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@Dennis933625175 Yes, it does. The word means "women."

@CovenantReform2 No it doesn't. Read. "Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Let deacons each be the husband of one wife...." Deacons are men. Their wives are not. I find it amazing what you read into this verse that isn't there.

1 Timothy 3:11 is about female deacons.

@andrewroosbell @IVMiles One of the great questions about Southern history is how they were able to sever their Christian faith from their ethics so that they could fight for a (truly) "wicked cause" or, later, pretend it didn't exist.

@IVMiles I don't understand how his religion is relevant to his status in American history, which is entirely about being a rebel in service of a wicked cause.

What’s interesting about Stonewall Jackson is—while he was a certainly a dutiful churchman—he didn’t have “thick” **theological** commitments. He was sympathetic to Rome and a baptized Episcopalian who only spent the last few years of his life in his wife’s Presbyterian faith.

@Dennis933625175 Yes, it does. Learn.

@CovenantReform2 Nope. "The women" doesn't translate into "the women deacons," no matter how much you want it to.

@WilliamAll23313 @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman I just told you they are Functionally the same. What part of that don't you understand?

@CovenantReform2 @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman They aren’t functionally the same. Swap them in the second premise. “Only the Church can form truly virtuous people.” You don’t think this is a true statement. “The Church” is a new term which DeYoung introduces into his conclusion.

An interesting syllogism @RevKevDeYoung just used on stage with @JonathanLeeman at Coram Deo in talking about the role of the church versus the state: “Political orders require virtuous people. Only Christianity can form truly virtuous people. Therefore, the Church of Jesus Christ has the missional task of preaching the Gospel and forming a virtuous people.”

@Dennis933625175 No, they are not. Saying false things repeatedly doesn't magically make them come true. The term used for Phoebe is "deacon." 1 Tim 3:11 is about women deacons.

@CovenantReform2 Au contraire, deacons are specified as male. Phoebe was more of a servant with no authority over men. 1Tim does not say women are deacons.

@WilliamAll23313 @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Functionally the same. There no Christianity without the church and no church without Christianity.

@CovenantReform2 @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Christianity = a particular, comprehensive set of beliefs. The Church = the institution comprised of the people who hold those beliefs.

@JLuttje I haven't tried Claude yet but, upon your recommendation, I will. I also like Gemini. I agree with you about Grok.

Claude > ChatGPT. Grok is just terrible.

@RTB_HRoss a bat

What do you think this star-forming nebula in our galaxy looks like?

@WilliamAll23313 @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Christianity = the church

@AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Pretty sure you can't introduce a new term into your conclusion.

@proginosko @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Christianity = the church

@AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman The conclusion is true, but it doesn't follow from *those* two premises. What follows from those premises is: Political orders require Christianity. If Kevin believes that, I'm pleased to hear it. 🙂

@joe_rigney @AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman Christianity = the church. You fell for the covenant-baptism shell game.

@AndrewTWalker @RevKevDeYoung @JonathanLeeman I agree with the sentiment, but that fails as a syllogism. Do political orders require “truly” virtuous people? If so, then the conclusion would be that political orders require Christianity. The church’s role would require a separate syllogism.

@docMJP @TuckerCarlson @joekent16jan19 Do you ever draw conclusions?

You can disagree with @TuckerCarlson and @joekent16jan19. But do so after listening to what they’re actually saying and directly respond rather than calling them names. Marginalizing them is not going to work. This isn’t a joke. These aren’t unserious concerns or questions.

@INRI2025 The second commandment forbids icons and the early church strictly prohibited them. The early church would excommunicate all papists as idolaters.

Council of Nicea II (787 AD): holy icons of Christ, Mother Mary, Angels, Saints should be placed to be honored with VENERATION, not adoration Basis: God became Flesh Christ's human nature He can be represented in art x.com/i/status/20346…

@Timcast It's not embarrassing to the USA.

This is fucking embarrassing Holy shit

"The Continuity and Catholicity of the Doctrine of Regeneration" johncarpenter.substack.com/p/the-continui… "It is impossible to state dogmatically that the pre-Reformation doctrine of regeneration, ..., was categorically distinct from the doctrine developed by Reformed theologians."

@BuckeyeChi5 @EndWokeness I lived in Chicago too and was glad the day I saw it disappear in my rearview mirror.

@EndWokeness So they are approaching the stop where the white sox stadium is. AKA Bridgeport. AKA close to the new Obama library. This is the city I thank God every day I fled.

Chicago train rider: "I'ma kiII whites. I got out 2 days ago. I finna kiIl for real."

@Dennis933625175 It doesn't say that. You're reading your assumptions into the text. 1 Timothy 3:11 says "women." Romans 16:1 describes a woman as a deacon.

@CovenantReform2 "Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife...A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well." 1Tim 3 Deacons are men.

@INRI2025 @FightForMary @Chad4328 Yeah, they were idolaters. Every Christian before AD 500 strictly prohibited icons.

@CovenantReform2 @FightForMary @Chad4328 You think the papal legates and hundreds of Bishops who were at the Councils, Nicea II and Trent, don't know Exo 20:3-6 ? If Jesus was born in 1826 His photos would have been on the prayer tables of people all over the world, incl you, to GAZE UPON Him while praying Num 21:8-9

Sinful Mary wasn't even a queen of a double wide

@FightForMary You're an idolater, not a Christian. If you want to become a Christian, you will have to repent of your idolatry.

@CovenantReform2 Catholics - calling her Blessed for 2000 years! The Mother of my Lord!!

Calling idolatry “veneration” no more sanctifies it than calling adultery “love-making” purifies the deed.

@johnpauldickson @AdrielTweets It's not in the Bible. Your point is wrong.

Yes, I know the manuscript tradition well. My point is that it’s in the Bible of everyone we preach to in our churches. That alone invites the approach I recommend—teaching some textual criticism, offering a charming (likely) event from the life of our Lord, and showing how this historical remembrance illustrates multiple themes of actual Scripture. But this approach is not for everyone. Cheers.

You're preaching through the Gospel of John, and you come to the notorious pericope adulterae (7:53-8:11). Do you: