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?

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

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

Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?

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

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

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

What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?

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

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?

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

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

Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?