Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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?

Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?

What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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?