What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
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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?
Is it true that if Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation is valid, then the animals should rule mankind because animals were made before Adam was?
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?
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
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 Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
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