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Scripture Commentary article 2024-08-09

Women in Places of Power in the Old Testament

Research clippings examining the Proverbs 31 woman as a public figure praised at the city gates — the seat of legal and civic authority. Argues that King Lemuel's mother was a prophet whose oracle comprises the chapter, and that the Proverbs 31 woman exercised judgment and public leadership, not merely domestic roles.

2 Kings 10:8–9 Amos 5:10 Amos 5:15 Genesis & Creation Women in Leadership Egalitarianism
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 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 2012-02-07

Masculine Christianity

This is part 2 of What God intended at creation and it is inspired by a recent lecture given by John Piper where he states that God’s intention for Christianity is for it to have a “ masculine feel “. After discussing John Piper’s Masculine Christianity, I will give my critique of his masculine argu

1 Corinthians 2:1 1 Timothy 2:12 2 Kings 22:3 Ephesians 5 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation
Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-15

They Are Sinning Through Questioning

The issue of women in ministry allows us to the opportunity to ask questions about the hard passages of scripture and to work through these passages to discover God’s intended meaning through the inspired context. But in many quarters, questioning is a “sin” that will get a reprimand from a strong a

1 Peter 5:1-3 Jeremiah 23:1 Titus 1:7 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2008-12-29

A Soft Place To Land

As a woman in ministry, I have struggles like everyone else, wanting to do my best for the Lord Jesus, yet finding opposition from the enemy who tries to sap my strength and take away my passion. Sometimes there isn’t even a soft place to land when places/people which have been trusted as a safe pla

Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2008-10-30

1 Timothy 2 Authority And The Magical Pulpit

Many people feel that the pulpit is a place for authoritative proclamation. However many people also believe that the pulpit gives a man that authority and allowing someone into the “pulpit” who isn’t allowed to exercise authority over the sheep, an authority that the pulpit gives them, is seen as a

1 Kings 4:24 1 Kings 9:23 1 Peter 4:10 1 Timothy 2
Scripture Commentary article 2008-10-03

Women Leaders To Judge Sinful Men

It is very common for hierarchists to explain away Deborah’s position as Judge in the nation of Israel as merely a judgment by God

Isaiah 11:32 Isaiah 3:1 Isaiah 3:12 Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-12

Primogeniture

In the next of Matt Slick’s articles on women in ministry that I will be reviewing is his article called Primogeniture found at Matt gives what he considers to be the meaning of primogeniture:

Exodus 31:9 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2008-03-10

Circumcision The Woman And The Kinsman Redeemer

In dealing with women in ministry, the question has been asked of me, isn’t circumcision a proof that God only wants men to minister through leading and teaching since God gave the sign of circumcision for males only to his people in the Old Testament. Did God give preferential treatment to males wh

Acts 7:51 Deuteronomy 10:16 Deuteronomy 30:6 Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2007-12-07

Laying A False Argument To Rest

One of the arguments that complementarians employ against women in ministry is the argument that God only used women as prophets and leaders in the Bible when there were no men available at the time. Is this really a valid argument

2 Kings 22:12 2 Kings 22:13 2 Kings 22:14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-03

Is Short Hair A Sin For A Woman

Continuing on with our verse by verse discussion through the section of 1 Corinthians 11 about women, we come to verse 13:

1 Corinthians 11:13 1 Corinthians 11:14 1 Corinthians 11:15 1 Corinthians 11
Scripture Commentary article 2007-03-08

Is Adam The Representative Head Of The Human Race

Those who believe that God created a hierarchical relationship between men and women will usually state that God created Adam as the “federal head” of the human race. This “federal headship” is said to be not only physical in that all of humanity has its origin in Adam, but spiritual because of a di

1 Timothy 2:14 Colossians 2:11 Colossians 2:13 Genesis & Creation Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-29

@BrettBreakerZ @JosephTrimmer_ What I quoted shows that God doesn’t contradict His former instruction. Now look at 1Nephi and consider that Lehi claims he heard God tell him to disobey a direct command from God to Jeremiah. Jeremiah said that anyone...

@BrettBreakerZ @JosephTrimmer_ What I quoted shows that God doesn’t contradict His former instruction. Now look at 1Nephi and consider that Lehi claims he heard God tell him to disobey a direct comma

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-28

@LatterDayBean The second statement may be correct but the first and third state

@LatterDayBean The second statement may be correct but the first and third statements are clearly wrong. Early on in the BOM, Lehi claims God tells him he can disobey Jeremiah’s word that everyone is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-27

@Adminosaurus I read to where Lehi defied God’s word through Jeremiah and I knew it was false. The fruits include the teaching. Being family oriented is great but if the teaching is false none of that matters. Mt 11⎯ Jesus was also born of a woman; ...

