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?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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