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Scripture Commentary article 2020-06-02

The Giving Part 2: Judas the Betrayer, a Balanced View of the Sovereignty of God

[Music] the giving is a balanced view of the sovereignty of God God's sovereignty is vitally important for us to know God yet it's God's sovereignty taught as a system of theological thought which can lead to a person reading into the biblical text an outside concept that is foreign to the writers i...

Luke 22:18 Luke 22:21 Luke 22:3 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement
Scripture Commentary article 2012-11-22

Was Judas predestined to be lost?

Is Judas a problem for your theology? He can be a problem if some of your beliefs come from tradition and not from the Scriptures. In this article, I would like to discuss the full Scriptural view of Judas and ask you to test your own understanding against what the Scripture reveals.

2 Timothy 2:13 John 13:1 John 13:10–11 Soteriology Calvinism Predestination & Election
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@AshFarms The four gospel accounts are a great place to start, but you can also

@AshFarms The four gospel accounts are a great place to start, but you can also read from different parts together. For example, reading Matthew but also Genesis and a Psalm. There are reading plans t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-17

@ReformedSteven @Christianous100 @RevKimWChafee Hey, if your version of authority is to serve the other person’s needs and desires (ie. the one who is first is the slave of all), then I’m all for that kind of authority. Can you show me where Jesus t...

@ReformedSteven @Christianous100 @RevKimWChafee Hey, if your version of authority is to serve the other person’s needs and desires (ie. the one who is first is the slave of all), then I’m all for that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 I read them. You can tell. You have read the scriptures, right? Co

@Methodios007 I read them. You can tell. You have read the scriptures, right? Compare them with the false gospel accounts I shared.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 You can tell by just reading them. In every case, you can tell just by reading it what is not the same as scripture (is not inspired), contains contradictions, anachronisms, says very strange things, contradicts the clear primary gospel...

@Methodios007 You can tell by just reading them. In every case, you can tell just by reading it what is not the same as scripture (is not inspired), contains contradictions, anachronisms, says very st

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-15

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual critic, Dr. Daniel Wallace on Pauline authorship of 1...

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual cri

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-14

@riseaboveideas1 @wendelltalks Eyewitness testimony is always like this. Each person notices different things. In fact, this is what investigators look for specifically ensuring witnesses don’t collude before giving their testimony. In the gospel ...

@riseaboveideas1 @wendelltalks Eyewitness testimony is always like this. Each person notices different things. In fact, this is what investigators look for specifically ensuring witnesses don’t coll

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-02

@ronhenzel If only ChatGPT believed in the inspiration of all scripture includin

@ronhenzel If only ChatGPT believed in the inspiration of all scripture including the gospel accounts, it would agree with me that Judas participated. Ron, do you believe that the gospels are inspire

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-13

@masonmennenga Right, but I'm referring to Jesus in His ministry as recorded in the gospel accounts. One curious prisoner was John the Baptist who seemed to doubt that Jesus was the Messiah as John was rotting in prison while Jesus was preaching. O...

@masonmennenga Right, but I'm referring to Jesus in His ministry as recorded in the gospel accounts. One curious prisoner was John the Baptist who seemed to doubt that Jesus was the Messiah as John w

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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

The Episcopal Church's spiritual resurrection view contradicts the Jewish meaning of 'resurrection' — N.T. Wright and the physical risen Lord

Q&A — response to Philip Rushing's question about churches denying the physical resurrection

N.T. Wright resurrection spiritual resurrection theory
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Mike answers 'no' when asked whether any factual claim in the Gospels probably didn't occur

Q&A — Cam Spears's question about Gospel historicity

New Testament Gospel historicity
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-20

1 Corinthians 15:3-8 — the resurrection creed: appearances to Peter, the twelve, 500+, James, all apostles, and Paul

The full resurrection appearance list in 1 Corinthians 15 as evidence Paul knew the historical Jesus and the witnesses to his resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:3-8 James (brother of Jesus) Paul the Apostle post-resurrection appearances resurrection creed
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-20

Bauckham's theory: named individuals are living eyewitness sources the author is appealing to

The positive explanation for why some individuals are named in Gospel accounts.

Richard Bauckham Gospel historicity eyewitness guarantors
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-20

Bart Ehrman's argument that harmonizing the Gospels means writing a new Gospel — Mike's refutation

Q&A addressing Ehrman's specific anti-harmonization argument.

Bart Ehrman Gospel reliability harmonization
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-27

Acrosolia tomb type - archaeologically confirmed matches Gospel descriptions

Physical archaeology of 1st century Jerusalem tombs

Acrosolia Archaeology
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-16

Irreconcilable variation in empty tomb accounts — evidence for independence

McLatchie presents apparent discrepancies between Gospel accounts of the empty tomb as evidence for their independence.

Mark 16:1 Matthew 28:1 Luke 24:10 empty tomb Jonathan McLatchie historicity of the Gospels
Mike Winger idea 2019-06-19

Richard Carrier's claim that all extra-biblical sources simply copy Gospel accounts is refuted by Tacitus's late date and hostile stance

Refuting Carrier's hypothesis that non-Christian sources merely echo the Gospels

Richard Carrier Tacitus Jesus mythicism
Mike Winger idea 2019-06-19

Audience question: "Consensus holds Jesus existed but was not the Christ of the Gospels" — Licona: that is not a consensus position

Audience Q&A — addressing the claimed scholarly consensus against Gospel accounts

scholarly consensus historicity of Jesus Jesus's miracles
Mike Winger idea 2020-05-21

Undesigned coincidences: subtle agreements between independent gospel accounts that are too incidental to be deliberate. Example: John says Jesus asked Philip where to buy bread (John 6); only Luke says the feeding was near Bethsaida; only John says Philip and Andrew were from Bethsaida. The connection (Jesus asked the local guys) only appears when you combine the accounts — no single author engineered it.

Undesigned coincidences — cross-gospel subtle agreements

John James Blunt John 6 feeding 5000 Bethsaida undesigned coincidences Bethsaida