Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
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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 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?
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 not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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”?
More Pauline Passages
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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