Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

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?

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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