Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

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

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

What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?

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?

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 kind of speaking does Paul prohibit to women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 when he writes, “The women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says”?

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?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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

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