I have a pretty good notion the committee agreed to publish this paper, and those papers are generally regarded as expressing the views of our church.
If no survey was done, and no discussion was had at a GC Session on the matter, I fail to see how we can say that the church as a whole believes that elders being the husband of one wife does not refer to elders being men.
If you need an answer to that question I refer you back to the paper, which, in my opinion, answers that question quite adequately.
I want to hear you articulate the explanation given. I want to hear you repeat the argument and say that you agree with it. If the explanation cannot be repeated easily and confidently by those who read it, then that raises questions about the argument.
What can I do about your failures, Bob? Since it is impossible for you to read and understand what the General Conference Biblical Research Institute has written in response to the teachings of Pipim and Damsteegt, do you need the assistance of a good female who has gone to school and learned how to read?
You seem unwilling to read it unless some kind of a survey be done. Are the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist church based on surveys rather than Bible study? If this is the case it is new to me. And then you also want a vote on it. But you expect everyone else to follow some claims made by certain people who were not members of the Adventist Biblical Research Institute, nor has any vote been taken on the claims of these documents.
With all of your predisposed animosity against the truth of this document you expect anyone to give you a short gist of a six page document as a response to the animosity you already show against it?
I have my serious doubt that the Creator of mankind, who has stated, "Come now, and let us reason together", works like that. Go back to the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and see how they reasoned together at the early Sabbath Conferences.