Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?

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

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

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

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

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?

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 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

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?

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

Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?

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