Adventist Ordination Crisis

Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?

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

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

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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