Adventist Ordination Crisis

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?

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

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

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

Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?

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 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?

Why does Paul say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?

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?

Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?

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

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

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

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?