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Scripture Commentary article 2026-03-30

1 Corinthians 14 — Research Notes (Cheryl Schatz)

Collection of 5 research notes examining 1 Corinthians 14:34-36, including the eta particle argument for quotation/refutation reading, the non-existent 'law' reference, segregated seating problems, and commentary from RtNT and Bender showing contradictions with Paul's affirmation of women prophesying.

1 Cor 11:2-16 1 Cor 11:22 1 Cor 6:2 1 Corinthians 14 Authority & Submission Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2025-07-26

κεφαλή (kephale) — Logos Clippings (Cheryl Schatz)

A curated collection of Logos Bible Software clippings compiled by Cheryl Schatz examining the Greek word κεφαλή (kephale) and Hebrew רֹאשׁ (rosh). The clippings draw from lexicons, encyclopedias, commentaries, and academic journals to argue that "source/origin" is the primary metaphorical meaning of kephale rather than "authority/leader," with implications for interpreting 1 Corinthians 11, Ephesians 5, and Colossians 1.

1 Cor. 11:12 1 Cor. 11:8 1 Cor. 1:5 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 11 Genesis & Creation
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 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 2024-06-11

Obedience is not a secondary issue

The article argues that the restriction on women serving as pastors, grounded in 1 Timothy 2:12, is not a secondary or debatable theological issue but a plain obedience issue. The author contends Paul's prohibition is rooted in creation order (not culture), making it transcultural and non-negotiable, and that egalitarian interpretations require "obliterating" what Paul plainly says. The piece ends with a challenge to egalitarians: what does obedience or disobedience to this passage actually look like?

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:13 1 Timothy 3 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2024-02-07

Why Mike Winger is Wrong About “Authenteō” in 1 Timothy 2:12 – and Why It Matters

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 12 on the meaning of authenteō in 1 Timothy 2:12

1 Cor. 7:13 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2023-03-10

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: “Women Keep Silent” (1 Cor 14:34–35)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 11 on 'women keep silent' in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

1 Cor 14:35-36 1 Cor. 14:21 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 14 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 2022-11-24

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong With Genesis 1–3: ‘Was Women’s Submission Just A Curse To Be Overturned?’

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 2 on Genesis 1-3 and whether women's submission was just a curse to be overturned

1 Corinthians 11:7-10 1 Corinthians 15:22 1 Corinthians 16:15-16 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2015-05-29

Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels

Kenneth E. Bailey — Kindle highlights from 'Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels'. 19 highlights.

Lev 20:12 Luke 2:7 Mt 28:18-20 Biblical Authority Christology
Scripture Commentary article 2015-03-24

Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions

Gregory Koukl — Kindle highlights from 'Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions'. 123 highlights.

Luke 20:24 Luke 20:4 Mark 2:9 Apologetics
Scripture Commentary article 2013-01-11

God’s conditions: From doing to seeing in John 6:30-33

In my last post , I talked about how Jesus showed the unbelieving crowd, who followed Him in John 6, that the “work” which result is meant to bring the crowd to belief , is God’s work. When Jesus shared that it is God’s work, not the work of the crowd, the crowd demanded a work from Jesus.

John 6:27 John 6:30 John 6:31 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2013-01-05

Does Matthew conflict with Luke about Judas?

In my post about Judas and the last supper, Colin Maxwell, a Calvinist responded to my post, although not responding on this blog, but on his twitter account @weeCalvin.

Luke 1:1–3 Luke 22:18 Luke 22:20–21 Soteriology Calvinism Judas
Scripture Commentary article 2011-09-22

Eve Prototype

This post is the second part of an expansion on the reasons why I believe that 1 Timothy 2:11-15 is about one specific woman and why a general reference to women does not line up with the grammar within the surrounding context. The first points 1 – 4 are discussed here

1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 1:16 1 Timothy 2:11 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2011-06-25

Specific Or General Woman

This post will be an expansion on the reasons why I believe that 1 Timothy 2:11-15 is about one specific woman and why a general reference to women does not line up with the grammar within the surrounding context. I will also consider the challenge to my view from the new verbal aspect theory

1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 1:16 1 Timothy 2:10 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2011-06-14

Repost Authority Vs Submission A Biblical View Of Ephesians 522

My original 2010 post crashed because there were too many comments for my blog to handle, so I am putting up this post again so that people can read the article which is no longer available because of the crash. Thanks to one of my readers who asked me to repost

