Adventist Ordination Crisis

Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?

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

Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?

If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?

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

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?

Why does Paul appeal to Adam's being created before Eve to justify his injunction that women should not be permitted “to teach or to have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it arbitrary to assign leadership on the basis of priority of creation?

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

But most of the people I know (many of them, anyway) are in favor of ordaining women as elders or even pastors. Shouldn't this count for something?

Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?

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

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

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

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