Could it be that as long as the main concern of some of the Brethren at GC is to fight the ordination of women, La Sierra is "safe" from their influence?
I think this "battle" over ordination is a huge diversion! It's a scheme to get people's minds off the real issues that are undermining the very fundamental doctrines of our church.
Evolution taught as the only plausible scientific explanation for human origin in Seventh-day Adventist universities and colleges? How can that possibly be allowed by the leaders?
Yet, the ONLY way changes will be made is when the grass roots (the average members) get together and demand change, if people simply sit back and think the high level bureaucracy is going to set things right, they will not see it happen. That is just sad but plain fact.
The only reason La Sierra was put under pressure to change was because MEMBERS and local people and church pastors began to demand it, not because any high authority saw this grave departure from truth and stepped in.
Yes, when people began to protest, they did studies, and had a big convention on creation studies, they even announced that creation is the truth, BUT have they done anything to impliment solid creation/science in our schools?
Has anything changed, or have people just been told a lot of "double speak" to lull them back into complacency so the colleges can continue their agenda in peace?
And sunday being proclaimed as the seventh-day Sabbath in the South Pacific islands, by Adventist leadership in that area.
The leadership is basically set in stone that sunday will be called the Sabbath, the GC basically says, talk to these "stones" to get your answers. The only way change will come is when MEMBERS and local people start demanding it, and resisting (disobeying) the decision of the South pacific Division.