What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
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?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
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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?
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
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”?
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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?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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