What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
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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 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 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 evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
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