The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men (Biblia.com)

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There is a crying need in the church today for men to be men. But competing visions for what a man is to be—some growing out of popular culture and others arising from flawed teaching in the church—are exacerbating the problem. Rev. Richard D. Phillips believes the problem and the inadequate solutions being put forward demand sound exegesis of biblical passages relating to masculinity. The Bible...

fit any of the stereotypes of the “man’s man.” But we all can fulfill God’s mandate to work. In that sense, we can see ourselves in God’s picture of a real man. But there’s more to the picture than work. When God put Adam in the garden to work, He gave him Eve as a helper (Gen. 2:18, 21–23). So man is to work and, generally speaking, he is to marry. Of course, there will always be God-ordained exceptions, but God’s normal plan is that men are to take wives and “be fruitful and multiply and fill the

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