Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
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 should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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?
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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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?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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?
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