Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?

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

Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?

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 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?

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?

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

Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

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

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?

Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?

Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?