Adventist Ordination Crisis

Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?