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Scripture Commentary article 2026-03-27

Eph 5:22 and Mutual Submission

The mutual and reciprocal nature of hypotasso in Eph 5:21 makes a hierarchical reading of v22 semantically incoherent. Paul cannot establish one-to-another voluntary submission and then immediately mean one-directional hierarchy without breaking the logic of his own passage.

Eph 5:21 Eph 5:22 Eph 5:23 Ephesians 5 Headship & Kephale
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 2023-03-14

A 14-Point Biblical Case for Women Leaders and Teachers And Why Mike Winger, The Gospel Coalition, and the Southern Baptists Are Wrong About This

A 14-point biblical case for women leaders and teachers, responding to Mike Winger, The Gospel Coalition, and the Southern Baptists

1 Cor 12:21-24 1 Cor 14:26 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 Women in Leadership Complementarianism 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 2022-11-24

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 2017-06-07

Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free? Parts 1-2: The Designer Knows Best

[Music] oh [Music] Lord why would you give me gifts that you don't allow me to use in the church just because I'm a woman why does the bible always use the term man am I important to God [Music] too why do you love boys more than girls why am I told that I can't lead in public prayer why are there s...

1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Timothy 2:13 2 Timothy 3:16 Genesis & Creation 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 2010-05-23

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 2010-04-14

T4G Comp Tied To Gospel

The 2010 Together for the Gospel conference is on right now as I write this article. The conference this year is called The Unadjusted Gospel and according to J

Colossians 14:34-35 Ephesians 4:2 Exodus 1 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-10-02

Recovering From Feminism Recovery

Wade Burleson has written an exceptionally thought-provoking post on the difference between one young woman’s journey through her pain (it appears to be a rejection of herself by a boyfriend) into the pathway of accepting a tradition that gives authoritarian license to males vs one young slave woman

Authority & Submission Women in Leadership Complementarianism
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 2007-11-03

Mary As Gods Kind Of Woman

In conjunction with my new series on marriage started with my previous post and the question of whether a wife is to have a man take authority over her (as if her husband is required to rule her), click here to read an excellent blog article about the best example of a New Testament “God’s kind of w

Authority & Submission Women in Leadership Complementarianism
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 2025-08-09

@McMuffin11111 @SearlJk47427 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Not so. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines, not to stop anyone from teaching truth to anyone. Also, where is authentein used positively of...

@McMuffin11111 @SearlJk47427 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Not so. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines, not to stop anyone from teaching truth to any

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA You may also wish to consider Belleville’s excellent work on authentein leaning towards my interpretation. The forbidden fruit brought death. This wasn’t about usurping male authority as Paul doe...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA You may also wish to consider Belleville’s excellent work on authentein leaning towards my interpretation. The forbidden fruit brought death. Thi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-14

@AechDeePixel My suspicion is the weight of almost 1M followers and given his vi

@AechDeePixel My suspicion is the weight of almost 1M followers and given his views about male authority, I think he feels obliged to throw around his clout to take down some big dogs.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage People criticize egalitarians for claiming that it’s about Christian women following the Artemis cult when Paul’s words suggest it’s about genealogies and what sounds like Jewish myths. And the idea of usurping mal...

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage People criticize egalitarians for claiming that it’s about Christian women following the Artemis cult when Paul’s words suggest it’s about genealogies and what soun

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@carol66944 @MikeWingerii I agree that scripture is not teaching male authority.

@carol66944 @MikeWingerii I agree that scripture is not teaching male authority. But kephale is there and it does say that the husband is the kephale of his wife. That has nothing to do with social th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-29

@Moppybottoms @KaeleyT The short answer is any role where a woman is in a position of authority over a man. Many believe Gen 2-3 establishes male authority and female submission, 1Co 14:34-35 commands women to respect that authority by remaining sil...

@Moppybottoms @KaeleyT The short answer is any role where a woman is in a position of authority over a man. Many believe Gen 2-3 establishes male authority and female submission, 1Co 14:34-35 command

1Co 14:34-35 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-27

@carol66944 @pushforgorilla @subq @harmonizedgrace Israel isn’t mentioned there.

@carol66944 @pushforgorilla @subq @harmonizedgrace Israel isn’t mentioned there. All God said in Ge 3:15 is the seed of the woman. The solution to the problem should come from the man if this is about

Ge 3:15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@Tailfeathers_WA @GwenSci @dalepartridge So you admit God installed Deborah as a judge then? You just feel that it was to insult the Canaanites and Israel? Your claim that God had ordained male authority—even in the OT—is clearly wrong. Otherwise, G...

@Tailfeathers_WA @GwenSci @dalepartridge So you admit God installed Deborah as a judge then? You just feel that it was to insult the Canaanites and Israel? Your claim that God had ordained male autho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-03

@ChristianJComis @drcholakov Male headship meaning male authority is a foreign i

@ChristianJComis @drcholakov Male headship meaning male authority is a foreign idea inserted into the creation account. Both are commanded to rule. Gender roles is a virus to the body of Christ. https

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-04

@bonhoefferchild @avyargo @MikeWingerii Much of the issue is with translators as

@bonhoefferchild @avyargo @MikeWingerii Much of the issue is with translators assuming complementarian ideas and male authority over females (ie. our understanding of head is not what Paul meant in hi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii I didn’t say I was complementarian, I said conservative.

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii I didn’t say I was complementarian, I said conservative. I don’t believe the text teaches male authority over women and I want to conserve the meaning and intent of the text and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-31

@Trentofthenorth @Unashamed_Chuck @JamesDitto12 On what basis do you make such a

@Trentofthenorth @Unashamed_Chuck @JamesDitto12 On what basis do you make such a claim? Male authority over women is an idea imported into the text by men.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii When anyone at that time diverges from the generally accepted view of male authority it should be carefully noted. Cyril’s co...

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii When anyone at that time diverges from the generally accepted view of male

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

@ErikWriter @William_E_Wolfe Are you writing that by your male authority to cont

@ErikWriter @William_E_Wolfe Are you writing that by your male authority to contradict whatever exegesis I give?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

RT @ryanschatz: @Richard89885354 Ok, here's my response to your first "argument"

RT @ryanschatz: @Richard89885354 Ok, here's my response to your first "argument"... 🦴Richard's Argument 1⃣: male authority in the church a…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

@Richard89885354 Ok, here's my response to your first "argument"... 🦴Richard's Argument 1⃣: male authority in the church and headship in marriage is by "Creative design" (1 Tim 2:13; 1 Cor 11:9) 🍗Response (to 1 Tim 2:13): Paul is using Adam and Eve...

@Richard89885354 Ok, here's my response to your first "argument"... 🦴Richard's Argument 1⃣: male authority in the church and headship in marriage is by "Creative design" (1 Tim 2:13; 1 Cor 11:9) 🍗Re

1 Cor 11:9 1 Tim 2:13 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-30

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’m really pleased when I see healthy complementarian churches that let women speak on Sunday mornings and value the gifts and leadership and sacrifice women bring to the church family. If male authority can be rel...

@KaeleyT @pauldirks @DeeGoingsGirl I’m really pleased when I see healthy complementarian churches that let women speak on Sunday mornings and value the gifts and leadership and sacrifice women bring t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-14

John Chrysostom believes women should always wear a veil as a sign that male aut

John Chrysostom believes women should always wear a veil as a sign that male authority is over them. Is Paul promoting male authority over women? https://t.co/SyA5MBd07b

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

RT @ryanschatz: @NateSchlomann For much of history, male authority over their wi

RT @ryanschatz: @NateSchlomann For much of history, male authority over their wives was commonplace. Could we say the same that complement…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@NateSchlomann For much of history, male authority over their wives was commonpl

@NateSchlomann For much of history, male authority over their wives was commonplace. Could we say the same that complementarians were just imbibing from the cultural water tap?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@rightresponsem For much of history, male authority over their wives was commonp

@rightresponsem For much of history, male authority over their wives was commonplace. Could we say the same that complementarians were just imbibing from the cultural water tap?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam @brmorris Egalitarian means shared authority or mutual submission. Complementarian is male authority. Patriarchy is more extreme. Feminism is female authority. Extreme feminism is female priority and authority. So there...

@CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam @brmorris Egalitarian means shared authority or mutual submission. Complementarian is male authority. Patriarchy is more extreme. Feminism is female authority. Extreme fe

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