What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
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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?
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?
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”?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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?
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Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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