Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?

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

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

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 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 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

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?

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

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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