Adventist Ordination Crisis

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?

Is it true that if Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation is valid, then the animals should rule mankind because animals were made before Adam was?

Why does Paul say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?

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?

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

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?