Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?

Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?

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

What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?

What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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