Is the ordination of women to the priesthood possible?
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Well, when you are talking about the priesthood, I am not a good source since I am non-denominational. As for pastors, no, I think the Bible makes it clear for a man to do the teaching. However, women have a very important role in counseling other women.\nWomen have the greatest of the jobs because Jesus said that let he who is to be the greatest, be the servant.\nI was led to Christ by a very Godly woman named Myra. Being a woman does not limit you in who you can share with or bring to the Lord. However, in leadership, it should be a the male that takes charge.
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This would depend entirely on the church, or denomination that you belong to and also on where you are from.\n\nAre you wanting to become a minister, or just to marry people? In may states you do not have to be ordained to marry people, some states allow Notarys to perform weddings, or they have Justice of the Peace who do civil weddings without having to be ordained.\n\nIf you are wanting to become ordained, the best advice that I can give you as an Archbishop myself, is to speak to your pastor, he can guide you in the proper direction.
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You have to be baptized.\nYou have to have the Melchizedek Priesthood.\nYou have to be called by God.\nThere are a few other little requirements. But Those are the main ones.
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Great article below:\n\nOlympia Brown\n\n"Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835-October 23, 1926) dedicated her life to opening doors for women. Among only a handful of women to graduate from college, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch in 1860 and three years later became the first woman graduate of a regularly established theological school at St. Lawrence University. She was ordained a Universalist minister, the first woman to achieve full ministerial standing recognized by a denomination. As a young minister, she took an active role in the women's suffrage movement and was one of the few original suffragists who lived to vote in the 1920 presidential election."\n\nRead more here:\n\nhttp://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/olympiabrown.html\n\nHope it helps.
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This is a leadership role. The women were to teach the younger women. This is the order that God has established for the church and the home.
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In the early history of the Catholic church this is true ... because women were/are viewed as being the source of original sin and therefore unclean.  Additionally if a woman wanted to become a nun her family had to pay a dowery to the church in order to become one and then pay for her keep in the nunnery.
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http://www.daughtersofzionministries.com/
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Hell, yes.  Many (of the few existing in U.S.) are leaving the convent.  You just might get a wife out of the deal.
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You can ordained in numerous ways. To be legal you would have to obtain a license in your state to act as a minister.\nTo get a license you would need a certificate and letter of ordination. These would need to be signed with 2 signatures from the ordaining church.\nMy organization Elohim Evangelical Ministries ordains people and I ordain about 10 people a year.
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Yes.  The current ban on marrage for priests stems from when individual priests held important political power in there local communities, and also held the right to land owned by the church.  This power and wealth would often find its way to his wife and children.\n\nToday this is not much of a issue in major christian based faiths.
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If not being allowed to be clergy and their jobs in the afterlife is being perpetually pregnant to populate their husbands planet and share him with other 'wives' is discrimination then the answer is yes.\nPlus this...\nAuthor's name: Jessica Longaker\nThe Bibliography is on the bottom of this page\nReligious Studies 263\nMarch 27, 1995\n\nWomen and Mormonism\n\nMany religions have recently begun changing in an attempt to equalize the roles and responsibilities of men and women. Mormonism is one of the exceptions. The Mormon position on women has changed little since the early 1800's, when the official view was that "woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband" (McConkie 844). This attitude, coupled with the doctrine of polygamy and the absolute power claimed by the men of the church, created a legacy of profound sexism which modern Mormonism has been unable to escape.\n\nMormonism has created an ingenious system of oppression, in which opposition towards men is tantamount to arguing with God. The Mormon religion makes no distinction between clergy and laity, at least with regard to men (Laake 9). All Mormon men are ordained as members of the "priesthood," with the absolute authority to preach the gospel, bestow blessings, prophecy, perform healings and baptisms, and generally speak for God. "Their priesthood gives them the right to advise and instruct the Saints (i.e., Mormons), and their jurisdiction extends over all things spiritual and temporal" (Snowden 134).\n\nAt age twelve, boys become members of the Aaronic, or lesser priesthood, and at nineteen become eligible for the Melchezedek, or higher priesthood. Members of either priesthood are higher authorities on everything than are non-members. Women are, of course, excluded from the priesthood. This practice in effect says that a woman's prepubescent son is more qualified to advise her than she is to advise him. The official explanation is that women are kept from having the priesthood because women are more spiritual than men, therefore, men need to have the priesthood to teach them how to be better people (Johnson 86). Women are also told that, because they have the all- important ability to bear children, men need the power of the priesthood merely to remain equal with them.\n\nThe most notorious example of Mormon treatment of women is, of course, the practice of polygamy. In early 1843, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, announced to the press that, despite rumors to the contrary, the Latter-Day Saints did not practice polygamy and believed it was an abomination (Wallace 53). He spoke the truth as far as the vast majority of Mormons was concerned, for polygamy is expressly forbidden in the Book of Mormon. However, Joseph himself had been married to at least eleven women besides his legal wife by 1843. (Wallace 52). The first of these, in 1835, was a seventeen year old orphan who had been taken in by his wife, Emma Smith. Joseph apparently married all of these women without the knowledge of either his wife or his fellow Mormons (Wallace 52).\n\nOn July 12, 1843, Joseph Smith declared that God had given him a new revelation concerning marriage and he revealed it to his brother and other high-ranking male church members. This revelation from God, at one point, specifically instructed "mine handmaid Emma Smith, Joseph's wife" to accept this doctrine and allow Joseph to have as many wives as he liked, as long as they were all "virtuous and pure" (Snowden 191). Emma Smith was a very strong-willed woman, and Joseph was so frightened of her wrath that he sent his brother Hyrum to inform her of God's plan. Emma was understandably scornful, and threw Hyrum out of her house (Wallace 55). Later, she managed to obtain a written copy of the revelation, and while in Joseph's presence, tossed it directly into the
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We believe this is the dispensation of the Fullness of times.  All things had to be restored including the Aaronic Priesthood. \n\nThis restoration also included polygamy and will one day bring the Law of Consecration as well.
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Hope this helps..Also I think pastors/priests can do marriage counseling....
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Seems to me if women simply knew their place as God intended this debate would be mute. Certainly this calls for a revival of teaching the true Word of God to bring things back into line with His command....... women should not sin this way and all of them will be smoted down for these transgressions or my name isn't Christian philosopher, Ohn Thuy Long \n\nThank you Ms Truthz and I can't wait to see what you have made me for dinner in the kitchen..'n I hope you got the laundry done cause I need a fresh shirt for Sunday services whilst you are cooking...mmm mmm that turkey smells like it was cooked by an angel from heaven...let anyone be eternally condemned if they don't smell that heaven is cookin' up somethin' good for ya....peeeewww wheeeee!\n\nwOrd
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why aren't the priests allow to marry?
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Women can preach and teach - but Biblically speaking they can not be Pastors - not an overseer of the Church.\n\nEven then the woman needs to be full of the Spirit or else she just ends up babbling about things she knows nothing about. MEN AS WELL!!!!\n\nAnd as far as Men Pastors - there are a great many who are in the position who have ignored the requirements. These men I would not sit under because if they ignore the written word, how can they truly teach it?
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no i don't think they were pedophiles when going into priesthood. they just had normal human desires for sex. unfortunately there easiest way to get satisfaction was there altar servers in which they had closest contact with.