Ar trebui femeile să fie hirotonite ca pastori? Considerații asupra Vechiului Testament – partea I

Should Women be Ordained as Pastors? Considerations on the Old Testament – Part I

Abstract

In the modern discussion over whether women should be ordained as pastors, the foundational passage for both those who affirm and those who oppose women’s ordination is Gen 1–3. Those who affirm women’s ordination find in the Genesis creation accounts a statement of full equality without hierarchy of man and woman, set forth as the divinely ordained creation order. They see the rest of Scripture calling us back toward that creation ideal, and allowing for women to fill any position of authority to which God calls and gifts them. Those who oppose the ordination of women also go to Gen 1–2, where they find support for their view that male headship, both in the home and in the church, is a divinely ordained creation ordinance. They see this reaffirmed in Gen 3 and the rest of Scripture, and thus they assert that women cannot assume the role of authoritative headship in the church. What is often common to both groups is a similar view of authority—as top-down hierarchy. Opponents argue that such hierarchical leadership in the church is a male prerogative; proponents urge that women should have equal rights to those hierarchical leadership offices. What is the truth regarding these matters? This first part of a four-part study is a tentative answer derived from the opening pages of Scripture to discover what constitutes God’s creation order for the relationship between men and women.