Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?
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?
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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 does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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 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
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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?
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?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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