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Scripture Commentary article 2017-06-07

Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free? Parts 1-2: The Designer Knows Best

[Music] oh [Music] Lord why would you give me gifts that you don't allow me to use in the church just because I'm a woman why does the bible always use the term man am I important to God [Music] too why do you love boys more than girls why am I told that I can't lead in public prayer why are there s...

1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Timothy 2:13 2 Timothy 3:16 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-28

@slc_saint That’s idolatry and pagan rituals. It’s a problem of practice. The Roman Catholic Church also has bad teachings like pergatory, praying to Mary and other deceased people, worship of a piece of wafer, and many other things. And the LDS tea...

@slc_saint That’s idolatry and pagan rituals. It’s a problem of practice. The Roman Catholic Church also has bad teachings like pergatory, praying to Mary and other deceased people, worship of a piece

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi The Council of Rome in 382 AD did not create the NT canon! It simply recognized what the Christian churches had already been using for centuries. The idea that the Catholic Church at Rome compiled the canon at that point is...

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi The Council of Rome in 382 AD did not create the NT canon! It simply recognized what the Christian churches had already been using for centuries. The idea that the Catholic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@BishopJaxi I said the canon and without error and complete before the Roman Cat

@BishopJaxi I said the canon and without error and complete before the Roman Catholic Church added their 7 books to it. You haven’t addressed anything I wrote. Why is that?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@BishopJaxi It was without error and complete before the Roman Catholic Church a

@BishopJaxi It was without error and complete before the Roman Catholic Church added 7 books to it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-22

Is this Roman Catholic teaching consistent with the Catechism of the Catholic Ch

Is this Roman Catholic teaching consistent with the Catechism of the Catholic Church? https://t.co/KRMfMBnZDw

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-16

@oliverburdick Just a tip—Catholic means universal. You mean the Roman Catholic

@oliverburdick Just a tip—Catholic means universal. You mean the Roman Catholic Church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Repent of what? I am dealing with the text in good faith attempting to explain all the details in context. Why would I ever repent of trying to deal faithfully with the text? I think I'm start...

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Repent of what? I am dealing with the text in good faith attempting to explain all the details in context. Why would I ever repent of trying to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@Balduc13679 The church in AD 200 looks very very different from the Roman Catholic Church of today. And there was none of the teachings about purgatory, the literal presence of Christ in the elements, teachings about Mary and the righteous acts of t...

@Balduc13679 The church in AD 200 looks very very different from the Roman Catholic Church of today. And there was none of the teachings about purgatory, the literal presence of Christ in the elements

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@Ruff681368 @CapturingChrist Just because people are not well trained to interpr

@Ruff681368 @CapturingChrist Just because people are not well trained to interpret scripture doesn’t mean that the Roman Catholic Church is any better. Everyone needs to test their interpretation with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-30

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix Because the Roman Catholic Church has got a

@chronos_magnus @Canad_eh @whitxsix Because the Roman Catholic Church has got a lot of things wrong and this is one of them.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@jacob_lupton @smashbaals Paul was also an overseer as well as an apostle. He also encouraged everyone that if possible they could be single like him—which would mean no one would be qualified if being married was required. The funny part is that th...

@jacob_lupton @smashbaals Paul was also an overseer as well as an apostle. He also encouraged everyone that if possible they could be single like him—which would mean no one would be qualified if bein

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-13

@HELPmissionsSA @immrbloo I’m pretty sure the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t teac

@HELPmissionsSA @immrbloo I’m pretty sure the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t teach Calvinism…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-02

@slumbles @MattChancey @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic The Roman

@slumbles @MattChancey @RamiThePaladin @MikeWingerii @TheHustleCritic The Roman Catholic Church has many things wrong. And who is Jim?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-15

@Methodios007 Any believer is my church too :-) The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches are way different than the churches of the apostles or even the first few hundred years before Constantine when buildings were not emphasized. Constantine change...

@Methodios007 Any believer is my church too :-) The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches are way different than the churches of the apostles or even the first few hundred years before Constantine when

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-07

@CylonSaysNo @Synaptic_Rabbit @masonmennenga Catholic means universal. This is n

@CylonSaysNo @Synaptic_Rabbit @masonmennenga Catholic means universal. This is not the same as the “Roman” Catholic Church. I’m not denying the doctrine of the Apostolic church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-30

@VCITW That’s almost what Luther claimed when he confronted the Roman Catholic C

@VCITW That’s almost what Luther claimed when he confronted the Roman Catholic Church. At any rate, I’m claiming to align with the church IN the New Testament. The ones after that are honestly irrele

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-12

@Torncurtainorg @NateSchlomann Would the Roman Catholic Church not have used the

@Torncurtainorg @NateSchlomann Would the Roman Catholic Church not have used the same argument against Martin Luther’s objections? My conclusions are based on scripture and plain reason.

