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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 2023-01-19

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: The Head Covering Debates (1 Cor 11)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 10 on the head covering debates in 1 Corinthians 11

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2023-01-17

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Male Headship: Is It Really Biblical?

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 8 on male headship and whether it is really biblical

1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2009-08-19

Mike Seaver And Cheryl Schatz Debate 6

In the last blog post Cheryl Schatz posed her third set of questions to Mike Seaver regarding their debate on women in ministry. Links to all the previous questions and responses is at the end of this post

1 Timothy 2:12 Exodus 1 Psalms 68:11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-08

@RobertMacD0nald @purebredslappy Aren’t you trying to force hierarchy on people

@RobertMacD0nald @purebredslappy Aren’t you trying to force hierarchy on people when God didn’t authorize it? Your expectations are trained to think that hierarchy and authority structures are Biblic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-23

Instead of preserving the truth, it creates a parallel authority structure that

Instead of preserving the truth, it creates a parallel authority structure that can override Scripture. And this leads many sincere people to trust in a system rather than in Christ alone. This is w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-28

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace The bridge doesn't contain hierarchy or authority

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace The bridge doesn't contain hierarchy or authority structures, and given v22 borrows the verb "submit" from v21, whatever follows must be consistent with mutuality. +

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-30

@coramdeo1 Comps are speculating that creation order is about hierarchy and authority. What evidence is there that authority structures are present between the man and the woman in Gen 2-3? You claim that the serpent violates the order by approachi...

@coramdeo1 Comps are speculating that creation order is about hierarchy and authority. What evidence is there that authority structures are present between the man and the woman in Gen 2-3? You clai

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-24

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Paul is identifying two things: the time order of the cre

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Paul is identifying two things: the time order of the creation of Adam and Eve and that this was why Adam wasn’t deceived but Eve was. Whatever teaching you are inferring about

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@SolaChristus7 @johnmarkallen @haymes_joshua "ALL Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work...

@SolaChristus7 @johnmarkallen @haymes_joshua "ALL Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God

2Ti 3:16-17 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-09

@Ichthusproject @JollyStine @will_servant @pastherandie @Crystalisives @CherylSc

@Ichthusproject @JollyStine @will_servant @pastherandie @Crystalisives @CherylSchatz @jdpritchett @MikeWingerii Are you referring to gender hierarchy and authority structures? If so, I agree!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-05

@InterwebsLurker @MikeWingerii There’s neither the term nor the concept of gende

@InterwebsLurker @MikeWingerii There’s neither the term nor the concept of gender roles or authority structures taught in the New Testament.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-03

Mike says, “It is interesting that the New Testament doesn’t give us clear polic

Mike says, “It is interesting that the New Testament doesn’t give us clear policies (ie. on when women can’t speak)” [3:47:50] Indeed. Does it not occur that it might be b/c there is no gender author

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-23

@BlackSheepPickl @MikeWingerii Titus 2:5 does say wives are to hypotasso their husbands. I didn’t say that wives are not to do this, only that Eph 5:21 says all are to do this to one another showing that it’s not a gendered hierarchical authority str...

@BlackSheepPickl @MikeWingerii Titus 2:5 does say wives are to hypotasso their husbands. I didn’t say that wives are not to do this, only that Eph 5:21 says all are to do this to one another showing t

Eph 5:21 Titus 2:5 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-23

This is what makes you a good complementarian, Mike. 😊 Imagine if you’d recogni

This is what makes you a good complementarian, Mike. 😊 Imagine if you’d recognize that the command to submit was actually given in v21?—everyone submitting to each other. Whatever Paul means, it’s n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-04

RT @ryanschatz: @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals There is this idea that God places a

RT @ryanschatz: @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals There is this idea that God places authority structures in the home and church, but that’s not…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-04

@VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals There is this idea that God places authority structures in the home and church, but that’s not at all what He is doing. Leadership does not imply authority. Authority is in the Word, not the person. Leadership is carryi...

@VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals There is this idea that God places authority structures in the home and church, but that’s not at all what He is doing. Leadership does not imply authority. Authority is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-24

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul, I think that’s the first time someone said that I’m deeply impacted by Marxist ideologies! I’m a bit concerned that if I didn’t answer this you would somehow conclude I’m a Marxist… 🧐 The authority structures that God has ...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul, I think that’s the first time someone said that I’m deeply impacted by Marxist ideologies! I’m a bit concerned that if I didn’t answer this you would somehow conclude I’m a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wives submitting to their husbands is in the context of the

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wives submitting to their husbands is in the context of the body submitting one to another, leaders to congregants included. Submitting is not about authority structures but an at

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-22

@harmonizedgrace Depends on what you mean by "fundamental" as the biology is fundamental in every cell (XY vs XX chromosomes), but men and women are equally able to lead as they are both rulers. There was no hierarchy or authority structures created...

@harmonizedgrace Depends on what you mean by "fundamental" as the biology is fundamental in every cell (XY vs XX chromosomes), but men and women are equally able to lead as they are both rulers. Ther

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii That is precisely what the egalitarian view is.

@justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii That is precisely what the egalitarian view is. That there are no gender based hierarchy or authority structures promoted in the Bible for families and churches.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@MikeWingerii As an egalitarian, I agree with points #1-4. I take issue with #5 because it says there is an inherent hierarchy and authority structure between the husband and wife and between males and females in the church. That said, if you do a ...

@MikeWingerii As an egalitarian, I agree with points #1-4. I take issue with #5 because it says there is an inherent hierarchy and authority structure between the husband and wife and between males a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-12

@ymmotrojam @brmorris @CherylSchatz Paul is showing source relationships in 1 Co

@ymmotrojam @brmorris @CherylSchatz Paul is showing source relationships in 1 Cor 11, not hierarchical authority structures. He is explaining the reasons for the traditions they are following which a

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Scripture Commentary debate point

Eph 5:22 instructs wives to submit to husbands, implying a hierarchical authority structure in marriage.

[complementarian_objection] From: Eph 5:22 and Mutual Submission

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