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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 2024-06-19

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 2023-03-10

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 2020-06-02

The Giving Part 2: Judas the Betrayer, a Balanced View of the Sovereignty of God

[Music] the giving is a balanced view of the sovereignty of God God's sovereignty is vitally important for us to know God yet it's God's sovereignty taught as a system of theological thought which can lead to a person reading into the biblical text an outside concept that is foreign to the writers i...

Luke 22:18 Luke 22:21 Luke 22:3 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement
Scripture Commentary article 2017-12-08

What comes before the Giving? James White and John 6:37

What comes before the giving in John 6:37? Nothing according to Dr. James White on his October 23, 2017 podcast of the Dividing Line Program (segment starts at 1 hr 2 min 30 second mark).

1 Peter 3:15 Acts 10:1 Acts 16:14 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
Scripture Commentary article 2017-01-29

Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture

J. Ed Komoszewski — Kindle highlights from '>-'. 18 highlights.

Biblical Authority Christology Apologetics
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 2013-01-08

The Son of Man WILL give you – John 6:27

The verse that is the most ignored by Calvinists in their own proof text is John 6:27, and within the verse, in particular, a specific phrase.

John 6:26 John 6:27 John 6:28 Soteriology Calvinism John 6
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 2009-11-10

Comp View Of 1Cor11 Mark

This post is a first. I have never before taken the writing of a complementarian and posted it on my blog

1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:13-16 1 Corinthians 11:16 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-09-30

Neopatriarch Once Again Fails To Refute Cheryl Schatz

## Challenging my position that 1 Timothy 2:15 is a single woman

1 Timothy 2:10 1 Timothy 2:11 1 Timothy 2:11-12 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2009-09-19

Evaluating Schatz Seaver Debate

On July 27th, 2009 Mike Seaver and I started a ten session debate on Women in Ministry where I was able to ask Mike questions on his position, he answered my questions and then we each had one response. Mike is still considering whether he will continue with another ten sessions where Mike will ask

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 1 Peter 4:10 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Corinthians 14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
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 article 2009-07-04

Wayne Grudems An Open Letter To Egalitarians

In 1998 Wayne Grudem wrote “An Open Letter to Egalitarians,” and in the letter, he gave six questions that he said have never been satisfactorily answered

Isaiah 1 Philippians 2:7 Headship & Kephale Women in Leadership Trinity
Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-01

Pulpit Authority

In my last post called 1 Timothy 2, authority and the magical pulpit , I was waiting for someone to bring up Hebrew 13:17. Since no one brought up this verse in the comments, but I did receive an email that asked me to respond to how this scripture fits in with my last post, I thought my response sh

Acts 14:19 Acts 18:4 Hebrews 13:17 1 Timothy 2 Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-28

Semi Egalitarians

USA Today has an editorial written by David P Gushee in which Mr. Gushee challenges complementarians that they are actually semi-egalitarians and they should be willing to openly acknowledge this

Isaiah 5 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-06

Public Statement Regarding Matt Slick

Public Statement regarding the Cheryl Schatz initiated Matthew 18 meeting with Matt Slick (CARM)

1 Peter 4:10 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:15 1 Timothy 2 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership
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 2008-01-04

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 tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC First you must establish that I am g

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC First you must establish that I am going against the clear teaching of scripture. The clear teaching is that those teaching heresy should stop. My motive i

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@jeanlucjocund The thing is that Paul said his concern was not who was preaching

@jeanlucjocund The thing is that Paul said his concern was not who was preaching or even if their motives were pure but that the message was preached. How then could he say that in the church he won’t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 No, that’s not how this works. You cannot assess my motives based on

@Paula_333 No, that’s not how this works. You cannot assess my motives based on what you see. That is not judging rightly because you cannot see inside me. You don’t have access to my mind. Only I and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 You don’t know my motives and you are not God, so I suggest to stick

@Paula_333 You don’t know my motives and you are not God, so I suggest to stick with facts that you can easily discern. Let’s talk about ‘plain meaning’, shall we? Because whatever that means it cann

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-24

@LoriAnnArt @ScottRoberts Those that "love to hate"? I'm just showing what the s

@LoriAnnArt @ScottRoberts Those that "love to hate"? I'm just showing what the scripture teaches. Why presume my motives are hate?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I have no argument with Paul (see below). My argume

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I have no argument with Paul (see below). My argument is with you, your condemning unseen motives and your calling me to repent of something that is not a sin. https://t.c

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii No I am not. You have no right to judge my inner motives as no one knows them except myself and God and those to whom either reveals them. A chronological order of creation does not confer authority of the earlier over t...

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii No I am not. You have no right to judge my inner motives as no one knows them except myself and God and those to whom either reveals them. A chronological order of creati

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God doesn't forbid. We need those differences for a tru...

