Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
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 Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
More Questions
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?
What kind of speaking does Paul prohibit to women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 when he writes, “The women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says”?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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?
More Pauline Passages
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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?
More from the OT
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