Search — Theology Explorer

Filter results by source database — Scripture Commentary, Theology, Mike Winger, or Pulpit. Click a tab to narrow to one database.

...more

All (177) Scripture Commentary (110) Theology (7) Mike Winger (60)

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 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 2022-11-25

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

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

1 Chronicles 29:6 1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Corinthians 15:32 Women in Leadership 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 2018-03-22

Was the death of Jesus evil? Calvinism and ordained evil

This question is often asked of those of us who do not believe that God initiates evil. If God predestined the death of Jesus, does this mean that God commanded or ordained the evil acts of men? A Calvinist website describes God’s ordaining of evil this way:

2 Corinthians 5:21 Acts 4:27-28 Acts 5:27–30 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement

Scripture Commentary article 2012-02-07

Masculine Christianity

This is part 2 of What God intended at creation and it is inspired by a recent lecture given by John Piper where he states that God’s intention for Christianity is for it to have a “ masculine feel “. After discussing John Piper’s Masculine Christianity, I will give my critique of his masculine argu

1 Corinthians 2:1 1 Timothy 2:12 2 Kings 22:3 Ephesians 5 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation

Scripture Commentary article 2009-07-24

Jimmy Carter Leaves Sbc

## What made Jimmy Carter leave the SBC

1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-10

Is Pastor One Of The Spiritual Gifts

While some people consider a “Pastor” to be an office, scripture lists “Pastor” as a spiritual gift in Ephesians 4:8-11

Acts 18:25 Ephesians 4:11 Ephesians 4:8 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-27

@jayrugman @BotanicalGalaxy I heard from a bishop that description of how one go

@jayrugman @BotanicalGalaxy I heard from a bishop that description of how one goes from their eternal intelligence to spirit children as reorganizing. I didn’t make that up.

Obedience is not a secondary issue

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

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

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Apostles

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

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

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

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

Was the death of Jesus evil? Calvinism and ordained evil

Masculine Christianity

Jimmy Carter Leaves Sbc

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

Is Pastor One Of The Spiritual Gifts

@jayrugman @BotanicalGalaxy I heard from a bishop that description of how one go

@Dlionsfan55 @BishopJaxi I meant Jesus is not in that wafer.

@BishopJaxi …who is not in that wafer in the monstrance.

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi None of that was taught by the Apostles and it is the

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi The early church certainly used the LXX, which contained both canonical and non-canonical Jewish writings, but using a text in worship or instruction didn’t automatically mean it was considered Scripture. Even Jewish commun...

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi Regional councils were influential, but not universally binding. Their authority extended only to their regions, not to the entire Church. The councils of Hippo and Carthage reflected the North African tradition, while the ...

@OlarJL @BishopJaxi No council ever promulgated a 66 book canon. The early church recognized the same 27 books of the NT we have today, but the OT canon was never dogmatically fixed until the Council of Trent in 1546, which added the deuterocanonical...

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi Catholic means universal. Roman Catholic, the one that

@ServusDeiVivi @BishopJaxi It’s true that regional councils such as Hippo (393 AD) and Carthage (397, 419 AD) affirmed a list of 73 books, matching what later became the Roman Catholic canon. But these were regional councils, not ecumenical ones. The...

@AntiWokeEvil @BishopJaxi The Council of Rome in 382 AD did not create the NT canon! It simply recognized what the Christian churches had already been using for centuries. The idea that the Catholic Church at Rome compiled the canon at that point is...

@BishopJaxi @jimexploring Was jesting since anyone knows almost every opinion is

@BishopJaxi I would never do that. If you want to pray to Mary and kiss her feet

@BishopJaxi @jimexploring All of them? The scribes that kept the scriptures.

@jimexploring @BishopJaxi What do you mean?

@jimexploring @BishopJaxi And all of these compilations differ in several books.

@BishopJaxi I said the canon and without error and complete before the Roman Cat

@BishopJaxi If your argument is that early codices determine the canon, then you’ll need to be consistent: - Codex Sinaiticus includes The Shepherd of Hermas and The Epistle of Barnabas. - Codex Alexandrinus adds Psalm 151 and 1–4 Maccabees. - Codex ...

@BishopJaxi You’re conflating manuscripts with canon. The codices (Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, etc) are early collections, not authoritative lists. They include disputed writings (Barnabas, Shepherd of Hermas, Psalm 151), showing usage, not definition. F...

@BishopJaxi @Nazzer_2016 And it didn’t even take an hour… https://t.co/Yw5oWhYLE

@BishopJaxi That’s not my argument. No complete Bible before the 15th century had exactly 66 books, but that’s because no bound Bible of any kind existed in a single, standardized volume yet. And the canon wasn’t invented later; it was affirmed from ...

@BishopJaxi It was without error and complete before the Roman Catholic Church a

@BaptistClips A bishop/elder has to be married with kids? So Paul himself was di

@WayneVinson5 @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi Exactly! And also that the body of Ch

@SocietyOfStChad @WayneVinson5 @BishopJaxi Are you suggesting that ‘being answerable to the body and blood of Christ’ means those who eat in an unworthy manner are responsible for killing Jesus? 🤔 BTW, notice that it is about the manner in which one...

@SocietyOfStChad @RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @BishopJaxi Eusebius disputed James, Jude, 2 Peter, 2–3 John, Revelation (he personally doubted Revelation). Even Luther disputed James, Jude, Hebrews and Revelation. That people kept disputing certain b...

@SocietyOfStChad @RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @BishopJaxi They knew what was scri

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi That’s not necessary since the letters from the apostles and gospels were written in the first century. Just because a group made an official determination as to what the mainstream already kne...

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi We have the New Testame

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The one in Acts and the corrections and details offered in the Epistles. Remember how Paul said: “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; a...

@RayAwesomer @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi The only early church t

@SocietyOfStChad @BertinMbokish @BishopJaxi Ok, I stand corrected. The Eastern O

@XiRuZhaJi @BishopJaxi Yes, I know this. But Jesus was speaking metaphorically.

@DanielT46640724 @BishopJaxi It means that the Father prepared a body for Jesus:

@DanielT46640724 @BishopJaxi Well, the fact is that the church is the body of Christ, not a wafer (properly bread that is broken) which is symbolic of his body broken for us. We eat in remembrance of Him, not to have Him inside us. He doesn’t leave u...

@DanielT46640724 @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi Drinking the blood of a human or animal was expressly forbidden in the law. “It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat nor any ...

@DanielT46640724 @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi Jesus is not bread just like He is not a door. The Levitical priesthood does not continue into the NT church. Fulfilling the law doesn’t mean that the sacrificial system continues. It sto...

@DanielT46640724 @BertinMbokish @SocietyOfStChad @BishopJaxi Yes, Jesus says “this is my body” but He also said “I am the door” (Jn 10:7). We are supposed to be able to understand from the context that He is speaking metaphorically. And yes, you are...

Bible Link Settings