Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
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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 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?
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
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”?
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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?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
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?
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