Emmet’s blog….Jesus and the rest of us in real life

Anyone who has spent time around children knows that boys and girls are different, they just are. You can make all sorts of arguments about boys being raised with different expectations and standards and therefor develop differently than girls, and vice versa, and that may play a part, but that isn’t all of it. The biological reductionists comments that men are more violent than women are accurate, at least in my experience growing up in a large family and being exposed to children from all sorts of cultures and parental perspectives. even the most pacifist parents will have to deal with the reality that once a boy learns that guns exist, he will have one. It may be a popsicle stick or a paper clip, but dang it , it’ll shoot!

Some of the other comments opened some pretty intense doors for contemplation, from the sections on the evolved brain and the case of emotions especially, but the one that connected to past contemplations was the comment on evolutionary biology in relation to humans in relationships and consequences, and the conclusion that there is no set direction, or as they put it “divine purpose is a retrospectively told story.” This is not an offensive statement to me, if only because I have wondered about it myself. I completely understand it as a natural conclusion, the problem for me is that my experiences say otherwise. The question is, can we as believers enter this dialog without experiences of  prophetic and practical intervention/action that go beyond the other sides ability to box in retrospective explanations?