Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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?
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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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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 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?
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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?
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?
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