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Adventist Ordination Crisis

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This website, which represents the historical Christian position, is dedicated to supporting women in ministry according to the scriptural model. We know, for instance, that in the beginning, God created both man and woman in His image, with equal value and dignity (Galatians 3:28). Moreover, in the Bible, God clearly calls women to use their spiritual gifts in a myriad of different ministries (Joel 2:28, 29). At the same time, the Creator designed men and women with distinct gender traits and appointed them to embrace different roles within the family and the church. It is Holy Scripture that calls men to be the spiritual leaders in these realms (1 Timothy 2:2–5). This site assembles some of the best scholarship and media on this subject from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective.

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The Adventist Ordination Crisis
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Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
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What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
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Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
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What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
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Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
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Pauline Passages
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Is it true that Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve,” 1 Timothy 2:13) is faulty because it is based on the wrong Creation account (Genesis 2 instead of Genesis 1) and because it attaches significance to the fact that man was created before woma
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Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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Does 1 Timothy 2:12 really forbid all kinds of teaching and speaking by women in the church? If the Adventist Church took Paul's statement literally, “I permit no woman to teach . . . she is to keep silent,” following it would cripple us, since we use the talents of women so heavily in Sabbath Schoo
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Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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Old Testament
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
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What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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