Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?