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Women Pastors Always Preach Heresy? ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_Ff-eQu38Cw/maxresdefault.jpg) 🔗 **Source:** [Women Pastors Always Preach Heresy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw) > [!note]+ Document Notes > tags: [female-pastors, biblical-authorship, pauline-epistles, complementarianism, textual-criticism] > author: Dan McClellan > source: YouTube (Dan McClellan) > reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw > date created: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} {{time:HH:mm}} > > # 🏷️ Title: Women pastors always preach heresy? >  ## 🧭 Table of Contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ## 📝 Summary - **What happened**: Biblical scholar Dan McClellan (channel: Dan McClellan; podcast "Data Over Dogma") responds to the claim "female pastors always preach heresy," arguing the premise inverts who is actually ignoring scripture. - **Why it matters**: The video is a compact case study in how textual criticism (authorship attribution, interpolation theory) gets deployed as a rhetorical weapon in live culture-war debates about complementarianism versus egalitarianism in church leadership. - **Key stakeholders**: Complementarian critics of female clergy, egalitarian/female pastors, biblical scholars weighing in on Pauline authorship, lay viewers on TikTok/YouTube consuming short-form theology content. - **Risks and tradeoffs**: The argument leans on academic consensus (deutero-Pauline authorship of the Pastoral Epistles, an interpolation in 1 Corinthians 14) that is contested outside critical scholarship; presenting it as settled fact risks alienating viewers who hold different views of scriptural authority, and the closing personal attacks ("deeply misogynistic and stupid," "grow the hell up") undercut the argument's persuasive reach for a skeptical audience. - **Bottom line**: McClellan argues that everyone selectively "ignores" some scripture to construct a coherent position, so the real question is not whether female pastors ignore scripture but which texts get privileged and why — and he contends the anti-female-pastor position privileges pseudepigraphic texts over authentic Pauline ones for misogynistic reasons. ## 📖 Main Content ### Format and framing This is a short (5:52) reaction/rebuttal video typical of McClellan's "Data Over Dogma" output: he opens by voicing the target claim ("Female pastors always preach heresy... they will always sprinkle in a little bit of heresy on top of their sermons") and an interlocutor-style prompt ("Well, I hope you'll be providing examples of some of this heresy"), then spends the rest of the runtime dismantling it point by point, occasionally slipping back into the interlocutor's voice to represent counter-objections before answering them. ### The core inversion argument McClellan's central move is to reject the premise that ignoring scripture is unique to female pastors. His claim: scripture "is not univocal. It is inherently inconsistent and self-contradictory," so any preached message is necessarily "over and against some other part of scripture that conflicts with that." Every pastor, in his framing, selects which parts of scripture to foreground and which to set aside — the disagreement is about *which* parts, not *whether* selection happens. ### The textual-critical case He grounds the argument in three specific claims about the Greek text and its transmission: - The word "pastor" (or the role) appears only once in the entire New Testament, in Ephesians 4 — a letter McClellan says probably wasn't written by Paul either — with no attached qualifications. - Romans 16 has Paul (in an undisputed, "genuine Pauline letter") identify a woman, Junia, as an apostle. McClellan's syllogism: if a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor. - The passages usually cited against female authority — women not permitted authority over men, and women told to stay silent in services — are, per McClellan, not authentically Pauline: the silencing verse is "an interpolation into 1 Corinthians 14 that directly contradicts 1 Corinthians 11" (where women pray and prophesy in church), and the authority verse comes from the Pastoral Epistles (1 Timothy), which critical scholarship holds were written by someone impersonating Paul "decades after Paul's death." ### The reframing of "heresy" McClellan redefines the video's title claim by asserting "heresy just means an idea I don't like," then turns the accusation around: if ignoring scripture produces heresy, and everyone ignores scripture, then the critic must identify what heresy female pastors are actually preaching — a challenge he says goes unanswered because the real objection isn't textual but about "structuring power and values and boundaries and identities in ways to take access to power and resources away from women." ### The teacher/pastor distinction rebuttal He anticipates and dismantles the position that women can teach but not pastor, noting the disputed 1 Timothy passage "doesn't say anything at all about pastors" — reinforcing his point that the term barely appears in the New Testament and carries no explicit qualifications. ### Rhetorical register The piece closes by attributing motive to the (unnamed, generic) critic — calling the anti-female-pastor position "a credibility enhancing display" rooted in misogyny — and ends with a direct rebuke ("Grow the hell up"), then a sign-off identifying the episode as "Action Comics number" (cut off, likely a numbered series reference). ## 🗒️ Notes - No timestamp data was available for this source — vidIQ's transcript endpoint returned untimed text (a scene-by-scene watch pass was not run for this fallback), so notes below are organized by argument beat rather than by mm:ss marker. - **Opening frame**: McClellan voices the claim under review ("Female pastors always preach heresy") and an interlocutor prompt asking for examples, setting up the point-by-point rebuttal structure. - **Universal selectivity claim**: "Because in order to be a female pastor, you must ignore scripture... to be any kind of pastor, you must ignore scripture because scripture is not univocal." This is the load-bearing premise the rest of the video builds on. - **Apostle/pastor syllogism**: "If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor" — repeated twice in the transcript, functioning as the rhetorical anchor of the whole argument. - **Authorship attack on 1 Timothy**: Frames 1 Timothy 2:12-13 as written by "somebody who's not Paul, pretending to be Paul," which he uses to discount its authority relative to Romans 16 and 1 Corinthians 11. - **Interpolation claim on 1 Corinthians 14**: Asserts the silence-in-church verses are a later insertion contradicting 1 Corinthians 11's assumption that women pray and prophesy publicly — a text-critical position associated with scholars like Gordon Fee and Philip Payne, though McClellan doesn't cite sources on camera. - **"Heresy just means an idea I don't like"**: The functional thesis statement — used to deflate the original claim's force by recasting "heresy" as a rhetorical label rather than a theological category with fixed content. - **Motive attribution close**: Shifts from textual argument to psychological/political diagnosis of the critic ("whining," "credibility enhancing display," "deeply misogynistic and stupid"), which is a register change from the earlier scholarly claims. - **Sign-off**: "That's it for this video has been Action Comics number [cut off]" — suggests this is a numbered entry in a recurring reaction/rebuttal series rather than a standalone essay. ## 📚 References - [Dan McClellan — Linktree (courses, scholarship)](https://linktr.ee/maklelan) - [Data Over Dogma podcast](https://www.dataoverdogmapod.com) - [Data Over Dogma on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@dataoverdogma) - Scripture cited in-video: Romans 16 (Junia as apostle), 1 Corinthians 11 (women praying/prophesying), 1 Corinthians 14 (disputed silence passage), 1 Timothy 2:12-13 (disputed authority passage), Ephesians 4 (sole NT use of "pastor") - Prefer primary sources: the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament apparatus for the 1 Corinthians 14 interpolation question, and standard NT introductions (e.g., Bart Ehrman, Raymond Brown) for Pastoral Epistles authorship debate — none were named on camera, so viewers should verify the textual-critical claims independently. ## 🗣️ Paraphrase A biblical scholar takes on the viral claim that female pastors always end up preaching heresy. His counter isn't to defend any particular female pastor's sermon — it's to argue that the premise smuggles in a false contrast. Every pastor, he says, has to pick which parts of an internally inconsistent scripture to preach and which to set aside; nobody preaches all of it without contradiction. So "ignoring scripture" can't be the real charge against female pastors specifically. From there he goes text-critical: the word "pastor" shows up exactly once in the New Testament, with no rules attached. Paul, in a letter scholars agree he actually wrote, calls a woman an apostle — and if a woman can hold that higher office, the argument goes, she can hold the lesser one. The verses usually used to block women from church leadership come from documents he says either got inserted later or weren't written by Paul at all, decades after Paul died. So, in his framing, the anti-female-pastor position is itself built on ignoring the authentic material in favor of the fake material — and the reason people do that, he argues, is to keep power away from women, not because of what the text actually says. ## 📰 Newsletter 🧭 **A five-minute masterclass in "who's really ignoring the text?"** Biblical scholar Dan McClellan takes the "female pastors always preach heresy" line and flips it: if scripture is internally inconsistent (his framing), every pastor selects what to preach — so the real fight is over which passages get authority, not whether selection happens at all. He leans on textual criticism most churchgoers never hear about — the disputed authorship of the Pastoral Epistles, a proposed interpolation in 1 Corinthians 14, and Junia's apostleship in Romans 16 — to argue the anti-female-pastor case rests on the least authentic parts of the New Testament. Worth a watch for anyone teaching or writing about how authorship criticism gets used (well or poorly) in live theological debates; worth a skeptical eye for how quickly the argument shifts from "here's the textual evidence" to "you're just misogynistic." ## ✅ Action Items #### Content & Education - Biblical literacy: build a short explainer on Pauline vs. deutero-Pauline authorship criteria for viewers who want to check McClellan's textual claims themselves. - Source-linking: if referencing this video in other content, pair it with citations for the 1 Corinthians 14 interpolation argument and Pastoral Epistles authorship debate, since none are given on camera. #### Community - Discourse moderation: if this video surfaces in community discussion, flag that it mixes a scholarly textual-criticism argument with motive-attribution rhetoric ("misogynistic and stupid") — worth separating the two when evaluating the argument's strength. - Cross-viewpoint balance: pair with a complementarian scholar's response (e.g., someone defending Pauline authorship of the Pastorals) if using this for a balanced teaching series. ## 🧪 Hypotheses - If the Pastoral Epistles are pseudepigraphic (a claim McClellan asserts as settled), then arguments against female pastors drawn solely from 1 Timothy carry less canonical weight relative to undisputed Pauline letters. - If 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is an interpolation, then the "women be silent" instruction was not part of Paul's original argument and coexisted uneasily with 1 Corinthians 11's assumption of women praying/prophesying publicly. - If viewers are not already familiar with authorship-critical methods, then the video's rapid citation of "pseudepigraphic" and "interpolation" claims will be taken on the speaker's authority rather than evaluated on the evidence. - If the video's persuasive appeal depends partly on its closing moral framing ("deeply misogynistic and stupid"), then viewers already sympathetic to McClellan's conclusion will find it satisfying, while skeptical viewers may discount the textual argument because of the tone shift. ### 📊 Methodology - To test the authorship claims: compare vocabulary, style, and theology of 1 Timothy/Titus/2 Timothy against the seven-letter undisputed Pauline corpus using standard NT-introduction criteria (already an established scholarly method, not original to this video). - To test the interpolation claim: examine manuscript evidence and textual apparatus for 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (its position varies across manuscript families, which is the main evidence cited by scholars for interpolation). - To test audience reception: A/B compare viewer reactions to a version of this argument presented without the closing motive-attribution rhetoric, to isolate how much persuasive force comes from the textual case alone. ### ❓ Questions - What specific manuscript or scholarly evidence does McClellan rely on for calling 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 an interpolation, since none is cited on camera? - How does McClellan's claim that "pastor" occurs only once in the New Testament account for related terms like "elder" (presbyteros) and "overseer" (episkopos), which complementarian arguments typically invoke instead? - Does the video's audience already share McClellan's premises (deutero-Pauline authorship, interpolation theory), or is it preaching to a scholarly-literate in-group rather than persuading skeptics? ### 🔮 Future Research - A companion piece surveying how "authorship criticism as rhetorical weapon" appears across other hot-button biblical debates (e.g., women's ordination, sexuality) would clarify whether this is a repeatable pattern in McClellan's content or specific to this topic. - Reception research on short-form theology content (TikTok/YouTube Shorts-adjacent format) and whether it changes minds versus reinforcing existing positions. ### 💡 Implications - **Practice**: Clergy and lay teachers using this argument should be ready to substantiate the interpolation and pseudepigraphy claims, since a confident critic will ask for the manuscript evidence. - **Policy**: Denominational bodies debating female ordination rarely settle disputes via authorship criticism alone; this video is better used as one input among historical, systematic, and pastoral-theology arguments, not a standalone case-closer. - **Education**: Useful teaching example for how textual criticism gets popularized and simplified for social media — good for a media-literacy or hermeneutics lesson on the gap between academic nuance and short-form certainty. - **Funding models**: The video promotes McClellan's paid course offerings (Hebrew, canon formation, etc.) via description links, illustrating the now-standard creator-scholar monetization pattern of free short-form content driving paid deep-dive sales. ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment - Reading level estimate: transcript reads at roughly a college level (Flesch-Kincaid ≈ grade 12-13), driven by technical terms (pseudepigraphic, interpolation, univocal) used without on-screen definition. #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: talking-head delivery; no diagrams, charts, or on-screen text were confirmed since only the audio transcript was retrieved for this fallback (no scene-by-scene visual pass was run). - Improve: on-screen citations for the manuscript/authorship claims, a simple timeline graphic showing undisputed vs. disputed Pauline letters. #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: the entire video is spoken argument, which suits aural learners directly; tone shifts (interlocutor voice vs. rebuttal voice) are audible cues to argument structure. - Improve: a slower pace or brief pause before each new textual claim would help aural learners track which verse is being discussed. #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: analogies (apostle-to-pastor syllogism) and clear definitional moves ("heresy just means an idea I don't like"). - Improve: a plain-language glossary callout for "pseudepigraphic," "interpolation," and "univocal" would help verbal learners unfamiliar with biblical-studies jargon. #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: none — this is a passive-viewing rebuttal video with no interactive or hands-on component. - Improve: a companion worksheet mapping each disputed verse to McClellan's claim and a space to look up the counter-scholarship would give kinesthetic learners something to do with the content. #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: the video is structured as a formal-ish syllogism (woman-as-apostle implies woman-as-pastor) and a categorical inversion argument (everyone ignores scripture, therefore selectivity isn't the real objection). - Improve: a simple premise/conclusion outline on screen would make the logical structure easier to audit in real time. #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: the video's interlocutor-voice format simulates a dialogue/debate, which suits social learners who process ideas better through conversation. - Improve: linking to actual response videos or comment threads from complementarian scholars would give social learners real discussion to engage with. #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: the argument is dense enough to reward re-watching and personal note-taking. - Improve: a written companion post with the scripture references listed out would support solitary study without needing to re-scrub the video. #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: not applicable — the content has no ecological, environmental, or systems-in-nature framing. - Improve: not applicable to this source; no naturalistic hook exists in the argument as delivered. ### 📊 Accessibility Assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: could not be assessed — this analysis is based on the audio transcript only; on-screen text, headings, or captions structure were not independently verified. - Improve: if publishing a written companion piece, use semantic headings per argument beat (as in the Main Content section above) rather than a single unbroken paragraph. #### Keyboard navigation - Not applicable to this source: video playback controls are governed by the YouTube player, not by this content itself. #### Contrast and readability - Could not be assessed: no visual/on-screen text data was retrieved for this fallback (transcript-only source). #### Text resizing and reflow - Not applicable to this source: this is a video, not reflowable text; applies only to any written transcript/companion page hosting. #### Media and captions - Present: YouTube auto/creator captions exist (the vidIQ transcript tool draws from caption data), which supports deaf/hard-of-hearing access. - Improve: a cleaned, punctuated transcript (this document's Notes section) improves on raw auto-captions, which often lack punctuation and speaker cues. #### Forms and interactions - Not applicable to this source: no forms or interactive elements in the video itself. #### Standards reference - Gap against WCAG 2.2 AA: 1.2.2 (Captions, prerecorded) appears met via YouTube captions; 1.2.4/1.2.5 (audio description) status could not be verified from a transcript-only pull. ### 🌍 DEIB Assessment #### Cultural breadth - Present: the argument stays within a Western Protestant/evangelical frame (Pauline authorship debates); no cross-cultural or global-church examples of female clergy are cited. - Improve: reference how women's ordination is handled across denominations and regions (e.g., Anglican Communion provinces, mainline Protestant bodies, global Pentecostalism) rather than treating it as a single monolithic debate. #### Inclusive language - Present: gendered terms (women, female pastors) are used descriptively and matter-of-factly rather than pejoratively in McClellan's own voice. - Improve: the closing rhetoric ("grow the hell up," "deeply misogynistic and stupid") is combative rather than inclusive-language-neutral; a version aimed at persuasion rather than dunking would tone this down. #### Neurodiversity support - Present: argument beats are somewhat chunked (claim, textual evidence, rebuttal, close), which helps some neurodivergent viewers follow structure. - Improve: explicit verbal signposting ("first," "second," "my third point") would help viewers who struggle to track argument structure by tone shift alone. #### Representation - Present: the video centers women's ability to hold pastoral authority and draws on Junia (a woman named as an apostle in Romans 16) as a positive representational data point. - Improve: naming actual female pastors or theologians (rather than only rebutting an anonymous critic) would make the representation more concrete than abstract. #### Psychological safety - Present: no explicit content warning, though the