Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
More Questions
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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
More Pauline Passages
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?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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?
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