Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
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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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
But most of the people I know (many of them, anyway) are in favor of ordaining women as elders or even pastors. Shouldn't this count for something?
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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Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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