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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 2022-11-25

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

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

1 Cor. 12:1–30 1 Corinthians 1:11 1 Corinthians 1:16 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
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 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 tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Just because priests were all men in the old covenant doesn't mean that women were forbidden to teach God's ordinances to God's people. Where are you getting that from? Why would God forbid anyone from teaching someone the truth? They...

@JonByers186054 Just because priests were all men in the old covenant doesn't mean that women were forbidden to teach God's ordinances to God's people. Where are you getting that from? Why would God f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-11-19

@dalepartridge If it is truly nature that teaches us that a man’s hair ought to

@dalepartridge If it is truly nature that teaches us that a man’s hair ought to be short and a woman’s hair ought to be long, then nature would have applied under the old covenant also. Are you sayin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@RichardFinke69 @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Tribe of Levi was Old Testament —there were no female priests in the old covenant. Priscilla is my favourite early church mother and apostle. If you don’t accept her, then Junia. The ecumenical councils...

@RichardFinke69 @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii Tribe of Levi was Old Testament —there were no female priests in the old covenant. Priscilla is my favourite early church mother and apostle. If you don’

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-24

@RealElliottHope @PeterThreshwood @smashbaals The church in the first 300 years

@RealElliottHope @PeterThreshwood @smashbaals The church in the first 300 years had no temple or specific buildings to meet in. This is a fact. The temple changed from a building under the old covena

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-31

@Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Not in the way that is being prop

@Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Not in the way that is being proposed because we have leaders like Deborah and it seems it’s more of an issue for you than for them. But the church has n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-01

@BogdanOancea77 @pauldirks @KaeleyT Again, I ask, if circumcision was required i

@BogdanOancea77 @pauldirks @KaeleyT Again, I ask, if circumcision was required in the old covenant, was it possible for women to be saved?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-18

@Converted84 @ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @HeidiSchlumpf @dearmisskate The RC churc

@Converted84 @ThomasReeseSJ @NCRonline @HeidiSchlumpf @dearmisskate The RC church seems to be reenacting the priesthood from the old covenant. That priesthood is not present in the church.

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Theology verse entry

Galatians 3:26-29

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Galatians 3:26-29 inheritance,sonship,equality,salvation,sanctification,Judaizers,bondage,egalitarian,Galatians 3:28
Theology verse entry

Galatians 5:1-6

Sections: exegesis, greek_analysis

Galatians 5:1-6 circumcision,freedom,bondage,yoke,faith working through love,egalitarian
Theology verse entry

Numbers 6:2-18

Sections: exegesis, greek_analysis

Numbers 6:2-18 Nazirite vow,hair,men and women,equality,head covering,egalitarian
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
Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

Jesus took only the bread and wine from the Passover meal — the Lord's Supper is the fulfillment of Passover, not its continuation

Q&A: Damien asks about the relationship between Passover and the Lord's Supper.

Lord's Supper Passover Old Covenant / New Covenant
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-15

Big picture point 3: The Law was always heading toward replacement—Jeremiah 31 predicts a New Covenant unlike the old

Third foundational contextual claim: the Law had a built-in expiration point

Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 8:13 New Covenant Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 8:13
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-15

Hebrews 9:9-10 describes Mosaic regulations as a placeholder "until the time of reformation"

Further development of the Law's built-in temporality

Hebrews 9:9-10 dietary laws Hebrews 9:9-10 Levitical law
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-15

Matthew 5:17 must be read pre-New Covenant: Jesus is speaking to Jews before the cross

Key hermeneutical frame for interpreting the Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5:17 hermeneutics Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:17
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-15

John 4:21-24 — Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that worship will shift from Jerusalem to "spirit and truth"

Example of Jesus himself signaling a transition beyond Mosaic Law structures

John 4:19-24 Deuteronomy centralization of worship John 4:19-24 worship in spirit and truth temple worship
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-09

Colossians — New Testament prohibition against borrowing pagan or Old Covenant practices

New Testament argument against adopting New Age spiritual practices

Colossians Paul Colossians New Age
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-23

The Old Covenant is "eternal" in the sense that Christ fulfilled it — fulfillment, not destruction, transitions to the New Covenant

Question from Jason and Alana about how the Old Covenant can be everlasting yet superseded.

