What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
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?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
More Questions
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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?
More Pauline Passages
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
More from the OT
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