What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women 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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Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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
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
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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?
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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?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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