Godly aggression, violence & hostility

There is no hint in the Bible that your aggressive instincts are a result of the fall. You are not, in other words, a defective woman. Your desire to conquer and to subdue, to hew down and to build up, to form and to shape, has nothing to do with the curse. It is man’s natural, pre-fall, created purpose. You yearn to bend the world to your will because Adam was created to bend the world to his will. Where things go wrong is not with our natural yearnings, but with our wills themselves. —Its Good To Be A Man

Nothing we say stirs up more outrage and offense than when we talk about men’s natural instincts.

The idea that men who cannot be dangerous cannot be good men. The idea that aggression, hostility, and violence did not enter into the heart of man when he fell.

Such is the effeminate hatred of God’s design in our present day.

But it’s true. In fact, if righteous aggression, hostility, and violence had entered into Adam’s heart as the serpent was talking to Eve, mankind would not have fal…