Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

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

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for 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?

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?

Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

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

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?

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?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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?