Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?

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 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 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 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?

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

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

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?