What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
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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Why does Paul appeal to Adam's being created before Eve to justify his injunction that women should not be permitted “to teach or to have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it arbitrary to assign leadership on the basis of priority of creation?
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
Why does Paul say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?
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