Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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?

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

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?

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”?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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