If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
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?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
More Questions
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?
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
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?
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 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?
More Pauline Passages
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
More from the OT
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