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?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
More Questions
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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 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?
More Pauline Passages
Did Adam “rule over” Eve 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?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
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