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In the beginning, God created male and female. As such, God saw his creation as good, so both the masculine and feminine are meant to be a blessing with a redemptive purpose. 

After the Fall, human nature was corrupted, and sin entered the world. Much of what God meant for good was also twisted, and this corruption colored our perspective of what was once good. For this discussion, the human understanding of males and females has been affected, too. 

The Bible is the written expression of God’s word to us, all for reconciliation back to the Father and the restoration of what God desires. While we may struggle with the idea of masculinity and easily point to toxic versions of it, God has a redemptive plan and design for manliness. The Scripture can then be a standard of calling and inspiration for men. 

Here are ten ways the Bible defines true manliness. 

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Since the 1990s, fatherlessness has soared while median earnings for men have declined. Boys represent 70% of all D’s and F’s given out at school and are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. They spend time in juvenile detention at over five times the rate of girls. There will be, on average, two women who graduate college for every male, over the next five years. As NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway mentioned recently on Bill Maher’s show Real Time, “The most unstable nations in the world have one thing in common. They have too many lonely, broke [men].” And yet that’s exactly the type of person modern culture is producing.  

A former Democratic presidential candidate drew applause from across the ideological spectrum Thursday when he advocated for more societal attention for boys and men, arguing that a “crisis” among males is having devastating consequences on the nation.

Margaret Mead observed that a central question any society has to answer is how to make a proper place for men. Missing in our current cultural equation for men is purpose. Low expectations, combined with a dearth of purpose, make for a dangerous concoction.

According to a new survey, American men have far fewer friends today than they did in the 1990s.

The state of our national discourse is, to put it mildly, discouraging and unhelpful, and the reaction to the recent shootings only amplified how bad it is. Once again, everyone took their place along partisan battle lines to pound the same old drums, but it’s past time we admit that there’s something deeper going on in America than too many guns, or too few guns, or violent video games, or the President’s rhetoric, or even the evil of white supremacy.

A leading sociologist says video games – and not a sudden interest in chastity – may be to blame for a dramatic increase in the percentage of young men not having sex.

Do we want women to be weak? The answer must forever be, on the basis of Scripture, "May it never be."

We often hear about the emotional trauma and scars that women feel after undergoing an abortion, but the feelings of the would-be fathers of aborted babies are not often discussed.

Steph Curry, a rising star in the Golden State Warriors, recently told reporters that he and a few of his teammates have formed a Bible study.