Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?
What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?
Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?
What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?
Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?
More Questions
What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?
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?
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
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?
More Pauline Passages
Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?
What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?
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?
More from the OT
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