Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?

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

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 kind of speaking does Paul prohibit to women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 when he writes, “The women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says”?

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

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?

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

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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?

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