Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
More Questions
Why does Paul appeal to Adam's being created before Eve to justify his injunction that women should not be permitted “to teach or to have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it arbitrary to assign leadership on the basis of priority of creation?
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?
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
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 not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
More Pauline Passages
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?
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?
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?
More from the OT
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