Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
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Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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”?
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
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
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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?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
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