What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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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
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?
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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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?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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