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Adventist Ordination Crisis

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This website, which represents the historical Christian position, is dedicated to supporting women in ministry according to the scriptural model. We know, for instance, that in the beginning, God created both man and woman in His image, with equal value and dignity (Galatians 3:28). Moreover, in the Bible, God clearly calls women to use their spiritual gifts in a myriad of different ministries (Joel 2:28, 29). At the same time, the Creator designed men and women with distinct gender traits and appointed them to embrace different roles within the family and the church. It is Holy Scripture that calls men to be the spiritual leaders in these realms (1 Timothy 2:2–5). This site assembles some of the best scholarship and media on this subject from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective.

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The Adventist Ordination Crisis
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If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?
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Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?
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Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
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What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
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Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?
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Pauline Passages
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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?
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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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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 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 does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
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Old Testament
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Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?
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Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?
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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?
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What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?
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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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