Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in 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?
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?
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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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?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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