Where Mike Winger Went Wrong on Women

Comprehensive response to the entire Mike Winger Women in Ministry video series (Parts 1-13)

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

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

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

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

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)

Is Free Will “Another” Gospel?

What is the problem? It is common for Calvinists to argue that humanity can’t have free will because free will would necessitate a salvation based on works. Although the Bible does not make this claim, people have been subject to unfair accusations of heresy by overly zealous Calvinists.

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...

Does Matthew conflict with Luke about Judas?

In my post about Judas and the last supper, Colin Maxwell, a Calvinist responded to my post, although not responding on this blog, but on his twitter account @weeCalvin.

Was John the Baptist predestined to be saved?

In the teaching of Calvinism, there is an election to salvation for some men while the rest of mankind are created without a hope of eternal life. In this understanding God has pre-determined from eternity past that all but the elect would remain in their sin and be lost forever.

Gods Design In Genesis

How is it that there are millions of Christians who all look to the same Genesis account yet find themselves with different and contradictory truth claims from the same account. While many conclude that man was designed in a special way that sets him above the woman with special God-given privileges

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

Spiritual Gifts A Means For Obedience

This is the last in our series about spiritual gifts and here we discover that spiritual gifts are a means for our obedience

@AsherJacob23060 @AlistairMerrym1 Mt 18:15–17 is plainly about a present process of confronting a sinning brother in the church, not end-time events. What in the chapter itself signals a shift to eschatology? The parable (18:21–35) reinforces presen...

@AsherJacob23060 @AlistairMerrym1 Mt 18:15–17 is plainly about a present process of confronting a sinning brother in the church, not end-time events. What in the chapter itself signals a shift to esc

@JosiahHuggins1 @subq You’re treating the meme like it was trying to quote Scripture word-for-word, but it’s a parable. It’s a compressed, satirical illustration to expose the logical flow of Calvinist thought. It wasn’t intended to be a transcript. ...

@JosiahHuggins1 @subq You’re treating the meme like it was trying to quote Scripture word-for-word, but it’s a parable. It’s a compressed, satirical illustration to expose the logical flow of Calvinis

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Ge 2:18 speaks of a helper comparable to him. God is also said to be our helper and that does not mean we are in authority over Him. Ge 3:16 isn’t an imperative and is spoken to Eve (not Adam). It is about...

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Ge 2:18 speaks of a helper comparable to him. God is also said to be our helper and that does not mean we are in authority over Him. Ge 3:16 isn’t an imper

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I got it from Jesus. The idea that all

@terryne02461221 @Vestwitt @HwsEleutheroi I got it from Jesus. The idea that all Bible scholars believe this is a parable is patently false. https://t.co/U8WgoAgACm

1 Peter 3:1-9

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Corinthians 8:6

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Timothy 5:14

Sections: exegesis, greek_analysis

Matthew 25:14-30

Sections: exegesis

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Hebrews 2:9

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Matthew 23:37

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

2 Samuel 14:1-24

Sections: exegesis

κύριος (kyrios)

lord / master / sir

οἰκοδεσποτεῖν (oikodespotein)

to rule the household, to be master of the house

Barr equates complementarianism with abuse — 'you cannot separate the issues' — making the book about stories creating theology rather than understanding scripture in context.

Mistake #5: Critique of Beth Allison Barr's book

Mike's conclusion: no female apostles in the official high-leadership sense

Mike summarizes the positive data section.

Preview of next livestream: How long did Jesus expect it would be until his return? Examining parables and Second Coming teachings

Mike closes the main presentation and previews the follow-up topic.

Closing exhortation: test all end-times claims by whether they come from clear Scripture or from Bible-to-symbol-to-math-formula chains; be ready rather than predict

Mike closes the Q&A and the entire session with a pastoral summary.

Tim Staples' argument: 'you can't separate the person from the works' — and Mike's rebuttal

Engaging a specific Catholic apologist's defense of the 1 Corinthians 3 reading

Q&A — Why didn't God make the Bible's message so clear that everyone interprets it the same way?

Philosophical/theological question about biblical clarity and interpretive diversity

Q&A — Matthew 18:34 ('delivered to the torturers until he pays all') examined as a tertiary purgatory text

Viewer raises a third passage sometimes used for purgatory — the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

Mark 13:28-31 — the fig tree parable and 'this generation' interpreted as the generation that sees the signs

Mike addresses the key contested phrase 'this generation will not pass away.'

Mark 13:32-37 — no one knows the day or hour; the command is perpetual alertness

Mike reconciles the specific sign and generation statement with the 'no one knows' declaration.

Luke 21:29-36 — 'this generation' in Luke: the generation that sees the signs, not the first century

Mike applies the same interpretive logic to the 'this generation' phrase in Luke as in Mark.

Matthew 24-25 parables all emphasize a long delay before the master returns

Mike identifies a pattern in the four consecutive parables following the Olivet Discourse proper.

Kim redefines the Sabbath as a list of behavioral rules for church attendance — show up on time, keep kids quiet, keep church clean, smile — rather than the biblical concept of rest

End of Kim's Sabbath chapter. He gives specific Sabbath rules that are entirely about corporate presentation.

Luke 12:47-48 — The servant who knew his master's will and disobeyed receives a severe beating; the one who did not know receives a light beating. Knowledge and intent factor into the moral weight of a sin.

Mike examines a parable of Jesus about two servants with differing levels of knowledge to show that the same act can be morally worse depending on the actor's awareness.

The single raising-the-dead story in the Life of Apollonius (book 4, ch. 45) is immediately qualified — Philostratus himself says he doesn't know if the woman was really dead (steam rising from her face in the rain suggests she may have been breathing) or if Apollonius actually raised her. This is not comparable to the bodily resurrection of Christ.

John 5:45-47 — if you believed Moses you would believe me: encountering Jesus reveals whether one truly believed Moses

Mike addresses the logical question: what about Ben, who has heard of Jesus but rejected him?

No other religion has a comparative apologetic to Christianity

Mike makes a comparative religion claim after discussing Christian evidential resources.

Evidence for Christianity spans multiple disciplines: Scripture, philosophy, history, science, and personal experience

Mike summarizes the scope of Christian evidential resources before moving to Q&A.

Planned Gospel of Mark series to cover theology, apologetics, and resurrection debates

Response to viewer question about where the Trinity is in Mark

Did Jesus go to hell? Mike does not think he was tortured there; references 1-2 Peter and Jude on descent

Viewer asking whether Jesus went to hell between death and resurrection

Are ghosts real? Mike's view: likely evil spirits, not the spirits of the dead.

Jim McGregor asks whether ghosts are real or evil spirits.

Virtual scholarly consensus on historical facts about Jesus: lived in Palestine, believed special relationship with God, performed astonishing deeds, taught in parables, criticized Jewish leaders, crucified under Pilate

Summarizing the bedrock facts about Jesus accepted by virtually all historians including non-Christians

Red flags for mythicists: fringe scholarly support + primarily internet bloggers = gullibility warning; comparable to moon landing denialism and Holocaust denial

Warning signs that a position may be a conspiracy theory

Q&A: Can a Christian be demon-possessed? Winger argues no, based on Jesus's parable of the unoccupied house

A viewer asks whether Christians can have an unclean spirit/demon, and whether Winger's view implies deliverance ministry is only for unbelievers.