Adventist Ordination Crisis

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

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

Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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