Jeremiah 31 Matthew 5:17 Galatians 3 Jeremiah 31 New Covenant fulfillment of the law
Mike Winger idea 2021-02-12

Q10: Galatians 4:27 — who is 'the desolate one'? Mike leans toward not forcing the Hagar/Sarah identification; Paul draws on Isaiah 54:1

Viewer Zoe Abundant asks whether the 'desolate one' in Galatians 4:27 refers to Sarah or Hagar.

Galatians 4:21-27 Isaiah 54:1 typology Paul the Apostle New Jerusalem
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-26

Mark 7:14-19 — Jesus declares all foods clean by distinguishing ceremonial uncleanness from moral defilement; the Levitical purity laws were pedagogical, not moral.

Tabitha Littman asks why Jesus seems appalled that Jews believed touching/eating certain things made them unclean given God instituted those laws in Leviticus.

Acts 15 Leviticus 11 Mark 7:14-19 Acts 15 Pharisees Leviticus 11
Mike Winger idea 2021-09-03

About the OT Law & Sacrifices vs. Faith: Why was the old covenant law set up to require animal sacrifice, since we see Abraham was atoned for by his faith in the promise to come of what was Jesus (dimly perceived)?

Q&A question: About the OT Law & Sacrifices vs. Faith

Abraham Jesus
Mike Winger idea 2021-12-10

Does God Bless in Material Ways?: Does God still bless us in material ways, or was that just for the old covenant and now He solely blesses us in spiritual ways?

Q&A question: Does God Bless in Material Ways?

covenant theology
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-29

Did People Evangelize in the OT?: Why wasn’t evangelism a focus in the Old Covenant? How were Gentiles far away from Israel supposed to learn about Yahweh, and what opportunities for salvation did they have?

Q&A question: Did People Evangelize in the OT?

salvation angels
Mike Winger idea 2022-12-09

Slavery in the Old Covenant: How do we reconcile the treatment of foreigner slaves (not Israelite servitude) under the old covenant (bought as property, handed down to children, etc. – Leviticus 25: 44-46)?

Q&A question: Slavery in the Old Covenant

Leviticus 25 Leviticus 25
Mike Winger idea 2023-12-29

Why Follow Any of the OT?: What would you say to the objection that “if we don't follow the old covenant anymore, why should we care about Leviticus 18”?

Q&A question: Why Follow Any of the OT?

covenant theology
Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

When was the Old Covenant in Effect?: Hebrews 8: 13 says that the Old Covenant is becoming obsolete and about to disappear. Does this mean the Old Covenant was still in effect at the time this book was written?

Q&A question: When was the Old Covenant in Effect?

Hebrews 8 Hebrews 8
Mike Winger idea 2024-06-28

When did the Old Covenant End?: When did the Old Covenant officially end? Christ's birth? Death (Temple veil torn in 2)? Resurrection? Pentecost? 70 A.D. (destruction of the Temple)? Or was it a gradual "end" similar to U.S. slavery?

Q&A question: When did the Old Covenant End?

resurrection
Mike Winger idea 2025-02-14

Indwelling of the Spirit: How it Differs: What about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit makes us unique compared to Old Covenant believers? I’ve never quite grasped what difference it makes.

Q&A question: Indwelling of the Spirit: How it Differs

Holy Spirit covenant theology
Mike Winger idea 2025-10-24

OT Food Laws vs. Homosexuality?: If we aren't required to keep the Old Covenant food laws, then why are the unclean animals described in Deuteronomy 14:3 with the same Hebrew word for homosexuality in Leviticus 18?

Q&A question: OT Food Laws vs. Homosexuality?

homosexuality