Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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?

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 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?

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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?

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