Adventist Ordination Crisis

What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?

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

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?

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

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

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 say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?

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”?

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?

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

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

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?

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

Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?