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Originally Posted by Amanah
Isn't it interesting the revulsion that we all feel towards a male cross dresser. And yet, outside of holiness churches, a female is hard pressed to find a line to cross and be labeled or reviled as a cross dresser, why is this?
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I think this goes toward an important point regarding Adam and Eve, and what Paul taught in
Romans 5 and 1 Timothy.
Paul wrote that Eve was deceived, and so, was in the transgression, likely inferring the fact that Eve added to the word of God (or Adam did) when she said "neither may we touch it", which is not present in the commandment God originally gave to Adam.
But note something important. Paul, while assigning a level of transgression and deception to Eve for her actions, never once writes that her transgression brought upon the entire human race the death element as the wages of sin.
Adam alone incurred that penalty. For as long as Adam did not eat, everything was fine, and Eve could have been saved through childbearing (her seed versus the seed of the serpent ushering in the Messiah, for example).
So, what is it then? The serpent of today knows that he might adequately deceive women, the daughters of Eve, into committing transgression against the word of God, but the real goal of his machinations, is to get the sons of Adam to follow Eve into her error. If he can do that, he can perpetuate the death curse.
Adam's fall from grace was penalized with the loss of Paradise. If the sons of Adam continue to fall by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not only will the women of the world be doomed to live in deception and transgression, the world itself will be doomed and any hope of any kind of Paradise will again be lost.
So, in society, deception and transgression in women is much easier to tolerate, because it doesn't automatically signal the end of civilization. But when the men follow Eve into the same mess, they become world destroyers.
The moment God found Adam and interrogated him about his actions, Adam blamed Eve and God. He immediately distanced himself from his own responsibility for his actions, and claimed victimization from his wife and from his Creator. Men have been shifting the blame ever since. And when Adam did so, instead of humbly confessing and repenting before his Maker, he incurred wrath and exile from heaven on earth.
This is the work of the serpent, even today, upon the minds of men everywhere. However much a woman may bristle at the idea, men run the show and it's a man's world, after all; men are the last line of defence. If we don't hold the line, the weaker vessel will never be saved.
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