What's your opinion on the ordination of women?

Question

Do you think that women should be ordained to be pastors or priestess?

Answer 1

MAY I GIVE YOU GOD'S OPINION from The Scriptures AND NOT FROM CHURCH Teaching?

The New Testament was written in Greek and the sentence structure Agrees in Person, Number and Gender.

Here in Ephesians the word, Pastor and Teachers ARE IN THE MALE GENDER!

(Ephesians 4:11) And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

AND....

(1Timothy 2:12-to-15) But I do not allow a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.
(1Ti 2:13) For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
(1Ti 2:14) And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
(1Ti 2:15) But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

DID JESUS, call any Women Apostles? NO, NONE!

Remember, "GOD IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT!" That is Why = HE IS GOD!

Thanks, RR

Answer 2

Well... I dont think that women being the head of the church or the family is how it should be or how God wants it. However, if men arent taking their responsibility in the family, then of course the women have to take the responsibility on themselves and God doesnt look down upon them. Same with the church, if the men arent doing their jobs, then by all means allow the women. Im not offended by female pastors but I do think sometimes their intentions may be bad. Some female pastors really feel they are called to teach and preach and I am no one to say they are not. But some of the female pastors are so "womens lib" that it seems like they only became pastors just because the Bible says not to. Know that I mean?

Answer 3

i'm in want of females being ordained (many protestant church homes already have females pastors). As for celibacy, that's merely the Catholic church that demands it for priests, and the Anglican church has the alternative of taking vows of celibacy or not for priests. the two RC and Anglican clergymen and nuns are required to take a vow of celibacy. Now, celibacy is all properly and robust, yet i think of we've seen with the RC church the subjects that could arise. Celibacy won't be organic, no count the sexual orientation, and the thought at the back of compelled celibacy is that the weak point of the flesh won't get in the way of devotion and faith. greater handy mentioned than performed.

Answer 4

Men should be the spiritual leaders however; if a woman is called by God to preach, like Deborah was in the book of Judges, I'm fine with them being ordained.

Answer 5

Although Paul's mention of Adam being "over" Eve as justification for women's silence in the church can be interpreted as an edict for all time, he has spoken his piece and left the building, leaving us to interpret whether he spoke to his own culture and time or had today's society also in mind. It makes for an interesting dichotomy for deciding whether we should either stay as close to biblical times as a possible in the conduct of our worship, or whether these are simply the last remnants of gender discrimination.

The church has easy justification for not conforming to the ways of the world, but I think if the church is going to be conducted in the same way that a marriage is a conducted in Judeo-Christian terms, the woman has far more equality in that relationship today than she did in biblical times, and I think the same parallel needs to exist in the church today.

Answer 6

As "pastors" - I have nothing to say.

It is impossible for a woman to be a Priestess. Scripture says no, Tradition says no, reason says no, the Roman Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Traditional Anglicans (like me) say no. The Episcopal Church allows it - and that was the beginning of their downfall and ultimately the end of them as a catholic body.

Answer 7

I do not believe that a woman should be a church Pastor unless her husband is the head Pastor of that church. Now this is just MYopinion at this point as the final word on that has not yet been decided in our circle.

Answer 8

I never understood why not, even at the depth of training I had undergone digging around Catholic studies for years. The Pope and the Magisterium never did give a logical, satisfactory answer, they just keep quoting the same ancient, sexist reasons.

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Answer 9

In Christianity, according to the bible and Paul, it's not allowed. In Islam, it's allowed for a woman to be an Imam to other women and children, but not other men. Not trying to slam here, but if christians earnestly followed the bible (not generalizing here, please don't take it the wrong way) there would be no question of it. All you have to do is to read the scripture. I as a muslim woman have respect for both becuase it's my duty to know of both. I used to be a Christian and know the bible very well. It's not just ordination, but the bible is against a lot of things concerning women.

Answer 10

Considering my wife has gone through 6 years of college and going to seminary for 3 years, I think her ordination will be richly deserved.