What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
More Questions
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 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”?
What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?
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?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
More Pauline Passages
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
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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