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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-08

@LostMyHats You confuse categories that the Bible keeps distinct. Dispensationalists don’t deny that believing Gentiles are grafted into Abraham’s blessings; Paul teaches that plainly (Ro 4:11-17; Gal 3:7-9, 29). What we do deny is that this spiritua...

@LostMyHats You confuse categories that the Bible keeps distinct. Dispensationalists don’t deny that believing Gentiles are grafted into Abraham’s blessings; Paul teaches that plainly (Ro 4:11-17; Gal

Gal 3:7-9 Ro 4:11-17 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-28

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast So again, believers in Christ are one body, Jew and Gentile alike (Eph 2:14–16; Gal 3:28). There is no second way of salvation—only through Christ. The church is not outside God’s promises but grafted into the...

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast So again, believers in Christ are one body, Jew and Gentile alike (Eph 2:14–16; Gal 3:28). There is no second way of salvation—only through Christ. The church

Eph 2:14 Gal 3:28 Ro 11:17 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-17

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals Second, the immediate context: In Ro 11:1

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals Second, the immediate context: In Ro 11:17, Paul says some (τινες, tines) branches (Jews) were “broken off” due to unbelief. Then he addresses the individual Ge

Ro 11:17 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-11-27

@ymmotrojam Yes, there are those who are false. But the scripture is clear that

@ymmotrojam Yes, there are those who are false. But the scripture is clear that one can be in, then cut off because of unbelief, but then grafted in again. https://t.co/FYvR2DUE8S

debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-27

@JimBrandyberry The root of Christianity is Jewish. A Jewish Messiah. Jewish apo

@JimBrandyberry The root of Christianity is Jewish. A Jewish Messiah. Jewish apostles. Gentiles are grafted in by faith to the one root.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-20

@MichaelBerg888 This assumes that He didn’t have other reasons for choosing only male apostles in the original 12. Just as God originally chose the Jews, we as Gentiles are now grafted into one. I argue that in the same way God has broken down the ...

@MichaelBerg888 This assumes that He didn’t have other reasons for choosing only male apostles in the original 12. Just as God originally chose the Jews, we as Gentiles are now grafted into one. I a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-14

@GregThornberg This is the Apostle Paul's response to those who are "arrogant towards the [natural] branches": “But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the...

@GregThornberg This is the Apostle Paul's response to those who are "arrogant towards the [natural] branches": “But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted

debate

Theology verse entry

Ephesians 1:4-5

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Ephesians 1:4-5 soteriology,predestination,election,free will,Calvinism,provisionism,corporate election

Theology verse entry

Romans 11:25-36

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Romans 11:25-36 Israel,olive tree,hardening,mercy to all,election,doxology,soteriology

Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

The New Testament is a Jewish book written by Jews about the Jewish Messiah

Mike contextualizes the gospel for Ben as a Jewish person

Romans 11 Torah Tanakh Nevi'im

Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Christianity is a Jewish religion; Gentiles are grafted in — not the other way around

Mike speaks directly to the Jewish identity of Christianity

Romans 11 Messianic Judaism grafted in Romans 11

Mike Winger idea 2019-01-30

Colossians recommended as a direct scriptural answer to questions about Sabbath and the fourth commandment for Gentiles

Q&A: questioner asks how Gentiles grafted into the vine should handle the fourth commandment (Sabbath).

Colossians Colossians 2:16-17 Colossians Colossians 2:16-17 Gentile believers

Mike Winger idea 2021-03-05

Claiming all biblical promises because "God is no respecter of persons" is invalid reasoning

Responding to the claim that Christians can claim all biblical promises because God is no respecter of persons or because they are grafted into Israel

hermeneutics covenant claiming biblical promises