Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
More Questions
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?
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?
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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?
More Pauline Passages
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
More from the OT
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