Adventist Ordination Crisis

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

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?

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?

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?

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 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

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

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

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

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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?