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

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?

Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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