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I'd recommend that you investigate the agendas or doctrinal taint behind those putting together the study Bible notes. Realize that all of the study notes are just men's words and very likely to be tainted with doctrines of man. They automatically steer your filters towards their own doctrines.
The men who compiled the ESV study notes are also founding members of the Counsel on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. They are **very** invested in complimentarianism so much that they see it everywhere, including as I explained above in 1 Cor 11:3.
They have taken 3 verses out of the Bible and made a 250 page doctrine out of them complete with pronouncements of how you are sinning if you don't follow things in their 250 page construct (things that are not explicitly stated in the Bible itself). Their doctrine subjugates and enslaves half of Christ's body.
To be clear, the three verses in the Bible could to some support complimentarianism, and to some they don't. Each viewpoint feels theirs is clearly described in the Bible. My husband is a complimentarian and he's the most wonderful, loving awesome husband I could have ever found. So complimentarians do not by definition subjugate and enslave half of Christ's body. An extreme version of complimentarianism does, though - the version that makes 3 verses into 250 pages of vain doctrines of men.
A parallel to this 250 page development of those verses is how the Pharisees developed a 250 page doctrine out of resting on the Sabbath day. From the simple language of the commandment, the Pharisees developed 39 restrictions of activities the Jews were to observe. The Pharisees saw that God was resting from creating. So this is how their development of the doctrine went:
What is creating? Farming is creating. Planting, sowing, winnowing, reaping are all farming activities. Therefore you can't plant, sow, winnow or reap on the Sabbath.
Not only can you not plant, you can't do any activities that could lead to planting, such as create any holes in dirt (such as with a high heeled shoe walking in the dirt) or create ditches (such as dragging a chair through dirt).
Not only can you not winnow, but you can't do any activities that seem like winnowing such as sorting. If you have grapes, apples and oranges in a bowl, for example, you can pick out only enough for a serving for yourself (i.e. select a cluster of grapes or an apple) but you can't divide the apples, the grapes and the oranges into three separate bowls on the Sabbath.
Lighting a fire is creating. Turning on a light is making a fire, or turning on a stove, or turning on a car. Sabbath compliant refrigerators are designed to know the days of the week so the light does not come on when the door is opened on Saturday. Pharisees said if you wanted a hot meal on Saturday you needed to turn your hot plate (or burner) on the night before so you didn't have to create a fire on Saturday. A fire that was already burning was OK, though.
Do you see where men building 250 pages worth of fences around three verses can get wonky? Let's not add to the inspired word of God. Study Bible notes are adding men's doctrines to the words of God; it's good to know what the agenda is upfront.
If you want a longer post on the fallacies in the ESV study Bible committee's doctrines, and how they pulled the Trinity into it, I could go on and on. Their vain doctrines inform what they believe about the Trinity. I hope this simple example of where things go when you add 250 pages to a simple precept in the word of God was illustrative.
The men who compiled the ESV study notes are also founding members of the Counsel on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. They are **very** invested in complimentarianism so much that they see it everywhere, including as I explained above in 1 Cor 11:3.
They have taken 3 verses out of the Bible and made a 250 page doctrine out of them complete with pronouncements of how you are sinning if you don't follow things in their 250 page construct (things that are not explicitly stated in the Bible itself). Their doctrine subjugates and enslaves half of Christ's body.
To be clear, the three verses in the Bible could to some support complimentarianism, and to some they don't. Each viewpoint feels theirs is clearly described in the Bible. My husband is a complimentarian and he's the most wonderful, loving awesome husband I could have ever found. So complimentarians do not by definition subjugate and enslave half of Christ's body. An extreme version of complimentarianism does, though - the version that makes 3 verses into 250 pages of vain doctrines of men.
A parallel to this 250 page development of those verses is how the Pharisees developed a 250 page doctrine out of resting on the Sabbath day. From the simple language of the commandment, the Pharisees developed 39 restrictions of activities the Jews were to observe. The Pharisees saw that God was resting from creating. So this is how their development of the doctrine went:
What is creating? Farming is creating. Planting, sowing, winnowing, reaping are all farming activities. Therefore you can't plant, sow, winnow or reap on the Sabbath.
Not only can you not plant, you can't do any activities that could lead to planting, such as create any holes in dirt (such as with a high heeled shoe walking in the dirt) or create ditches (such as dragging a chair through dirt).
Not only can you not winnow, but you can't do any activities that seem like winnowing such as sorting. If you have grapes, apples and oranges in a bowl, for example, you can pick out only enough for a serving for yourself (i.e. select a cluster of grapes or an apple) but you can't divide the apples, the grapes and the oranges into three separate bowls on the Sabbath.
Lighting a fire is creating. Turning on a light is making a fire, or turning on a stove, or turning on a car. Sabbath compliant refrigerators are designed to know the days of the week so the light does not come on when the door is opened on Saturday. Pharisees said if you wanted a hot meal on Saturday you needed to turn your hot plate (or burner) on the night before so you didn't have to create a fire on Saturday. A fire that was already burning was OK, though.
Do you see where men building 250 pages worth of fences around three verses can get wonky? Let's not add to the inspired word of God. Study Bible notes are adding men's doctrines to the words of God; it's good to know what the agenda is upfront.
If you want a longer post on the fallacies in the ESV study Bible committee's doctrines, and how they pulled the Trinity into it, I could go on and on. Their vain doctrines inform what they believe about the Trinity. I hope this simple example of where things go when you add 250 pages to a simple precept in the word of God was illustrative.
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