Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
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?
Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
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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 forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
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?
Is it true that Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve,” 1 Timothy 2:13) is faulty because it is based on the wrong Creation account (Genesis 2 instead of Genesis 1) and because it attaches significance to the fact that man was created before woma
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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?
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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?
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