The LORD has blessed Pastor Doug with an educated & balanced understanding of scripture and culture in this study. He has made a difficult and controversial topic much easier to sort out and finally comprehend in a clear manner. Many of my SDA peers have always argued against women pastors and their ordination because of the Genesis verses given after sin whereby women are then “subject to men”, and later in the New Testament they are again to be child bearers and homemakers, not church leaders, and to keep silence in church.
Yet, God chose a humble, “uneducated” young woman to be the bearer of the end times message whereby she preached, wrote & published, and counseled to and for the remnant church.
Ordination, it is pointed out, was not a scriptural concept as we know it today. As far as I can tell, the O.T. ordination process for kings was anointing with oil by a prophet, being called by a prophet to fill his position, or being born a Levite. In the N.T. it was being a faithful apostle being sent out by Jesus Himself. They achieved their M.Div. by comparing scripture, living with, observing, listening to, watching, & suffering with the Savior.
Skillfully, Pastor Doug lays out the reasoning that God’s original intent was for both men and women to be equals in all aspects of life, and that the gospel is a plan to bring all of us back to that original relationship idea in homes, church and communities. Well done.
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Mark Roalson says:
October 14, 2023 at 1:11 pmThe LORD has blessed Pastor Doug with an educated & balanced understanding of scripture and culture in this study. He has made a difficult and controversial topic much easier to sort out and finally comprehend in a clear manner. Many of my SDA peers have always argued against women pastors and their ordination because of the Genesis verses given after sin whereby women are then “subject to men”, and later in the New Testament they are again to be child bearers and homemakers, not church leaders, and to keep silence in church.
Yet, God chose a humble, “uneducated” young woman to be the bearer of the end times message whereby she preached, wrote & published, and counseled to and for the remnant church.
Ordination, it is pointed out, was not a scriptural concept as we know it today. As far as I can tell, the O.T. ordination process for kings was anointing with oil by a prophet, being called by a prophet to fill his position, or being born a Levite. In the N.T. it was being a faithful apostle being sent out by Jesus Himself. They achieved their M.Div. by comparing scripture, living with, observing, listening to, watching, & suffering with the Savior.
Skillfully, Pastor Doug lays out the reasoning that God’s original intent was for both men and women to be equals in all aspects of life, and that the gospel is a plan to bring all of us back to that original relationship idea in homes, church and communities. Well done.