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To: NetAddicted

a person can no more identify as a tree as of the opposite sex.


14 posted on 06/09/2022 8:38:54 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009; 05 Mustang GT Rocks; Ad Orientam; alex; antonius; aposiopetic; arielguard; ...
"a person can no more identify as a tree as of the opposite sex."

Agreed.

But tree and opposite sex are closely intertwined when it comes to ancestral aka "original" sin:

Have you seen the wonderful victory? Have you seen the splendid deeds of the Cross? Shall I tell you something still more marvelous? Learn in what way the victory was gained, and you will be even more astonished. For by the very means by which the devil had conquered, by these Christ conquered him; and taking up the weapons with which he had fought; he defeated him. Listen to how it was done.

A virgin, a tree, and a death were the symbols of our defeat. The virgin was Eve; she had not yet known man; the tree was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the death was Adam’s penalty. But behold again a Virgin and a tree and a death, those symbols of defeat, become the symbols of his victory. For in place of Eve there is Mary; in place of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; the tree of the Cross; in place of the death of Adam, the death of Christ.

Do you see him defeated by the very things through which he had conquered? At the foot of the tree the devil overcame Adam; at the foot of the tree Christ vanquished the devil. And that first tree sent men to Hades; this second once calls back even those who had already gone down there. Again, the former tree concealed man already despoiled and stripped; the second tree shows a naked victor on high for all to see. And that earlier death condemned those who were born after it; this second death give life again to those who were born before it. Who can tell the Lord’s mighty deed? By death we were made immortal; these are the glorious deeds of the Cross.

Have you understood the victory? Have you grasped how it was wrought? Learn now, how this victory was gained without any sweat or toil of yours. No weapons of ours stained with blood; our feet did not stand in the front lines of battle; we suffered no wounds; witnessed no tumults; and yet we obtained the victory. The battle is the Lord’s, the crown is ours. Since then victory is ours, let us imitate soldiers, and with the joyful voices sing the songs of victory. Let us praise the Lord and say:

Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?

The Cross did all these wonderful things for us; the Cross is a war memorial erected against the demons, a sword against sin, the sword with which Christ slew the serpent. The Cross is the father’s will, the glory of the Only-begotten, the Spirit’s exultation, the beauty of angels, the guardian of the Church. Paul glories in the Cross; it is the rampart of the saints, it is the light of the whole world.

John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, (344-407)

16 posted on 06/09/2022 8:54:56 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Yesterday, I heard someone say cybot was one identity.


18 posted on 06/09/2022 9:15:44 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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