Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
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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 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
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”?
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 New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman 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?
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?
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