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re-defining male and female and that which
defines them is to Tend and Keep
the purpose of God on the earth.
MAS-CU-LINI-TY Period. See what Genesis 2:15
says “Then the Lord God took the
man and put him in the garden of
Eden to tend and keep it.” (Mind
THE MALE SIDE OF GOD you, man here includes the woman
still in man before she was brought
By Samuel Phillips out)
This is the whole essence of
God’s plan for man. To tend and
to keep the interest of God on
earth. To tend means to nurture, to
incubate, to care for, while to keep
is to watch over with diligence, the
purpose of God on the earth, till
it bears fruit and multiplies. It is
this tending and this keeping that
Adam was created for and it is
also for this tending and keeping
that Eve was created as helper to
Adam. And it is this tending and
keeping that God blessed. And did
you notice that what God asked
man to tend and keep was not
planted or planned by man? It was
uck it up! God who planned and planted the
You can’t do that as a Certainly, we are living in a garden and then gave it to man to
man! generation that is running very fast tend and keep it. Meaning that all
A man sheds blood towards the opposite direction of that man has been taught to do in
before he sheds everything that God intended from order to prove his masculinity is
Stears! the beginning for man. nothing but toiling and sweating
If you continue this way as a boy, which came as a curse after the
how will you take charge of your Gender role playing fall of man. Meaning that for
home when you become a man! The system of this world by default those who pride themselves in
Never ending list of what it should has created a twisted role play for that which came out of toil and
be like. both sides of gender. And because sweat only do so because they
these things are so ingrained in do not understand the original
I grew up without many friends, the heart of our very existence on plan of God for man. And because
maybe just one or two at every earth, deciding not to live by these both the male side and female
point of my life. And being an ingrained patterns is like deciding side of God were created together
introvert with a passion for not to live at all. For the male, he is on the day God created man and
idealistic thinking, my books a man if he has a university degree, called them Adam, it means that
became my friends and I enjoyed a well paying job, a car, a house, a to tend (nurture and incubate) is
their company. I read everything fat bank account and sometimes directly tied to the woman who is
I could lay my hands on as long a fine well trimmed body. Even a natural incubator and womb for
as it flipped open and had black though these things are not bad reproduction and multiplication,
ink on it. And sure enough, my in themselves and even though while to keep (watch over and
“friends” painted lots of pictures they look like good traits of a take care) is tied to the man.
of what life is outside of my inner well articulated life, there is not a Meaning that both sides of God
circle, gave clues of what a man society or man made institution which incubates like a mother
looks like and what is expected of that has the moral standard to and the side which watches over
him both from his family and the define roles for either male and as a father are both ingrained in
society. But thanks be to God who female. The purpose and standard the Adam (male and female) that
helps us triumph over those things of God for man (Male and Female) God created. Meaning that for the
that have the power to create in us is simple and straightforward. The restoration of the original plan
patterns that are not His. role and purpose of God both for and purpose of God for the earth
