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?
What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
More Questions
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?
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?
Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
More Pauline Passages
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
More from the OT
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