A comment on a recent video made me look into something I don’t believe I’ve ever seen discussed. The comment was on the video I shared in Worship or Edification in the New Testament Church? It pertained to Lydia, the first convert to Christianity in Europe. This is the comment: The church in Lydia’s house …
I left a comment on my post Were the Apostles Wrong About Jesus’ Return? in which I said I would expand on this topic in a full post. As it turns out, it worked better to put it into two posts. The first expansion is in this post: The World (oikoumené) in the New Testament. …
After tackling The Interpolation Argument Regarding 1 Corinthians 14:33-40, I decided to have an exchange with Arya about 1 Timothy 2:8-15. As you can see below, it was eager to tell me all the things before I asked. But I managed to reign it in and keep it on track. LOL! I find it interesting …
I heard about the Allie Beth Stuckey blowup on Twitter/X after the fact and have done my best to accurately put all the pieces together. (If anything I’ve reported below is factually incorrect, please let me know in the comments.) What stood out to me is that it is the perfect encapsulation of what I …
Several years ago, Wayne Grudem wrote But What Should Women Do In The Church? It went massively viral and was discussed at length. I found a copy in the Wayback Machine and have copied it here so it is not lost. I’ve tried to retain the original formatting as much as possible. As I’ve been …
The restrictions put on women\’s functioning in the church by complementarians generally come down to a few key verses. As I\’ve written before, most people read the entirety of the Scriptures through the complementarian filter of those few verses. Because they believe those verses must be true as they are literally read, they dismiss anything …
