Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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 should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
More Questions
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?
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
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 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?
Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?
More Pauline Passages
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?
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?
What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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