What is a man? A common and perpetual question among the effeminate and boys seeking to become one.
Manhood is a socio-cultural construct, as well as a biological reality.
As a construct it crumbles not only before death, but before anything devoid of society’s natural rules and laws.
As a biological reality, it dies by definition and cannot transcend its grips.
Therefore, manhood, as defined without Jesus Christ, is not enough to reach heaven, and sainthood, with the touch of fortitude, may do so.
Man fights to survive, to live. What is it to live but to live eternally? Therefore, a man who dies without defeating death is an eternal failure and an eternally effeminate being, a coward, for he who cannot defeat death has fought in vain and failed.
Those who defeat death in Christ are not so but have become victors and conquerors, deified in their being, entering heaven, not as cowards, vanity, or effeminate, but as men of God, a true man.
So pray, provide, and defend. Labor, love, and be as God. Fight to survive, to live, but to what end? Eternally! Fight for your loved ones. But do not imitate the ways of the eternally effeminate manhood of this world, devoid of God, for their destiny is a dollhouse and teapots to play with in the dungeons of hell as they strut around on earth until the veil is lifted, and their deficiencies and feigned acts made known and discovered.
We are in the beginning until the end, what we become and are eternally. Therefore, fix your eyes on God and do not think much of those whose ways end with a toy, a dollhouse, and teapot in hand, for that is what they are now and always will be till the day they repent and join the ranks of saints, of eternal men.
So, "Act like men be strong," for in having faith, we have conquered death and are gazing with our eyes upon eternity - a resurrection of the body.