Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?