topic (misogyny accusations, heated rhetoric) could be sensitive for viewers with experience of gatekeeping in religious contexts. - Improve: a brief framing note acknowledging this is a polemical/rebuttal format, not a neutral survey of the debate, would help viewers calibrate expectations going in. ### ✅ Logical Validity #### Strong reasoning - **Analogical/a fortiori argument**: "If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor" — reasons from a greater office (apostle) to a lesser one (pastor), a legitimate a fortiori structure if the premise (Junia was an apostle) holds and if "pastor" is in fact a lesser or comparable office. This is the strongest single move in the video because it's explicit and checkable against Romans 16:7. - **Internal consistency challenge**: Pointing out that 1 Corinthians 11 assumes women pray/prophesy publicly while 1 Corinthians 14 tells them to be silent is a legitimate textual tension worth flagging regardless of which side of the interpolation debate one lands on. #### Fallacies - **Genetic fallacy risk**: Dismissing 1 Timothy's authority because it "wasn't written by Paul" addresses provenance rather than the content's claims — this is a legitimate historical-critical point for questions of *apostolic authority*, but McClellan uses it to fully discount the text's relevance rather than engaging its argument on its own terms, which edges toward genetic reasoning. Fix: address why pseudepigraphic authorship should defeat the passage's normative claim, not just note the authorship dispute. - **Ad hominem / motive attribution**: Closing lines ("deeply misogynistic and stupid," "credibility enhancing display," "grow the hell up") attack the critic's character and motive rather than the argument, after the textual case has already been made. This weakens rather than strengthens the argument for a neutral audience. Fix: let the textual argument stand on its own; motive speculation invites the same charge back ("you're just biased toward egalitarianism"). - **False dilemma (implicit)**: The framing "either ignore some scripture like everyone else, or explain what heresy is being preached" doesn't fully account for a third position — that the disputed passages are authentic and binding, which is precisely what the critic being rebutted likely holds. Treating that position as already refuted (via the authorship claims) inside the same breath as demanding proof of "heresy" compresses two separate arguments into one rhetorical move. #### Tone of voice - Combative, sarcastic, and mocking in delivery (imitating the interlocutor's voice with exaggerated enthusiasm: "Well, I hope you'll be providing examples of some of this heresy"); shifts to blunt and dismissive in the close ("Grow the hell up"). ### 🛡️ DARVO Analysis - **Note on fit**: DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) is a framework built for analyzing responses to abuse allegations; this video is a theological polemic, not a personal-misconduct defense, so the framework applies only loosely, by analogy to its "reversal" structure rather than as a literal case of DARVO. - **Deny**: McClellan denies the premise outright — female pastors are not uniquely guilty of "ignoring scripture" because, in his framing, no coherent preaching is possible without selective emphasis. - **Attack**: He attacks the critic's position as itself built on "lies," on a "pseudepigraphic" text, and as "misogynistic and stupid" — shifting from defending female pastors to going on offense against the accuser. - **Reverse (accuser becomes the accused)**: The rhetorical climax reverses the original charge: it's not female pastors preaching heresy, it's the critic who "prioritizes lies" and "ignores what the authentic Paul had to say" — recasting the accuser as the one actually violating scriptural authority. - **Emotional cues and rhetoric**: Sarcasm ("Wow. Imagine that."), mockery of the interlocutor's voice, and a closing insult function as rhetorical pressure rather than argument, layered on top of (not replacing) the textual-critical case. ## 🎯 Conclusion McClellan's rebuttal works by refusing the terms of the original claim: instead of defending specific female pastors' sermons, he argues that "ignoring scripture" is a universal feature of preaching given an internally inconsistent text, then uses authorship criticism (disputed Pastoral Epistles, a proposed interpolation in 1 Corinthians 14) and a a fortiori reading of Romans 16 to argue the anti-female-pastor position specifically privileges the least authentic material in the New Testament. The a fortiori apostle-to-pastor argument is the strongest piece of reasoning here; the authorship-dismissal move and the closing motive attribution are the weakest, since they either beg the question against readers who hold the disputed texts as authoritative or substitute insult for argument. Practical next step for viewers: verify the interpolation and pseudepigraphy claims against a standard critical NT introduction before repeating them as settled fact, and separate the textual argument (worth engaging seriously) from the closing rhetorical framing (which won't persuade anyone not already convinced). ## 🔄 Refactor Appendix — Women pastors always preach heresy? ### 📚 Literature Atoms (H3) #### If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor > [!quote] ID:transcript_1 > "And Paul in a genuine Pauline letter identifies a woman as an apostle. If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor." **Context & use**: - Central a fortiori argument of the video, grounded in Romans 16's reference to Junia. - Functions as the load-bearing syllogism the rest of the rebuttal builds on. **Tags**: #xref #aphorisms **Highlight**: [view highlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw)  #### Scripture's internal inconsistency makes selective preaching universal > [!quote] ID:transcript_2 > "Scripture is not univocal. It is inherently inconsistent and self-contradictory. And so, anytime you try to preach any given message, you're doing so over and against some other part of scripture that conflicts with that." **Context & use**: - The premise underlying the video's inversion of the original "heresy" claim. - Worth testing against specific counterexamples before accepting as a blanket rule. **Tags**: #xref **Highlight**: [view highlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw)  #### The word "pastor" appears once in the New Testament with no attached qualifications > [!quote] ID:transcript_3 > "the office of pastor is mentioned only once in passing in the entire Bible and there are no qualifications that are assigned to it" **Context & use**: - Used to undercut the idea that scripture prescribes qualifications excluding women from the pastoral office specifically. - Worth cross-checking against related-office terms (elder, overseer) that complementarian arguments typically substitute. **Tags**: #xref #articleseed **Highlight**: [view highlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw)  ### 🧠 Permanent Candidates (H4) #### A fortiori arguments from scripture only hold if the office hierarchy premise holds **Claim** (Courtney's voice): An a fortiori argument like "if a woman can be an apostle, she can be a pastor" only works if apostle is genuinely a higher or comparable office to pastor within the source's own framework. **Evidence pointer**: [[#If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor]] **Scope & conditions**: Holds when the office hierarchy is explicit and uncontested; breaks down if the audience disputes that apostleship implies or exceeds pastoral authority. **Links**: - [[Biblical hermeneutics debates]] — because applies-in complementarian/egalitarian ordination disputes - [[Authorship criticism as rhetorical weapon]] — because extends into how textual-critical claims get used in live argument  ### ✏️ Fleeting Queue - [F1] Look up the manuscript evidence McClellan implies but doesn't cite for the 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 interpolation — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw #fleeting #inbox - [F2] Find a complementarian scholar's direct response to this specific video for balance — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ff-eQu38Cw #fleeting #inbox ### → Things 3 (max 2 actions) - [ ] Verify the 1 Corinthians 14 interpolation claim against a standard critical NT introduction — biblical-literacy research #things  📄 **Full text:** [[Full Document Contents/Articles/Women Pastors Always Preach Heresy.md|Women Pastors Always Preach Heresy? by YouTube]] ## Highlights - Female pastors always preach heresy. >> All right, let's see it. >> This is something I constantly see online where they will always sprinkle in a little bit of heresy on top of their sermons. >> Well, I hope you'll be providing examples of some of this heresy. >> Why is this so common? Well, because in order to be a female pastor, you must ignore scripture. And ignoring scripture leads to heresy. >> Well, to be any kind of pastor, you must ignore scripture because scripture is not univocal, but is ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kxh9gwevkr11r41qedxvpatn)) - Tags: atom/literature/h1 - about female pastors is to ignore scripture because there's not actually any passage of the Bible that says women can't be pastors. In fact, the office of pastor is mentioned only once in passing in the entire Bible, and there are no qualifications that are assigned to it. And Paul in a genuine Pauline letter identifies a woman as an apostle. If a woman can be an apostle, a woman can be a pastor. So, you don't ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kxh9h0pteqgyaeh44cawm1h5)) - Tags: atom/literature/h2 - >> Heresy just means an idea I don't like. So, what heresy do you preach now that we've established that you ignore scripture? You ignore scripture that actually came from Paul and asserts scripture that came from someone who was lying about being Paul decades after Paul's death. I wonder what kind of heresy comes from misogyny and from prioritizing pseudepigrapha over and against authentic Pauline writings. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kxh9h5b1ev6hbsrd4j4y8smh)) - Tags: atom/literature/h3 - "Oh, look at that one. They're willing to tow the line. They must be one of the good ones." It's a credibility enhancing display. But using misogyny as a credibility enhancing display is pretty pathetic. Grow the hell up. And this video for this video is Action Comics number one. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kxh9h8p9ymzmfn8adqxftak2)) - Tags: atom/literature/h4