For the First Time in History, Adventists in Puerto Rico Celebrate Their First Female Pastor

The Seventh-day Adventist faith has been in Puerto Rico since 1898, and for the first time in its 123-year history, they have appointed a female pastor. The South Puerto Rico Conference of Seventh-day Adventists announced and marked this historic event on June 8, 2021. Abigail Babilonia (Babylon) has become the new Youth Director, ADRA Director and pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ponce, Puerto Rico. She was also welcomed to the pastoral team as the “first female pastor in Puerto Rico” by the Seventh-day Adventist University in Puerto Rico. The local Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ponce, where Abigail Babilonia serves as pastor, also gave “many” thanks and “congratulations” to Abigail for accepting the call to pastoral ministry:

Abigail Babilonia is also a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. This situation is truly historical, but not in the sense that the church is celebrating. After 123 years, the church in Puerto Rico has decided to start appointing women pastors? Why? Because until recently, they used to follow the Bible on pastoral ministry and education. Catholic education comes directly from the Vatican, not from the Bible. Rome teaches that we must obey tradition. To be in a “Pontifical” (papal) university you must accept Catholic dogma.

Now on the question over a female pastoral ministry; this is not biblical. There is no biblical support for including women into pastoral ministry. Those who embark on a path that has no biblical support are rejecting the authority of the Bible over their lives. If Seventh-day Adventists continue down this path, then we are taking a position that the Bible is not that important, and soon we will remove more biblical restrictions in other areas of the church. Soon, no moral commandment will be safe. And ultimately, the church will simply become a reflection of today’s corrupt culture on the topics of education, sexual morality, biblical roles, church order, gender theory, family life, feminism and other areas of life. This is the direction that many are trying to take us.

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