Nearly all denominations that have ordained women have experienced both the collapse of Biblical authority in their witness to the world and a major loss of membership and relevance to society
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There is nothing in the life of Ellen White that overturns God's order for His church, nor should we expect to find such a thing.
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Ellen White taught nothing contradicting the scriptural principles we have discussed so far in this series.
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We come now to the central issue in the ordination debate: whether candidates for the Christian Church’s headship offices of elder and bishop/overseer must be male.
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“But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Cor. 11:3
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Before we can analyze whether women are excluded from the headship offices of the church, we must first distinguish between church offices and spiritual gifts.
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Ordination is a grant of ecclesiastical authority, in which the church authorizes someone to act for it in a certain role, office, or mission.
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Scripture has not changed, but the culture has changed radically. Those who would conform to the culture find themselves needing to radically re-interpret the word of God.
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We come now to the central issue in the ordination debate: whether candidates for the Christian Church’s headship offices of elder and bishop/overseer must be male
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But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God (1 Cor. 11:3).
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The principles revealed by the incarnation and death of God the Son—including the submission of the Son to the Father notwithstanding that both are God and both co-eternal—have always been “the foundation of God's throne” (GC 22).
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Sex is the only distinction between human beings that Jesus created. This fact sets gender apart from any other difference we find between people, whether in history or in contemporary times.
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Before we can analyze whether women are excluded from the headship offices of the church, we must first distinguish between church offices and spiritual gifts.
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Here, and in the installments that will follow, I will present a case study of doctrinal apologetics, a biblical defense of the doctrine of male headship in the church.
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