Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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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?
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?
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”?
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Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
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?
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