Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
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?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
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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
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?
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?
More Pauline Passages
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
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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