What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
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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
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?
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?
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Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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