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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 2024-06-19

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 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 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 2017-12-08

What comes before the Giving? James White and John 6:37

What comes before the giving in John 6:37? Nothing according to Dr. James White on his October 23, 2017 podcast of the Dividing Line Program (segment starts at 1 hr 2 min 30 second mark).

1 Peter 3:15 Acts 10:1 Acts 16:14 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2008-06-19

Was The Man Given Authority To Rule The Woman

This is the fifth and final response to Matt Slick’s article called Genesis 2, Adam and Eve, and Authority

1 Timothy 2:11-15 2 Corinthians 11:3 Genesis 2:16 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-07

Answering Matt Slicks Agenda On 1 Timothy 2:12

This is part 2 of answering the complementarian objections of Matt Slick on 1 Timothy 2:11-15. See part one here

1 Peter 4:11 1 Timothy 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-09

@Bat_Scholar_ @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Seriously? Are you trying to construct a

@Bat_Scholar_ @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Seriously? Are you trying to construct a straw man? Children in general are not qualified to lead, though Timothy was young and Paul had to instruct him to not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii If you think that egalitarians are saying that men are supposed to have babies, then no wonder you reject it. It’s a straw man. We believe men and women are complementary too, and they comp...

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii If you think that egalitarians are saying that men are supposed to have babies, then no wonder you reject it. It’s a straw man. We believe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-12

@freemarketeer1 @Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii ‼️ Straw man alert ‼️

@freemarketeer1 @Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii ‼️ Straw man alert ‼️ Egalitarianism is not about equity (equal outcomes) but equality (equal opportunity).

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@Isaiah45_7 Why do you think this is a straw man? I suppose you probably agree

@Isaiah45_7 Why do you think this is a straw man? I suppose you probably agree it’s ok for women to tell or teach men? Or you think that women can testify just not teach?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-14

@William_E_Wolfe Your phrasing of the comment of 'some pastors' is a nice straw

@William_E_Wolfe Your phrasing of the comment of 'some pastors' is a nice straw man. Enjoy your bonfire.

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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Many egalitarians expand male authority to its most monstrous extreme to make it intolerable, causing readers to reject complementarianism before ever reading the Bible.

Mistake #4: Egalitarian rhetorical strategy

bypassing scripture straw man argument egalitarian rhetoric
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Groothuis's argument only works against an extreme form of complementarianism that most complementarians would also reject — it attacks a straw man.

Mistake #4: Straw man critique

Rebecca Merrill Groothuis straw man argument relational submission
Mike Winger idea 2022-11-11

Martin's later paper shifts: claims he can establish testicle meaning from 1 Corinthians alone

Mike traces the evolution of Martin's argument.

Mark Goodacre straw man argument Troy Martin Mark Goodacre
Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

Kim builds straw men to argue against — e.g., fabricating the objection that Saturday worship is cultish, then refuting it, to avoid real criticism of his actual false teachings

Kim's apologetics section in the Sabbath chapter, around page 47.

Joo-Cheol Kim Sabbath straw man argument
Mike Winger idea 2018-09-05

Closing assessment of Aron Ra: comes across as a zealot for atheism who prioritizes tearing down Christianity over pursuing truth.

Winger summarizes his overall impression of Ra's approach across both videos in the series.

apologetics atheism Aron Ra
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-12

Zahnd's three-step method for dismantling orthodox Christianity and replacing it with his own version

Winger maps out the structural argument Zahnd uses in his book 'Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God.'

discernment apologetics false-teaching
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-12

Zahnd's straw man: misrepresenting 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' as representative of all American Christianity

Winger examines chapter one of Zahnd's book, which opens with extensive quotation from Jonathan Edwards's Puritan sermon.

discernment hell false-teaching
Mike Winger idea 2019-01-30

119 Ministries misrepresents mainstream Christianity as teaching the Old Testament is "no longer true" — Mike corrects this as a straw man

Mike plays and analyzes a 119 Ministries clip that characterizes traditional Christianity as teaching the Old Testament is no longer true.

Genesis 22 Abraham Genesis 22 Law of Moses
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

The book assumes religious people have not thought through their beliefs — which Mike says is demonstrably false

Mike identifies a core assumption embedded in the book

Apologetics A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
Mike Winger idea 2019-04-10

Seth Andrews (The Thinking Atheist) defines faith as "wish thinking" and surrender to unreality

Examining a prominent atheist's definition of faith

definition of faith Seth Andrews faith as wish thinking
Mike Winger idea 2021-01-15

Imputed righteousness does not eliminate moral obligation — it changes the basis of standing before God, not the Christian's motivation to pursue holiness

Question from John Dutton about whether imputed righteousness is biblical and whether it undermines the call to repent from sin.

Romans 3-5 Antinomianism Holiness Sanctification
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-05

Confirmation bias accusations are themselves prone to confirmation bias; fear of confirmation bias is not sufficient reason to disbelieve something

Responding to a young Christian worried that his theism might be confirmation bias given that most atheistic arguments seem like straw men and ad hominem

straw man argument apologetics atheism