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How do you explain Paul dispatching Phoebe to Rome, then? To speak only to a female audience?

Notice that Paul says to Timothy "I do not allow," rather than "God does not allow." So we cannot tell whether he is counseling his protege based on personal preference or divine command. And notice the reason he gives: "For Adam was formed first, then Eve." Why that makes not only Eve, but...

You mean like 1 Cor. 7:12? Or like 1 Cor. 7:25?

I am curious to know which Apostles you think wrote gospels.

I agree. But that does not guarantee that Paul was imparted with EACH AND EVERY TEACHING that the Apostles were given.

It makes no logical sense that God would care one whit about the gonads of His ministers. But logic is never invoked as a basis to deny ordination to women. Rather, the arguments against women serving as clergy are always premised on Scripture, primarily Paul’s letters, especially 1 Cor...

“Free choice remains to be exercised. A person chooses to believe, and also chooses to behave—and one can make the first choice yet not make the second in harmony with the first.” “But if a man truly believes something, surely he will act in accordance with that belief.” Now it was I who was...

Methinks you put too much emphasis on the three year periods, my friend. First, we do not really know the length of Jesus' ministry with his apostles. Here is a pretty good canvassing of the reasons we do not: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/473674 Second, the apostles...

The Church fathers are not always unanimous. They disagree among each other on some points. So it would be impossible for me to accept all Church Father pronouncements. Leaving that point aside, YES, if there were a unanimous interpretation of the Church Fathers on how to construe an...

No, I would be weighing their interpretations of an ambiguous Scripture verse to see what light it may shed on how to resolve the ambiguity.

I've said all along that this tense is was a peirphrastic construct (see Post #16), and that there was no stand-alone perfect conjugation (see Post #18). And I've said all along this interpretation of Matthew is a matter which grammarians disagree. So let's you and I just disagree and leave it...

Here is the whole paper.

Being a periphrastic construction it won't be conjugated with a singe specific verb ending. It will generally have a perfect participle trailing a future stem verb ending, normally the future indicative of εἰμί

I would view it as referring to an action or event that will be complete within a particular future time. How would you define it?

Not easily, because of their periphrastic construct, which makes it harder to hunt them down. Some see Matt. 16:19 and 18:18 as examples, but as noted in the sources I cited, the context can dictate otherwise. That's the debate, I suppose.

"Resources for Reading the Greek New Testament" : "Koine Greek has 7 Tenses: Present, Imperfect, Future, Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect. The last 2, Pluperfect (Past Perfect) and Future Perfect, are rare." "The Future Perfect tense appears less than 10 times in the New Testament...

Well, he never declared he didn't love the Lord. He declared he loved his fellow man -- presumably to raise the inference that the latter implies the former (which gets confirmed at the end of the poem).

I have debated this point with Greek grammarians before, and some agree with you, but most disagree. ἔσται δεδεμένον is commonly translated either as "will be bound" or "will have been bound" -- but I think "will be bound" is the better translation. The perfect participle δεδεμένον would...

Indeed! The sacrifice is being realized―rather than repeated―through the consecration and offering of the elements in a mystical union stretching across the bridge of time and space. I have yet to find a better exposition of this view than the following excerpt from an 1884 sermon given by an...

So you are introducing a third interpretation -- that Christ was referring to himself as the rock in Matt. 16:16-18. So now here are the candidates if we add yours: 1. Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son...