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-04

@NathanCTrilogue @avyargo Refuting false teaching is not stirring up division! T

@NathanCTrilogue @avyargo Refuting false teaching is not stirring up division! Treating a brother like he isn’t a Christian, blocking him for critiquing you, making false allegations about my motives—

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-29

@DustyMayT @CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii @copper_teal Whether he was lying or his i

@DustyMayT @CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii @copper_teal Whether he was lying or his intentions is not the primary concern. Do you know his inner motives? The false teaching is the concern and his clear la

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-29

@CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii @copper_teal No one can ever know the details of some

@CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii @copper_teal No one can ever know the details of someone’s heart motives. However, not teaching it again is a significant detail often overlooked.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-02

@kelcy_lowry @MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ You have not once “contended” with me. You only say I’m wrong and comment on my character and motives. Maybe if you actually contended with me we would get somewhere? Ah, but you are not allowed...

@kelcy_lowry @MrRoyMcAvoy @The_Wry_Griot @JonnyRoot_ You have not once “contended” with me. You only say I’m wrong and comment on my character and motives. Maybe if you actually contended with me we

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-21

@kelcy_lowry @Mimi_CBE I see. So you know my motives and you know my upbringing

@kelcy_lowry @Mimi_CBE I see. So you know my motives and you know my upbringing? How is that? Not even my wife knows my motives unless I tell her. So how is it that you know them? 🤔

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-12

@InnovationHQ2 @punkrockproseco @ADRoblesMedia The church is the only one who judges between the worship of God or not, even then, Christians don't judge the heart or motives of other professing believers. The state is not to act like the church. I...

@InnovationHQ2 @punkrockproseco @ADRoblesMedia The church is the only one who judges between the worship of God or not, even then, Christians don't judge the heart or motives of other professing belie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@bezalelplace @Deigratia1985 @ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 Those are certainly good questions! I even have to remind my wife that the only ones that know my motives are God, myself and those whom I reveal them to. We should always assume pure motives ...

@bezalelplace @Deigratia1985 @ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 Those are certainly good questions! I even have to remind my wife that the only ones that know my motives are God, myself and those whom I reve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@smashbaals Impugning motives is not really what we ought to be doing. Do you h

@smashbaals Impugning motives is not really what we ought to be doing. Do you have a problem with her qualifications? Or is it just your interpretation of 1 Tim 2:12? If the latter, see below.👇 htt

1 Tim 2:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-06

@40tons70mph @Brian_Sauve @CovenantReform2 You cannot speak to my motives or why I’m convinced scripture teaches egalitarian treatment of women within the church. I have no problem saying no to women. I can also say no to men. The qualifications a...

@40tons70mph @Brian_Sauve @CovenantReform2 You cannot speak to my motives or why I’m convinced scripture teaches egalitarian treatment of women within the church. I have no problem saying no to women

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-24

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian. I don’t do use emotive language and feelings.

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian. I don’t do use emotive language and feelings. Just the cold hard facts.

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Theology verse entry

1 Timothy 2:11-15

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Timothy 2:11-15 specific woman,deception,authenteo,grammar,perfect tense,future tense,anaphoric,egalitarian,ephesus,teknogonia,singular plural,historical perfect,verbal aspect,paul as pattern
Theology verse entry

1 Timothy 1:3-5

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

1 Timothy 1:3-5 false teaching Ephesus strange doctrines
Theology verse entry

1 Timothy 1:13-16

Sections: cross_references, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Timothy 1:13-16 mercy,ignorance,pattern,hybristEs,paul,blasphemer,persecutor,violent aggressor,deception,egalitarian,restoration
Theology verse entry

Philippians 1:15-18

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Philippians 1:15-18 teaching,motive,truth,preaching,paul,egalitarian,complementarian
Theology verse entry

Genesis 3:1-7

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Genesis 3:1-7 temptation,fall,serpent,deception,sin,silence of adam
Theology verse entry

1 Corinthians 14:33-37

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Corinthians 14:33-37 interpolation,textual criticism,silence,quotation,Western text,women speaking,women silent,Corinthian quotation,oral law,Pharisees,rhetorical refutation,eta particle,women in ministry,egalitarian,complementarian debate
Theology verse entry

John 6:27

Sections: debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

John 6:27 soteriology,giving,future promise,bread of life,Calvinism,provisionism
Theology verse entry

John 3:16

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

John 3:16 soteriology,atonement,unlimited atonement,Calvinism,kosmos,God's love,scope of atonement
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 8:28-30

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Romans 8:28-30 golden chain,foreknowledge,predestination,calling,justification,glorification,soteriology,Calvinist proof text
Theology greek term

προορίζω (proorizō)

to predestine, to foreordain, to determine beforehand

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Mike Winger idea 2022-08-15

Biblical reasons for slave obedience: purely situational, not creation-grounded

Mike examines what the NT actually says about why slaves should obey.

Ephesians 6:5-8 Titus 2:9-10 Ephesians 6:5-8 Titus 2:9-10 slavery not creation-grounded
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