Adventist Ordination Crisis

Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

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

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

Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?

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?