An egalitarian new creation

Thanks to Gem for the kind comments a couple of posts ago. The topic of my comment on the blog where Gem found me fascinates me, so I'll post it here, with changes only for context:

When it comes to gender roles (and in many other areas), we're dealing with Fall-based logic. Scripture says pre-Fall (though written after the Fall) that woman was taken out of man. It seems most of our categories for thinking about female-male relationships spring from the curse God pronounces on his creation as a result of their misallocation of their position (namely, the Fall).

I don't get out much, but I don't hear anyone talking about how the age to come that began breaking in at Jesus's resurrection reverses that curse as well as all curses on the creation. Through Jesus an unprecedented era of blessing continues to dawn (read: should be dawning) where as Paul innovatively said, "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (TNIV). (Rob Bell notes in Velvet Elvis that Paul was the first person to undermine and destroy the hierarchical thinking that so ordered the world to that time.)

We need to start thinking in terms of new creation as Paul did. This would have made the last two millennia a lot less agonizing, and it would have gone a long way toward the Savior's full redemption of his creation.

We need to set female-male relational roles on the appropriate foundation, that of new creation reality.

Scrabble

For those of you paying attention, it has been more than three weeks since I've posted, and I'll go ahead and blame my new obsession with playing Scrabulous on Facebook. I'll open up a window on that world with the craziest Scrabble board I've ever seen. Thanks, Amber, for a memorable game.