Amos 21 Colossians 11 Colossians 3:18 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2010-06-02

Submission And Origin Of Authority

When is authority given and when can it be rightfully assumed. These are questions that have divided egalitarians and complementarians in the area of marriage

Ephesians 5:21 Ephesians 6:7 Ephesians 6:9 Ephesians 5 Authority & Submission Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2010-05-23

Authority Vs Submission Biblical View

Yesterday I received two polar opposite views of Ephesians 5:22 by email. One was from “NN” who has responded here in the past

Amos 21 Colossians 11 Colossians 3:18 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2010-05-14

Calling God To Account

While God is Sovereign, some men believe that they can set a limit on God’s gifts. In the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s doctrinal stand, they believe that God is allowed to distribute gifts to men and women alike with the gifts listed in 1 Cor

1 Corinthians 12:10 1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Peter 4:10 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2010-03-14

Men Taken Womens Good Portion

> “…Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. ”  Luke 10:41-42

John 12:3 John 20:15 Luke 10:41 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2010-01-23

Another Christian Organization In Canada Has Charity Status Removed

The following article was sent to me this morning by Mabel, a follower of this blog. The pastor of the church that had its charity status removed in Canada also contacted our ministry as we went through the same kind of persecution from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) regarding their disallowing as

Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2009-09-02

Mike Seaver Cheryl Schatz 10

## Responses to question #5

1 Corinthians 10:15 1 Corinthians 12:28 1 Corinthians 14:36 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2009-08-14

Ask John Piper Do Some Complementarians Deny Women Opportunities

## Do Some Complementarians deny women opportunities

Colossians 14:7 Colossians 14:8 Colossians 14:9 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-29

Mike Seaver And Cheryl Schatz 2

## Facing the spiritual “law” head-on from 1 Corinthians 14

1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 1 Timothy 2:11 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Corinthians 14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-05-23

Paul As He Pleases 9

This is the ninth in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

1 Corinthians 12:11 1 Corinthians 12:17 1 Corinthians 12:18 1 Corinthians 14 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-04-19

Paul_And_Genesis

This is the sixth in a series of simulated interviews with the Apostle Paul taken from the position of what he might say if we could transport Paul from the New Testament account through a time tunnel into our present day

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:13 1 Timothy 2:14 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2009-03-08

Reaching Unity In The Faith Without Authoritarian Control

The picture above represents not only the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled, but women in the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled. It is a great concern to me that there are many in the body who think that authoritarian control is needed to keep people in line and to keep the unity o

Esther 15 Proverbs 18 Authority & Submission Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2009-02-13

King_Uzziah

In an interesting blog post on Pyromaniacs the February 10th post, author Dan Phillips tries to link the rebellion of King Uzziah and his punishment of leprosy with the “unfaithful” act of women who apparently are committing treachery against God by becoming pastors. Is this really true

2 Chronicles 25:1 2 Chronicles 25:14 2 Chronicles 25:15 Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-07

Was 1 Timothy 2 Written To The Church

Complementarians claim that 1 Timothy 2:12 is universally applicable because they say it was written for the church to know how to behave. According to John MacArthur, in God’s High Calling for Women part 1 , 1 Timothy was written to “set the church in order”

1 Timothy 1:3 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:9 1 Timothy 2 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-30

Three Spheres Of Subordination Shrinks To Two

In my last post I pointed to USA Today’s editorial that challenged complementarians who are willing to accept a woman as the Vice President of the country, that they should admit that they are full fledged egalitarians in the realm of society, the workplace and public life

Colossians 11:7-9 Genesis 2:18 Headship & Kephale Trinity Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-08-24

Satan The Liar

In this post I would like to talk about one verse and its application to the book of Genesis

Genesis 3:22 Genesis 3:5 John 8:44 Genesis & Creation
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 2008-05-18

Eve Deceived Adam Not

For a PDF copy of this article click here Eve was Deceived pdf file

1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 1:6 1 Timothy 1:7 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-14

Scriptural Fences

One of the helpful things in interpreting scripture is to identify what I call “scriptural fences”. These special verses force us to interpret the passage within the limits set up by the “fence” line

1 Corinthians 14:34 1 Corinthians 14:36 1 Corinthians 7:1 1 Corinthians 11 Trinity Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-04-20

Hierarchical Teaching Influences The Doctrine Of The Trinity

One of the ways that hierarchical teaching has influenced the church since the 1970’s is in the area of the doctrine of the Trinity. In hierarchical teaching, the Trinity is no longer three functionally equal persons who share the same nature

