What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
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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?
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”?
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
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?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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