Adventist Ordination Crisis

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

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

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

Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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?