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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 2023-09-10

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien You have to go back to scripture to test all things. If the Apostle Paul himself⎯and even angels⎯ are subject to scripture, then so is the Roman Catholic Church. “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel o...

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien You have to go back to scripture to test all things. If the Apostle Paul himself⎯and even angels⎯ are subject to scripture, then so is the Roman Catholic Church. “But even if w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-25

@ronhenzel Also by Augustine: ”I should not believe the gospel unless I were mov

@ronhenzel Also by Augustine: ”I should not believe the gospel unless I were moved to do so by the authority of the Catholic Church”.

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Definition of purgatory: a place or state after death where souls are cleansed and pay for sin before entering heaven

Basic doctrinal overview of what the Catholic Church teaches about purgatory

purgatory temporal punishment purification
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

If the Catholic Church truly has Magisterial authority, the Bible is potentially dangerous since it sometimes competes with Catholic teaching

Following the logic of Magisterial authority to its conclusion

sola scriptura Magisterium church authority
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Mike's 'Refuting Catholicism' playlist on YouTube — recommended for the central issue of Church authority

Resource recommendation and self-reference

Catholic apologetics church authority papal authority
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-24

Q&A: Advice to someone leaving the Catholic Church — seek a Bible-teaching, verse-by-verse church

Viewer named Alana asks where to go after leaving Catholicism

Calvary Chapel Catholicism Church selection
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Q&A: When did inclusivism/relativism become prevalent in the Catholic Church? Vatican II was deliberately vague

Answering viewer question from Michael Cato

Council of Trent Vatican II inclusivism
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-07

1 Corinthians 7: Singleness is better than marriage for kingdom service

Q&A on Christian celibacy and the Catholic Church sex scandal involving nuns.

1 Corinthians 7 calling 1 Corinthians 7 marriage
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-07

Catholic Church mandatory celibacy for priests and nuns is unbiblical

Mike addresses the Catholic sex abuse scandal as it relates to mandatory celibacy.

Catholic Church mandatory celibacy priestly celibacy
Mike Winger idea 2020-08-28

Catholic claim that marriage outside the Church is invalid is wrong — it is not sacramental but is still a real marriage; the Catholic doctrine of 7 sacraments is historically late

Question from Lindsey whose husband's Catholic family claims they are not really married because they were not married by the Catholic Church.

Roman Catholicism church history marriage
Mike Winger idea 2018-09-26

Catholic Church has the right Jesus but a distorted gospel — Mike recommends his Catholicism series

A viewer asks for discernment on the Catholic Church and how to know Jesus through it.

salvation gospel Catholicism
Mike Winger idea 2020-11-20

Early church creeds: authoritative insofar as they reflect Scripture, not equal to Scripture; beware anachronism

Question about the Athanasian Creed and whether it is biblical, specifically the implication that one must believe in the Trinity to be saved.

anachronism church history sola scriptura
Mike Winger idea 2021-01-29

Evangelism strategy for someone hurt by Christian abuse: separate Jesus from his misrepresenters

Question from Kenneth Kelly about reaching a Native American friend whose aunt was beaten to death by a Catholic nun.

Revelation 2-3 evangelism Revelation 2-3 Crusades
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-31

Mike shares a trivia fact about Reformation Day (October 31), explaining that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door as a culturally normal form of public announcement, not as an act of defacement.

Unprompted trivia shared by Mike about the Reformation anniversary

Martin Luther Catholic Church Reformation
Mike Winger idea 2021-02-19

Warning against making theological decisions based on aesthetics — beauty of Catholic churches and liturgy is irrelevant to truth

People in doctrinal confusion sometimes drift toward Catholic practice for aesthetic or experiential reasons rather than theological ones.

Matthew 23 apologetics Catholicism Pharisees
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-26

Jerome's Latin Vulgate mistranslated "mystery" (mysterion) as "sacrament" in Ephesians 5:32, contributing to the Roman Catholic doctrine of marriage as a sacrament.

Mark H asks about doctrinal changes Jerome introduced in the Vulgate around 400 AD.

Ephesians 5:32 Reformation Jerome Latin Vulgate
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-19

John 21:24-25 does not support Orthodox/Catholic oral tradition

Listener Adam Duarte's Orthodox friends cite John 21:24-25 as the Bible creating authoritative oral tradition.

John 21:24-25 Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Sola Scriptura
Mike Winger idea 2023-05-26

The Origin of Sunday Worship: When is the earliest, in church history, that we see Christians worshiping on Sunday instead of the Sabbath? Did it begin with the Catholic Church, or was it before?

Q&A question: The Origin of Sunday Worship

Roman Catholicism worship
Mike Winger idea 2025-07-04

Historical Data: Biblical Christianity: Is there any historical data on biblical Christianity outside the Catholic Church before the Reformation?

Q&A question: Historical Data: Biblical Christianity

Roman Catholicism