@Adminosaurus I read to where Lehi defied God’s word through Jeremiah and I knew it was false. The fruits include the teaching. Being family oriented is great but if the teaching is false none of that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-24

@limedoorstudio The BOM early on in 1 Nephi has God telling Nehi and Lehi to flee Jerusalem to the Americas when Jeremiah’s prophecy was that all including the wild animals and even all the faithful prophets were to submit to the king of Babylon and ...

@limedoorstudio The BOM early on in 1 Nephi has God telling Nehi and Lehi to flee Jerusalem to the Americas when Jeremiah’s prophecy was that all including the wild animals and even all the faithful p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-21

@TeeplesCY Joseph Smith was a false prophet. His teachings are evidence. The Book of Mormon claims Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey the instruction of Jeremiah and flee to America and not to submit to Nebuchadnezzar when all people, good or bad, m...

@TeeplesCY Joseph Smith was a false prophet. His teachings are evidence. The Book of Mormon claims Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey the instruction of Jeremiah and flee to America and not to submit

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-20

@azuritian What does the Book of Mormon add to the Bible? It contains no doctrinal statements. And how does one explain how Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey a direct command of God through Jeremiah, that all—including Jeremiah and Daniel and Ezeki...

@azuritian What does the Book of Mormon add to the Bible? It contains no doctrinal statements. And how does one explain how Lehi and Nehi were told to disobey a direct command of God through Jeremiah

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book of Mormon teaches that Lehi obeyed God by fleeing Jerusalem, while Jeremiah (God’s true prophet) declared that the Lord had given all nations (including all the true prophets), even the...

@LdsLawyer2156 Joseph Smith was a false prophet because the Book of Mormon teaches that Lehi obeyed God by fleeing Jerusalem, while Jeremiah (God’s true prophet) declared that the Lord had given all n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-27

@TryinDaily @BrandonABourg @sister_slay Nephi and Lehi didn’t obey Jeremiah’s word that everyone—including Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel and all the true prophets and even the animals had to submit to Nebuchadnezzar. Anyone that said otherwise, Jeremiah...

@TryinDaily @BrandonABourg @sister_slay Nephi and Lehi didn’t obey Jeremiah’s word that everyone—including Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel and all the true prophets and even the animals had to submit to Neb

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-23

@heirofascania Here’s another relevant passage. All the true prophets submitted

@heirofascania Here’s another relevant passage. All the true prophets submitted to Nebuchadnezzar…Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc. https://t.co/4f0JH1qil6

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-23

@heirofascania But Nephi and Lehi didn’t obey Jeremiah’s word that everyone—incl

@heirofascania But Nephi and Lehi didn’t obey Jeremiah’s word that everyone—including Jeremiah and the good prophets and even the animals had to submit to Nebuchadnezzar. And anyone that said otherwis

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-27

@DawnTreloa22996 @DrFrankTurek As I was reading the Book of Mormon, in the first bit I realized that Nephi and Lehi (I hope I remembered who it was correctly) were being told to leave for America which was expressly forbidden by Jeremiah. Jeremiah sa...

@DawnTreloa22996 @DrFrankTurek As I was reading the Book of Mormon, in the first bit I realized that Nephi and Lehi (I hope I remembered who it was correctly) were being told to leave for America whic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@Twinjeremiah @BenZeisloft The Greek is μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα or literally "one wife husband." This phrase is stated twice, once in v2 for elders and once in v12 for deacons. The NIV translates as "faithful to his wife" but I'm asserting that this is a...

@Twinjeremiah @BenZeisloft The Greek is μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα or literally "one wife husband." This phrase is stated twice, once in v2 for elders and once in v12 for deacons. The NIV translates as "fait

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-25

@Valiant12312 @MikeWingerii Jeremiah—respectfully, you cannot continue in unrepe

@Valiant12312 @MikeWingerii Jeremiah—respectfully, you cannot continue in unrepentant sin and remain in Christian community. Mike literally dropped a grenade on the church and walked out “cause I got

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-24

@9xix113 @JeremiahGofung Deception is tied to the timeline of creation. If you consider Genesis 2 carefully, you will find that God creates some animals in front of Adam and plants and causes to grow plants so that Adam has experience of God creatin...

