 John 1:15 John 1:29 Soteriology Calvinism Predestination & Election
Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-29

Mike Seaver And Cheryl Schatz 2

## Facing the spiritual “law” head-on from 1 Corinthians 14

1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 1 Timothy 2:11 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Corinthians 14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-18

Wayne Grudem 5

This is the part 5 of answering Wayne Grudem’s “ Open letter to Egalitarians ” and his “Six Questions That Have Never Been Satisfactorily Answered”. Today I am posting his fifth question, Suzanne McCarthy’s answer from the Greek and my own questions below that

1 Timothy 2:12 Amos 100 Exodus 1 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-12

Wayne Grudem 3

This is the part 3 of answering Wayne Grudem’s “ Open letter to Egalitarians ” and his “Six Questions That Have Never Been Satisfactorily Answered”. Today I am posting his third question and my own answer

1 Corinthians 14:1 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 1 Corinthians 14:36 1 Corinthians 14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-05

Wayne Grudem Part 2

In my last post I copied Wayne Grudem’s “Open letter to Egalitarians”, and I listed the first question of his “Six Questions That Have Never Been Satisfactorily Answered”. Today I am posting his second question, Suzanne McCarthy’s expert Greek answer, and my own challenge after that

1 Peter 3:1 Acts 5:21 Proverbs 5:21 Ephesians 5 Authority & Submission Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA “On the basis of the studies of George Knight (1984) and Leland Wilshire (1988) in NTS, the 2000 edition of BDAG eliminated ‘domineer over’ as a meaning of the Greek word αὐθεντέω and substituted...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA “On the basis of the studies of George Knight (1984) and Leland Wilshire (1988) in NTS, the 2000 edition of BDAG eliminated ‘domineer over’ as a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewhere in scripture positively. And Jesus explicitly te...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewher

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-02

@ronhenzel @CovenantReform2 The word is literally "head" full stop. The BDAG is

@ronhenzel @CovenantReform2 The word is literally "head" full stop. The BDAG is making interpretive decisions and you have to test those against the scripture taken in context. 1Co 11:3b and Eph 5:2

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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 2023-12-11

@BibleBashed @sympatheticNPC BDAG interprets this to mean to behave in a courageous way. This doesn’t mean a woman can physically overpower a man just like David couldn’t physically overpower Goliath. But the more the power differential, the more c...

@BibleBashed @sympatheticNPC BDAG interprets this to mean to behave in a courageous way. This doesn’t mean a woman can physically overpower a man just like David couldn’t physically overpower Goliath

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-11

@BibleBashed You need someone to help you with this one? 😂 This was also in BDA

@BibleBashed You need someone to help you with this one? 😂 This was also in BDAG... https://t.co/oyjl8gqGEo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-30

@Buzzsaws1990 @Rach4Patriarchy That point in BDAG is refuting that the Hebrew passages listed do NOT establish the meaning cousin. The Hebrew is used loosely in isolated cases, but this is the Greek and the context doesn't make sense of cousin. The...

@Buzzsaws1990 @Rach4Patriarchy That point in BDAG is refuting that the Hebrew passages listed do NOT establish the meaning cousin. The Hebrew is used loosely in isolated cases, but this is the Greek

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-30

@Buzzsaws1990 @Rach4Patriarchy I should have looked adelphos up first before I a

@Buzzsaws1990 @Rach4Patriarchy I should have looked adelphos up first before I agreed it can mean cousins... This is from the BDAG Greek Lexicon: https://t.co/ds9KThBeIe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@MikeWingerii Although Belleville’s analysis of authentein and the lexical probl

@MikeWingerii Although Belleville’s analysis of authentein and the lexical problems with BDAG is sound, her interpretation of verse 12 still doesn’t make sense. For another view that I think works se

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-12

@Nkajunwa @HwsEleutheroi Also, why do you think the Holy Spirit inspired the following details: 1Tim3:8 - deacons likewise… 1Tim3:11 - women likewise… 1Tim3:12 - deacons must be… ὡσαύτως: “a marker of similarity that approximates identity, (in) the ...

@Nkajunwa @HwsEleutheroi Also, why do you think the Holy Spirit inspired the following details: 1Tim3:8 - deacons likewise… 1Tim3:11 - women likewise… 1Tim3:12 - deacons must be… ὡσαύτως: “a marker o

1Tim3:11 1Tim3:12 1Tim3:8 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-10

@MikeWingerii I don’t think Rick is big on exegesis. However, Belleville has done an excellent job in “Lexical Fallacies in Rendering authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12: BDAG in Light of Greek Literary and Nonliterary Usage.” Also, Paul has other words h...

@MikeWingerii I don’t think Rick is big on exegesis. However, Belleville has done an excellent job in “Lexical Fallacies in Rendering authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12: BDAG in Light of Greek Literary and

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