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Co-Author of that Bill Gothard book: https://t.co/3lokJ6AyZ3. Author, Darby, Dualism, & the Decline of Dispensationalism: https://t.co/jjO1dRBX3u
Mar 23 36 tweets 9 min read
🧵When I quoted 1Ti 2:11-12 in the ESV, Wesley (@the_blind_guide) said, “if you look in the lexicons αὐθεντεῖν doesn’t mean ‘to have authority’ it means ‘to dominate’ or ‘domineer’ as in boss around, it does not mean ‘have a position of authority’.”

So, I thought, “Why not?”Image Wesley says, “the problem is not the woman having the position but the means by which she obtains it.” But that’s not supported by either the standard New Testament Greek lexicon (BDAG), the standard Classical Greek lexicon (LSJ), or the more recent BrillDAG for Classical Greek. Image
Mar 11 6 tweets 1 min read
🧵False. The word rendered “homosexuals” in 1Co 6:9 and 1Ti 1:10 (NASB), ἀρσενοκοίτης (arsenkoítēs), is from the Septuagint which renders יִשְׁכַּ֤ב אֶת־זָכָר֙ (yiš·kaḇ ’eṯ-zā·ḵār), “lies with a male,” in Le 20:13 in part as ἄρσενος κοίτην (arsenos koítēn), “male in bed.”Image Since “homosexual” didn’t enter the English language unti 1891, it’s unsurprising we don’t find it in English Bibles until the 20th century. But we find even more graphic terms before that, such as “buggerers” in the 1557 Geneva Bible New Testament.
Feb 26 66 tweets 12 min read
🧵Wherein I reply to someone questioning my honesty for saying that, in Provisionism, God’s love and grace are insufficient reasons for Him to choose (i.e., elect) to save sinners since He also requires something in the sinners (i.e., faith)—with additional notes on definitions.Image Well, @Duke456521, since all my remarks here echo Provisionism’s actual statements, including what’s written in its official statement of faith, “What is Provisionism?” I could just as easily question your honesty, couldn’t I? Image
Feb 16 116 tweets 17 min read
🧵Did Paul Call Andronicus and Junia Apostles in Romans 16:7?

⁷ Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

—Romans 16:7 NIV

What exactly is Paul saying here?Image As far as many social media advocates are concerned, it’s quite obvious that Paul is telling his Roman audience that Andronicus and Junia are not only apostles but outstanding or prominent ones (ἐπίσημος, epísēmos), which raises the question of why we only read about them here.Image
Jan 20 6 tweets 1 min read
Was God’s Election Ever Simply About Choosing a Nation? Image Meanwhile, the same logic that anti-Calvinists try to apply to Paul’s quote from Ge 25:23 also applies his quote from Mal 1:2-3:
Dec 12, 2023 17 tweets 3 min read
🧵 No, no, no! A thousand times, no! 🤦‍♂️Image When Trinitarians say the Son is the “same substance as the Father” (ὁμοούσιον τῷ πατρί, homooúsion tō̃ patrí) we’re saying they’re the same Being, having the same essence—and thus, the same God.
Dec 8, 2023 45 tweets 6 min read
Notes to Self:

(1) According to @Lanier_Greg:

“The Greek New Testament, as edited in the latest Nestle Aland 28 / UBS 5 volumes, consists of the following (rounded):

• 7,940 total verses
• 138,150 total words (by word count)
• 5,420 distinct words”
glanier.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/qua…
Since the NA29 isn’t expected to be out until 2025, I take it these numbers are still good.
Jul 18, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵I’ve received some interesting reactions to my diagram titled “Scriptures in Which πᾶς (pãs: ‘all’) Means ‘Every Kind Of’ or ‘All Sorts Of.’” One person even suggested that what I presented goes against nearly 3 millennia of Greek scholarship! This is a surprising claim. 𝟏/𝟕 https://t.co/UlK7WZGNjWtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image I’m sure it would have come as a surprise to the compilers of the venerable standard LSJM lexicon for Classical Greek, since they found this meaning for πᾶς as far back as Homer (8th century ʙᴄ). 𝟐/𝟕 Image
Jul 13, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Contrary to what @aspin3 argues… https://t.co/uon9k2YYzX
Image @aspin3 And why do you ignore the fact that Paul is not referring to the grace of regeneration but the grace of justification, which I have clearly stated comes after faith? First regeneration, then faith, then justification. Ro 5:1-2 isn’t dealing with regeneration but justification.
Jul 7, 2023 9 tweets 6 min read
On the Idolatry of Libertarian Free Will: A Response to @Soteriology101

Leighton, it’s hard to overstate how astonishing your tweets are here. But given that you hold an anthropology that assigns to man’s will an attribute belonging only to God, I shouldn’t be surprised. 1/9 https://t.co/cS05fu0XS5twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Soteriology101 To even suggest that believers have libertarian free will (LFW) simply because God provides a way of escape from temptation calls into question your understanding of that term means.

The precious truth of 1Co 10:13 doesn’t have anything remotely to do with the spurious and… https://t.co/PzpBhC7HYJtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jul 3, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
🧵On Saturday, @Soteriology101 asked me to list “the top three” places in Scripture where I claim “we find the teaching of nature-changing regeneration causing faith.” He also said, “if they actually mention the words ‘nature, regeneration or faith’ that would be great.”

𝟏/𝟗 I told him I hoped to be able to fulfill this request today, and that I trusted “top three” did not represent a limit. Plus, I decided to do more than just list them. Hence this thread.

