Adventist Ordination Crisis

Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?

What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?

Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?

What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?

Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?

Is it true that Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve,” 1 Timothy 2:13) is faulty because it is based on the wrong Creation account (Genesis 2 instead of Genesis 1) and because it attaches significance to the fact that man was created before woma

Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?

Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?

Does 1 Timothy 2:12 really forbid all kinds of teaching and speaking by women in the church? If the Adventist Church took Paul's statement literally, “I permit no woman to teach . . . she is to keep silent,” following it would cripple us, since we use the talents of women so heavily in Sabbath Schoo

Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?

What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?

Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?

What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?

Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?