@9xix113 @JeremiahGofung Deception is tied to the timeline of creation. If you consider Genesis 2 carefully, you will find that God creates some animals in front of Adam and plants and causes to grow

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-08

@Jeremiahsentme @FrancisDePaul1 @Busybee32433175 @SpesMagnaMark @father_rmv Also

@Jeremiahsentme @FrancisDePaul1 @Busybee32433175 @SpesMagnaMark @father_rmv Also… https://t.co/bX4IlcWvef

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-08

@Jeremiahsentme @FrancisDePaul1 @Busybee32433175 @SpesMagnaMark @father_rmv 1 Ti

@Jeremiahsentme @FrancisDePaul1 @Busybee32433175 @SpesMagnaMark @father_rmv 1 Tim 2:11-15 deals with a specific deceived woman who is teaching false doctrine. It is not restricting qualified women fr

1 Tim 2:11-15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-27

To help condense an important extended rebuttal to @HwsEleutheroi James White's claim that God ordains evil, I've summarized Cheryl's points in the following: 1. White claims God decrees evil but is not the author of sin. Her rebuttal cites Jeremia...

To help condense an important extended rebuttal to @HwsEleutheroi James White's claim that God ordains evil, I've summarized Cheryl's points in the following: 1. White claims God decrees evil but is

Jeremiah 19:5 general
Theology verse entry

Judges 4:4-9

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Judges 4:4-9 Deborah,judge,prophetess,woman leader,Barak,Israel,egalitarian
Theology verse entry

John 6:43-45

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

John 6:43-45 soteriology,drawing,teaching,irresistible grace,Calvinism,provisionism,taught by God
Theology verse entry

John 6:44

Sections: debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

John 6:44 soteriology,drawing,irresistible grace,helko,inability,Calvinism,provisionism
Theology verse entry

John 12:32

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

John 12:32 soteriology,sovereignty,drawing,Calvinism,provisionism,universal atonement
Theology verse entry

Romans 11:25-36

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Romans 11:25-36 Israel,olive tree,hardening,mercy to all,election,doxology,soteriology
Theology verse entry

Matthew 23:37

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Matthew 23:37 resistible grace,God's desire,human will,Jerusalem,soteriology
Theology verse entry

Exodus 15:20-21

Sections: exegesis

Exodus 15:20-21 miriam,prophetess,worship leader,women leadership,song of the sea
Theology verse entry

2 Kings 22:14-20

Sections: exegesis

2 Kings 22:14-20 huldah,prophetess,women leadership,josiah,book of the law
Theology verse entry

Joel 2:28-29

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Joel 2:28-29 prophecy,Spirit outpouring,daughters,women prophets,Pentecost,egalitarian,Joel,Acts 2,Peter sermon,last days
Theology verse entry

Numbers 12:1-15

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Numbers 12:1-15 Miriam,Aaron,tsaraat,prophetess,female leadership,WIM,egalitarian,Moses unique mediator,Deborah,Huldah,Micah 6:4
Theology greek term

ἕλκω (helkō)

to draw, attract, drag

greek
Theology greek term

יִנָּבְאוּ (yinnābe'û)

they will prophesy (niphal imperfect 3mp of נָבָא)

greek
Theology greek term

נְבִיאָה (nĕbî'āh)

prophetess (feminine of נָבִיא)

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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Egalitarian talking point: Huldah was chosen over contemporary male prophets Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habakkuk.

Presenting the egalitarian case for Huldah's prominence

Jeremiah Zephaniah Nahum Philip Payne Craig Keener Paul, Women, and Wives
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Rebuttal: there is no textual indication they chose Huldah over other prophets; proximity in Jerusalem is a better explanation.

Mike's pushback on the Huldah argument

2 Kings 22:14 hermeneutics Huldah 2 Kings 22:14
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Not all prophets are equal: prophets had different scopes and sizes of ministry — being a prophet doesn't mean you did everything every prophet ever did.

Distinguishing degrees of prophetic ministry

Jeremiah Isaiah Amos Jeremiah Isaiah Amos
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

God doesn't rule out women being prophets; female prophets existed when good men were available (Miriam, Huldah), refuting the 'no good men' argument.

Key conclusion on female prophets

Miriam Huldah prophetess
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-14

Three sources of prophecy in Scripture: from God, from Satan (false prophets), and from the prophet's own heart — the third type is what characterizes most Bethel prophecy

Mike introduces a biblical taxonomy of prophetic sources from Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Jeremiah 23:16 Ezekiel 13:2 prophecy false prophecy Jeremiah 23:16
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-14

Jeremiah 23:16 — prophets prophesying 'a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the Lord'

Mike cites the specific Jeremiah text that establishes the third category of prophecy

Jeremiah 23:16 Jeremiah 23:25-26 prophecy false prophecy Jeremiah 23:16
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-14

Ezekiel 13:2 — 'prophesy against the prophets who prophesy out of their own heart'

Mike cites a second OT prophet condemning heart-sourced prophecy

Ezekiel 13:2 prophecy false prophecy Ezekiel 13:2
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