Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?

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

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

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

Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?

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”?

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?

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

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?

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

What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?

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

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

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