Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
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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?
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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”?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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
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Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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?
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?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
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