What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
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Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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 not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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
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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Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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