Women/Women in the Church

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17 questions

• QWhy are women not permitted to recite any of the Readings in the church?
• QAre there any reasons given in the Holy Bible (or anywhere else) as to why we do not mention women names in biblical genealogy?
• Q"What reasons did St. Paul give in justifying why women should not teach or to have authority over a man?" In answering this question, I have a problem applying St.…
• QCould you please explain St. Paul’s verse, " Let a woman learn in silence " (1 Tim 2:11-15). Secondly, what happens to women who can't bear children, are virgins, or…
• QI want to know what makes a woman in God's eyes. "charm is deceitful and beauty passing, but the woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised" is my favorite verse,…
• QI would like to hear your views related to the issue "letting women to share in the readings during Apocalypse night (Revelation)." I have been in different States in US…
• QWhy do we not allow women priests in our church?
• QWhy are women portrayed as inferior in both the Bible and the church?
• QWhat is the meaning of the verse " Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive as the law also says "…
• QSt. Paul did not permit for women to teach in the church. What does this mean? Not to teach in the Liturgy only or in the church at all? Teach only in Sunday School? Do…
• QA Protestant guy told me that the Holy Bible said that women should not speak in church. I told him that it was written at a time when that was fitting. Is that right?
• QWhy are women's roles in the church limited (can't be a deacon, priest, read the Gospel during the Divine Liturgy, etc.)?
• QWhat are your thoughts concerning these quotes, because this is pretty shocking to me? Woman is a temple built over a sewer. – Tertullian, “the father of Latin…
• QI am a Coptic woman. I feel very strong about women's rights. I think women are able to do as much as men. I understand that God created men and women with different…
• QI'm an American Protestant. While having a discussion with some Muslims from Saudi Arabia, the topic of women covering their hair was brought up. I was unsure whether on…
• QWhy do we practice the churching of women? Why do we still practice this? Has not our Lord cleansed us from all defilement? Why must we wait a certain amount of time so…
• QWhy was Christ incarnated as a man and not a woman? What makes it significant is that Christ was a man and not a woman? Some say that God is biased against women in this…

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