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Threats to the Purity of the Church - [Women Ordination]

Seventh-day Adventists claim to be the pure church because all our doctrines and practices are understood from the Bible.  "Thus saith the Lord" is a requirement.  "It is written" is a must. We also understand that other denominations are impure because they have redefined Sabbath and baptism.  maybe for reasons of convenience or previous unsubstantiated practice they resort to defending their practices instead of going back to the Bible.  So others have the wrong sabbath (spurious sabbath according to egw) and also the wrong mode of baptism.  But adventists are not like them.  In their defense of their practices they call themselves "apostolic church" meaning giving themselves license to redefine things like how apostles added or redefined things in the new testament.  This is very dangerous position. However there seem to be current threats to the purity of the Seventh-day adventist church with regarding to the definitions of women elders and women p