Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
More Questions
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 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?
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
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?
Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
More Pauline Passages
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
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 evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
More from the OT
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