Ecclesiastes 2 Trinity Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-30

The Rest Of The Story 1 Timothy 211 15 And Matt Slick

> Proverbs 18:17 (ESV) The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him

1 Peter 4:10 1 Peter 4:11 1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 2 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-05-16

Paul And The Head From 1 Corinthians 11

1 Corinthians 11 has been a hotly disputed passage regarding the meaning of “head”

1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@JamesPelton18 @The_Sig_ @TinaFoughty Perhaps there is some application in the context of a church in that you do not support your adult children who are living in unrepentant sin. A person who refuses to judge their children simply b/c they are thei...

@JamesPelton18 @The_Sig_ @TinaFoughty Perhaps there is some application in the context of a church in that you do not support your adult children who are living in unrepentant sin. A person who refuse

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-18

@The_Sig_ @The_Home_Six The Father and the Son are equal in all eternity, but what happened in the incarnation is Jesus set aside His glory and the right to act on His own initiative. Unless you are like the glorified Father and your wife is like the...

@The_Sig_ @The_Home_Six The Father and the Son are equal in all eternity, but what happened in the incarnation is Jesus set aside His glory and the right to act on His own initiative. Unless you are l

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

Mike Winger rightly says that ἐπιτρέπω (“permit”) doesn’t inherently mean temporary or ongoing—it depends on context. I agree. But that’s exactly the issue: the context of 1Ti 2:12 shows this is not a universal law, but a situational application of ...

Mike Winger rightly says that ἐπιτρέπω (“permit”) doesn’t inherently mean temporary or ongoing—it depends on context. I agree. But that’s exactly the issue: the context of 1Ti 2:12 shows this is not

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Truthsearcher53 Yes, that’s the final application, but it is clear that women a

@Truthsearcher53 Yes, that’s the final application, but it is clear that women are opposed too. Satan went for Eve, after all. Then Adam rules his wife which was never what he was supposed to do which

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-03

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Do you also consider the fruits of the Holy Spirit to be fem

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Do you also consider the fruits of the Holy Spirit to be feminine? Peace, patience, kindness, gentleness? Also, what is third person application?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-11-20

@pauldirks If the atonement is unlimited in value and applies to all (as Shedd says), but the application is limited to the elect, then this amounts to God deciding to die for someone but not give them the benefit due to God's 'passing over them.' Ra...

@pauldirks If the atonement is unlimited in value and applies to all (as Shedd says), but the application is limited to the elect, then this amounts to God deciding to die for someone but not give the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-26

@JonLawr45183174 @ScottCross_8 @jhillky2 @masonmennenga No one is hopefully advo

@JonLawr45183174 @ScottCross_8 @jhillky2 @masonmennenga No one is hopefully advocating for the misuse or misapplication of scripture. Just highlighting these to capture both sides.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-01

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii And many other effects of sin that were not mentio

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii And many other effects of sin that were not mentioned by God in Ge 3. I think Ge 3:15-18 had particular application to Adam and Eve. The Pro 31:13,16 are pretty clear th

Ge 3:15-18 Pro 31:13 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-01

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Surely there was a special application to their re

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Surely there was a special application to their relationship, though we can clearly see patterns throughout history of the mistreatment and subjugation of women. This is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@avyargo @Rick07200430 @LoblollyPine73 @Eric_Conn Again, it appears that 1Ti 2:11-12 and 1Co 14:34-35 were mistaken passages from quite early on. Just because the majority got these wrong doesn't mean they were inspired in their interpretation and ap...

@avyargo @Rick07200430 @LoblollyPine73 @Eric_Conn Again, it appears that 1Ti 2:11-12 and 1Co 14:34-35 were mistaken passages from quite early on. Just because the majority got these wrong doesn't mean

1Co 14:34-35 1Ti 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-09

@revjeffvox @JollyStine @ScottCross_8 @Sean_M_Dennis @DrSampler @andreacavie @RevChrisDavis This is a clear misapplication of the context of Paul’s letter. He is not teaching that all women are not to teach men, but that a specific woman—who is teach...

@revjeffvox @JollyStine @ScottCross_8 @Sean_M_Dennis @DrSampler @andreacavie @RevChrisDavis This is a clear misapplication of the context of Paul’s letter. He is not teaching that all women are not to

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