What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?
What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?
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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?
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 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?
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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?
Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?
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?
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