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?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?
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 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?
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?
More Pauline Passages
Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
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?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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