John Behr: From Adam to Christ: From Male and Female to Human Being

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One of the most significant theologians in the Orthodox world.

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06:15 Nicholas Cabasilas, Life in Christ 6.91-4

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17:45 Creation is eschatological not protological

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Does this explain the evolution of man from animal?

[@mythologicalmyth]

No, that is not science. It is anti-theist materialistic propaganda. Mathematics has disproven godless highly improbable provocations of origins.

[@OrigenisAdamantios]

The “Plan A vs. Plan B” ideology admits its need for Apokatastasis!

[@1214gooner]

What a mysterious mystagogy! What exactly will apokatastasis involve? Answer: Totality. But what will that totality look like? How will it be instantiated in each particular-hypostatically and otherwise? Who knows!

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The problem is, you can’t circumvent the classifications of “male” and “female” in the name of “becoming human,” without negating them. This is why the traditional Christian doctrine of sexuality is very nearly indistinguishable from that of the gnostics. For in both domains, identity finds its fulfillment in its cessation.

[@mikehornick4971]

The problem is, some comment without listening to what’s said. Behr says: “Our existence as males and females is the horizon on which we learn through the power of erotic attraction to lay down our lives for another, to die to ourselves.” Tell us how this “circumvents” or “negates” male and female. And what are *you* circumventing? Because everyone is tempted by red herrings like those listed in the video: marriage is for procreation, legitimacy, traditional values, safe space for sex, etc. Anything but dying for or serving another. Marriage and parenting offer that opportunity. Maybe your red herring, or white whale, is the gnostics. They were all over the map on these issues, having other priorities.

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Too difficult to hear.