Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?
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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
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?
Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?
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
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What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
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?
Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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