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The role of women in the church has been a significant and debatable issue for many years. As the world changes and becomes an equal and fair society the church still feels it adequate to discriminate against women, as it is seen as justifiable in some denominations to deny the right of a women’s ordination. By looking at Bible readings, church traditions and the actions of certain organizations the question of women’s ordination can be discussed. The aim of the essay is to so prove that denying a women’s ordination is unjust and discriminative of the church An individual’s interpretation of the Bible may be that it was women’s fault that sin was brought in to the world due to the fact of Eve eating from the tree of knowledge. Therefore, women are considered to be in a state of punishment for sin. Women are held responsible for bringing original sin into the world, and being a continuing source of seduction. The biblical creation stories are interpreted as having put women in a permanent state of submission to men, by way of punishment. So obviously it would be wholly inappropriate for such “sinful creatures” to be chosen as channels of God’s grace i.e. to be teaching the scripture. However, it must b