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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Additional practical questions: interviewing women, women on church boards, women evangelists, conference speakers, voting for a woman president, women as bosses, stay-at-home dads.

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

gender roles practical application women in leadership

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-30

Influence is not the same as eldership — a governor has massive influence but is not your church elder

Mike uses analogies to distinguish influence from the specific authority of eldership.

eldership influence vs. authority

Mike Winger idea 2022-12-04

Extended analysis of the Livy passage shows different concepts than 1 Corinthians 14

Mike reads the broader Livy context to show it concerns political lobbying, not learning.

Livy political lobbying learning vs. requesting

Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Hard patriarchalist positions on restricting women

Mike describes the most extreme patriarchalist restrictions.

patriarchalism women voting women in education

Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

The big question: how far do we draw the application beyond marriage and eldership?

Mike frames the central application question of the video.

soft complementarianism patriarchalism application spectrum

Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Women voting: no biblical case for restricting it

Mike addresses whether women should be allowed to vote.

Deborah women voting Pharisee analogy

Mike Winger idea 2018-02-07

Todd White's leg-lengthening video analyzed: hand pivoting, body swinging, and foot angle changes account for the apparent growth — at a rental car location in Israel.

Third example video: Todd White performing a leg-lengthening healing.

Todd White healing fraud physical manipulation

Mike Winger idea 2018-02-07

Summary of the leg manipulation mechanism: pivoting feet, turning ankles outward, curving toes, turning ankles inward — multiple techniques combine to create the illusion of leg growth or shrinkage.

Consolidating the technical analysis across multiple leg-lengthening videos.

healing fraud physical manipulation leg lengthening

Mike Winger idea 2018-10-17

Mike has watched James White's response to his Calvinism video and appreciates the brotherly spirit; a formal response will have to wait until after his resurrection debate and additional study of the recommended reading.

Q&A section: a viewer asks about Mike's reaction to James White's response video on Calvinism.

James White resurrection Calvinism James White

Mike Winger idea 2018-12-17

Jeremiah 10:1-2 context: 'Don't learn the ways of the nations' is not a blanket prohibition

Reading the passage from the beginning

Jeremiah 10:1-2 Contextual interpretation Jeremiah 10:1-2 Ways of the nations

Mike Winger idea 2019-02-13

Christians should engage in politics as salt and light; political views must be biblically tested

Viewer asking whether Christians should get involved in politics, referencing Martin Luther King Jr.

Christian worldview abortion Christians and politics

Mike Winger idea 2019-04-10

Poll manipulation: atheists voted fraudulently as Christians to skew results; example of Jen admitting it

Discussing poll integrity

poll methodology atheist activism

Mike Winger idea 2019-07-31

1 Corinthians 1:16 and 16:15 — Stephanas's household: all converts who devoted themselves to service, not infants

Examination of the Stephanas household baptism reference in Paul's Corinthian correspondence.

1 Corinthians 1:16 1 Corinthians 16:15 Stephanas infant baptism household baptism

Mike Winger idea 2020-10-17

Voting as a Christian moral obligation in a democracy

Q from Woolpack about whether it is a sin for a Christian not to vote.

Government Voting Civic Responsibility

Mike Winger idea 2020-02-19

Even if you're unsure about early-term abortion, the "maybe" should compel you to oppose it — you wouldn't demolish a building that "maybe" has people in it. And if you draw the line anywhere, you should be fighting for that line instead of voting for unrestricted abortion.

The building demolition analogy and fighting for your convictions

abortion Born-Alive Act

Mike Winger idea 2020-02-19

Q&A: Single-issue (pro-life) voting is legitimate because abortion is a deal-breaker moral issue. Mike would vote for a pro-life candidate with bad economic policies because saving lives outweighs financial pain.

Q&A — single-issue voting on abortion

abortion pro-life single-issue voting

Mike Winger idea 2020-10-29

The historical problem of racism in the US is genuinely appalling — race is a social construct invented to justify white dominance, US chattel slavery was predicated on the anti-gospel act of man-stealing, and legalized racism lasted ~340 years (1619-1964).

Honest accounting of US racial history before critiquing CRT

1 Timothy 1:10 Acts 17:26 1 Timothy 1:10 racism history US Acts 17:26

Mike Winger idea 2024-09-06

Voting for the “Lesser of 2 Evils”?: Is it biblical to vote for “the lesser of two evils”? Could you point to something in Scripture to help us understand why or why not?

Q&A question: Voting for the “Lesser of 2 Evils”?

Additional practical questions: interviewing women, women on church boards, women evangelists, conference speakers, voting for a woman president, women as bosses, stay-at-home dads.

Influence is not the same as eldership — a governor has massive influence but is not your church elder

Extended analysis of the Livy passage shows different concepts than 1 Corinthians 14

Hard patriarchalist positions on restricting women

The big question: how far do we draw the application beyond marriage and eldership?

Women voting: no biblical case for restricting it

Todd White's leg-lengthening video analyzed: hand pivoting, body swinging, and foot angle changes account for the apparent growth — at a rental car location in Israel.

Summary of the leg manipulation mechanism: pivoting feet, turning ankles outward, curving toes, turning ankles inward — multiple techniques combine to create the illusion of leg growth or shrinkage.

Mike has watched James White's response to his Calvinism video and appreciates the brotherly spirit; a formal response will have to wait until after his resurrection debate and additional study of the recommended reading.

Jeremiah 10:1-2 context: 'Don't learn the ways of the nations' is not a blanket prohibition

Christians should engage in politics as salt and light; political views must be biblically tested

Poll manipulation: atheists voted fraudulently as Christians to skew results; example of Jen admitting it

1 Corinthians 1:16 and 16:15 — Stephanas's household: all converts who devoted themselves to service, not infants

Voting as a Christian moral obligation in a democracy

Even if you're unsure about early-term abortion, the "maybe" should compel you to oppose it — you wouldn't demolish a building that "maybe" has people in it. And if you draw the line anywhere, you should be fighting for that line instead of voting for unrestricted abortion.

Q&A: Single-issue (pro-life) voting is legitimate because abortion is a deal-breaker moral issue. Mike would vote for a pro-life candidate with bad economic policies because saving lives outweighs financial pain.

The historical problem of racism in the US is genuinely appalling — race is a social construct invented to justify white dominance, US chattel slavery was predicated on the anti-gospel act of man-stealing, and legalized racism lasted ~340 years (1619-1964).

Voting for the “Lesser of 2 Evils”?: Is it biblical to vote for “the lesser of two evils”? Could you point to something in Scripture to help us understand why or why not?

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