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Scripture Commentary article 2024-09-03

Where Mike Winger Went Wrong on Women

Comprehensive response to the entire Mike Winger Women in Ministry video series (Parts 1-13)

1 Cor 14:35-36 1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Debates

Scripture Commentary article 2024-08-08

What Mike Winger Gets Wrong on What Women Can’t Do

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 13 on what women can and can't do according to the Bible

1 Corinthians 7:5 1 Timothy 2:12 Ephesians 5:21-22 Headship & Kephale Women in Leadership Complementarianism

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 2024-06-11

Obedience is not a secondary issue

The article argues that the restriction on women serving as pastors, grounded in 1 Timothy 2:12, is not a secondary or debatable theological issue but a plain obedience issue. The author contends Paul's prohibition is rooted in creation order (not culture), making it transcultural and non-negotiable, and that egalitarian interpretations require "obliterating" what Paul plainly says. The piece ends with a challenge to egalitarians: what does obedience or disobedience to this passage actually look like?

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:13 1 Timothy 3 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2023-03-14

A 14-Point Biblical Case for Women Leaders and Teachers And Why Mike Winger, The Gospel Coalition, and the Southern Baptists Are Wrong About This

A 14-point biblical case for women leaders and teachers, responding to Mike Winger, The Gospel Coalition, and the Southern Baptists

1 Cor 12:21-24 1 Cor 14:26 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates

Scripture Commentary article 2023-03-09

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Apostles

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 5 on whether women were apostles in the New Testament

1 Corinthians 12:28 1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 15:5 Women in Leadership Debates

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 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 2022-11-24

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong With Genesis 1–3: ‘Was Women’s Submission Just A Curse To Be Overturned?’

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 2 on Genesis 1-3 and whether women's submission was just a curse to be overturned

1 Corinthians 11:7-10 1 Corinthians 15:22 1 Corinthians 16:15-16 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission Women in Leadership

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 2018-04-20

Was God’s Wrath Satisfied in Christ or Paid in Hell?

Was God’s wrath satisfied in Christ? If so then how can sinners suffer God’s wrath in hell? This question is one that is often asked by Calvinists to those who do not hold to the teaching of Calvinism.

1 Corinthians 2:14 Colossians 1:21 Colossians 3:3 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement

Scripture Commentary article 2017-06-08

Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free? Parts 5-7: 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Timothy 3, Galatians 3:28

[Music] the women are to keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak but are to subject themselves just as the law also says if they desire to learn anything let them ask their own husbands at home for it is improper for a woman to speak in church 1 Corinthians 14 has been a diff...

1 Corinthians 14:12 1 Corinthians 14:13 1 Corinthians 14:26 1 Corinthians 14 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership

Scripture Commentary article 2015-03-31

For whom did Jesus die? 13 Biblical witnesses on Christ’s death

For whom did Jesus die? here are two questions of great importance for both Calvinists and non-Calvinists alike. After the two questions and answers, I would like to give a challenge to Calvinists.

1 Thessalonians 5:10 1 Timothy 1:13-16 1 Timothy 1:15 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement

Scripture Commentary article 2009-12-20

Equal In Value And Worth In Whose Eyes

One of the problems with the definitions that complementarians provide is that the definitions aren’t complete enough on the surface to reveal the underlying hierarchical nature. However, when one pushes to get the answers to some difficult questions, the picture becomes a lot clearer

Galatians 3:28 Lamentations 1 Lamentations 3:28 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2009-11-30

Does God Torment Women

## Is it a sin for a woman

1 Peter 4:10 1 Peter 4:11 Amos 1:13 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-18

Galatians 328 Is It Only About Salvation

According to complementarians, Galatians 3:28 is not about equality in Christ, but about all of us being in the same “boat” of salvation. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) has made quite an effort to try to demolish Galatians 3:28 as a basis of spiritual equality outside of salvat

1 Corinthians 14:34 Exodus 3:28 Galatians 3:11 1 Corinthians 14 Complementarianism Galatians 3:28

Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-12

Spiritually Different By Design

CBMW (Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) puts on conferences called “Different by Design” and in these conferences they teach that God created men and women different for different purposes

Exodus 3:28 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism Galatians 3:28

Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-14

Scriptural Fences

One of the helpful things in interpreting scripture is to identify what I call “scriptural fences”. These special verses force us to interpret the passage within the limits set up by the “fence” line

1 Corinthians 14:34 1 Corinthians 14:36 1 Corinthians 7:1 1 Corinthians 11 Trinity Debates

Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2007-10-13

Gift Vs Office And Women In Ministry

Continuing in our series on the gifts and their use by men and women in the body of Christ, we come to an unusual passage where the gift seems not to be a thing but a person

