Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
More Questions
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
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 not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?
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?
More Pauline Passages
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
More from the OT
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