Note: since (a) biblical language is much more flexible than the theological jargon…

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Jun 22, 2023 8 tweets 5 min read
🧵 So, people have been claiming that @bethallisonbarr has provided “receipts” for her narrative that for the past few months she’s expressed “concern” over Mike Law’s list. Has anyone checked those receipts? Perhaps we should.

cc: @megbasham @tomascol @TomBuck @RodDMartin @bethallisonbarr @megbasham @tomascol @TomBuck @RodDMartin On June 20, Barr says she “didn’t actually look at the list,” but she obviously (a) knew that there was a list, (b) knew that it identified women pastors in the SBC, and (c) raised no ethical concerns about its existence.

On March 24, she said the list gave her hope. She… https://t.co/NN6Pz4UZPDtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Aug 31, 2022 17 tweets 4 min read
🧵: This is a follow-up from my recent Leighton Flowers meme quotetweet. I understand why some make this argument regarding the question of whether “all” always means absolutely 𝑎𝑙𝑙 in Scripture, so I thought it worthy of an extended response (here & in the original thread). Well sure, God doesn’t exaggerate. Agreed. You make an excellent point. But since God inspired Scripture, what did 𝐻𝑒 mean when He inspired Paul to say, “I have suffered the loss of 𝑎𝑙𝑙 [Greek: 𝑝𝑎̃𝑠 (πᾶς)] things,” (Phil 3:8)? Paul wrote this under the…𝟏/𝟏𝟔
Aug 26, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
Jon D Payne (@gospelrefnet): “Now, I have had interaction with Greg Johnson [@PcaMemorial] and I sincerely with all of my heart want the best for Greg Johnson. I want him to recognize that Revoice [@revoiceus] is off the rails in its speakers, in… 𝟏/𝟗
“…its emphases, in its heterodoxy as it concerns the gospel, as it concerns human sexuality, and I have encouraged him to remove himself from this ministry, and that that would begin some healing of some kind as it regards all of the controversy that’s happened in the… 𝟐/𝟗
Apr 29, 2022 8 tweets 8 min read
𝟏) Rosaria Butterfield: “You know, one of the most awful, awful, awful…extra terminology from the Revoice movement is this idea of mixed-orientation marriage. The first time Nate Collins met me at a conference and he asked me what it’s like to be in a…
𝟐) “…mixed-orientation marriage, if I’d had a brick in my hand I would have probably thrown it at him. That’s just because I love him as a sister—and I really do mean this. Like, that is a vile thing to say about my marriage or about anyone’s marriage.…”

@zoeschimke: “It’s…
Apr 28, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
𝟏) “Bavinck locates the origin of marital and familial disintegration not in the state, nor society, which precedes the state, but in the entrance of sin into humanity in the Fall in Genesis 3. Thus, at base, it is always primarily sin and the curse that must be… overcome in… 𝟐) “…the fight for the family, including strained relations between man and woman. Susan Foh’s interpretation2 of Genesis 3:16-17—that woman’s desire for her husband in God’s curse is subversive—has been dismissed as a recent idiosyncrasy, but those who do should reckon with…
Mar 23, 2022 13 tweets 11 min read
𝟏) An open tweet thread to @timkellernyc from a PCA RE.

Dear brother Tim,

You wrote:

“First, as far as I know, there is not one PCA court — not one session, presbytery, or agency — that has ever endorsed Side B Christianity.”

byfaithonline.com/whats-happenin… 𝟐) As with all your main points, you put this in bold text, so I assume you think its’s a strong one. But with all due respect, brother, while this may be true in a formal sense, in that none of the bodies you cited have issued an official endorsement, I think it’s obviously…
Sep 24, 2021 16 tweets 6 min read
𝟏/𝟏𝟔 Yes, in the strictest & narrowest sense, William Lane Craig doesn’t deny the historical 𝐴𝑑𝑎𝑚, but he does deny the ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝒐𝒇 Adam. While technically affirming Adam’s historicity, he denies that the record we have in Gen 1-3 is historical, presenting to us… 𝟐/𝟏𝟔 …instead an Adam who is somehow theologically “true” while everything we thought we knew about him based on the biblical text is false. If “The accounts of the origin and Fall of man are clearly metaphorical or figurative in nature” as WLC says, then in what sense & on…
Sep 22, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
😲William Lane Craig writes:

“Myths exhibit fantastic elements and are not troubled by logical contradiction or ­incoherence.…The primaeval history of Genesis 1–11, including the stories of Adam and Eve, functions as Israel’s foundational myth…
firstthings.com/article/2021/1… “…In terms of genre, Genesis 1–11 has key characteristics of myth.…If Genesis 1–11 functions as mytho-history, then these chapters need not be read literally. The accounts of the origin and Fall of man are clearly metaphorical or figurative in nature, featuring as they do an…
Jul 19, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
𝟏/𝟏𝟐 It seems to me that we have the perfect biblical example of what we should do when people misunderstand what we’re trying to communicate. This same thing happened to the Apostle Paul & he set the matter straight in 1 Corinthians 5:9-11. 𝟐/𝟏𝟐 Paul wrote:

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—
¹⁰ not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

—1 Corinthians 5:9-10, ESV
Jul 18, 2021 32 tweets 12 min read
𝟏/𝟑𝟐 In the wake of the #PCAGA, Kevin Twit (@kevinjtwit) argued that “union with Christ language” is superior to “identity in Christ language,” thus setting them at odds with each other & alleging that the latter unduly focuses on believers more than on Christ. 𝟐/𝟑𝟐 This was a sequel to his suggestion on the floor of the GA that those who interpret 1 Cor 6:9-11 as ruling out a “gay Christian identity” subscribe to a Keswick/Wesleyan view of sanctification (Thursday Closing Business Session, start at 2:05:33.) livestream.com/accounts/85219…