2 Corinthians 11:13 2 Corinthians 12:11 2 Corinthians 12:12 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership

Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-09

Are Females Saved Just Like Males

Before we continue with our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, I wanted to share a question that Jen had who watched my clip of “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free” DVD on YouTube. She said:

1 Peter 3:7 Ephesians 2:14-19 Ephesians 2:19 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Galatians 3:28

Scripture Commentary article 2007-03-31

Should A Woman Fear Using Her Spiritual Gifts

Can a woman serve God with all her heart without fearing that somehow she is violating a commandment by God. This segment is a preview of part 7 of the 4th DVD of “Women in M inistry Silenced or Set Free

Exodus 3:28 Proverbs 7 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Spiritual Abuse

Scripture Commentary article 2006-09-23

Can Complementarians Agree To Disagree

I sent a copy of our DVD “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free. ” to the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood in February of 2006 and this summer I finally received a response

John 3:4 John 3:6 Lamentations 6:1 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

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 2025-01-27

@Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz @autocorrect2_0 Also, John 15 speaks about cutting off branches that are not abiding and therefore not producing fruit. So they might have produced some fruit but then stopped abiding. Galatians talks abo...

@Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz @autocorrect2_0 Also, John 15 speaks about cutting off branches that are not abiding and therefore not producing fruit. So they might have produced some fr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-14

To the Galatians, Paul said some serious things: “If anyone is preaching to you

To the Galatians, Paul said some serious things: “If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed” (Gal 1:9). Yet, he didn’t call the faithful to leave. I

Gal 1:9 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-10

@benjamin_d_cook @riemersonck @VCITW Again, the one forbidding and prohibiting is the one acting like a Pharisee. Galatians 2:4: “Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, s...

@benjamin_d_cook @riemersonck @VCITW Again, the one forbidding and prohibiting is the one acting like a Pharisee. Galatians 2:4: “Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to s

Galatians 2:4 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-07

@GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @Idolkiller I was part of a Baptist denomination for 15 years. What makes you think I’m a Judiazer? They taught that following the Mosaic laws such as circumcision were required for believers to ...

@GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @Idolkiller I was part of a Baptist denomination for 15 years. What makes you think I’m a Judiazer? They taught that following the Mosaic laws su

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-03

@NBidnz I'm not sure I've heard angels referred to as spies before, but you are right that Judiazers especially were infiltrating the churches and trying to bring them under the law (see Galatians). The thing about angels and head coverings is that ...

@NBidnz I'm not sure I've heard angels referred to as spies before, but you are right that Judiazers especially were infiltrating the churches and trying to bring them under the law (see Galatians).

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-25

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam Ron, yes, that was my mistake as the text is clearly God speaking to the serpent. Galatians makes it clear that it is not to seeds but to a singular seed, so you are right that Rom 16:19 is only because believers are “in Christ...

@ronhenzel @ymmotrojam Ron, yes, that was my mistake as the text is clearly God speaking to the serpent. Galatians makes it clear that it is not to seeds but to a singular seed, so you are right that

Rom 16:19 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-13

@ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Paul had to deal with people like you in Galatians. It is no different to suggest godly female pastors are in rebellion to God which clearly means they are unsaved than to suggest men needed to be circumcised to be...

@ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Paul had to deal with people like you in Galatians. It is no different to suggest godly female pastors are in rebellion to God which clearly means they are unsaved

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-05

@at_M_J_F_ @heaveniscallin1 @FrMatthewLC Rather, I’m working hard to demonstrate what the plain meaning of the text is by carefully considering everything in the grammar, context and how Paul applies it in his own life. When Paul is clear in Galatia...

@at_M_J_F_ @heaveniscallin1 @FrMatthewLC Rather, I’m working hard to demonstrate what the plain meaning of the text is by carefully considering everything in the grammar, context and how Paul applies

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

While appreciating the beauty in cultural and ethnic differences, it’s vital to recognize that in Christ’s church, God has removed the ethnic dividing wall. Galatians 3:28 tells us, ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, fo...

While appreciating the beauty in cultural and ethnic differences, it’s vital to recognize that in Christ’s church, God has removed the ethnic dividing wall. Galatians 3:28 tells us, ‘There is neither

Galatians 3:28 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-03

@DanBerkholder Maybe he had in mind protesting a drag queen event by reading the

@DanBerkholder Maybe he had in mind protesting a drag queen event by reading the book of Galatians over a loud speaker? I can get behind this. https://t.co/vPoGvHQPJe

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