Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?
Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
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Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?
Is it true that if Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation is valid, then the animals should rule mankind because animals were made before Adam was?
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
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
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Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?
Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?
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?
Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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