Tag: #RealFaithAin’tPolished

  • They told us Eve fell first.

    They told us Mary Magdalene was a whore.

    And they were wrong about both.

    In Part I, I said it straight: Adam went silent.

    God gave him the command. God trusted him to lead, to teach, to protect. But when the moment came, he just… stood there. No voice. No warning.

    And Eve—set up with incomplete knowledge—took the fall.

    But here’s the kicker: God didn’t scream. He didn’t smite.

    He prophesied redemption in the curse.

    And that redemption? It wouldn’t come through Adam.

    It would come through a woman.

    🕊️ Eve and Mary Magdalene: The Bookends of Redemption

    Let’s fast-forward to Golgotha.

    The male disciples? Gone. Hiding. Running.

    But at the foot of the cross, through blood and agony, stood Mary the mother of Jesus—and Mary Magdalene.

    They didn’t flinch.

    They didn’t flee.

    They didn’t need titles or thrones or pulpits.

    They had presence. They had loyalty.

    And in a world ruled by patriarchy and empire, that was a revolution all its own.

    Jesus saw them.

    And in that final hour, He turned to the one disciple still there—John (or possibly Simon depending on which gospel you read)—and said:

    “Woman, behold your son. Son, behold your mother.”

    That wasn’t just family reassignment.

    It was spiritual realignment.

    He was saying: “This woman is not a footnote. She is the heart of the story now.”

    🌪️ Mary Magdalene: The First Evangelist

    And what about Magdalene?

    The woman history smeared.

    The one preachers labeled “the prostitute” to make her repentance sexier.

    But the Gospels? They don’t call her that.

    She had demons, yes—seven of them. But haven’t we all?

    And it was Mary Magdalene—not Peter, not James, not any of the so-called “pillars”—

    who stood at the tomb.

    Who wept.

    Who saw angels.

    Who saw the resurrected Christ.

    And it was to her He said:

    “Go and tell them…”

    She became the first evangelist.

    The message was trusted to a woman.

    And maybe, just maybe, that was the reversal all along.

    ⚔️ The Redemption Code: A Saint Dirty Face Confession

    Let me make this plain:

    Redemption never comes through polished sermons or pristine reputations.

    It comes through the wounded, the watched, the written-off.

    It comes through Eve, blamed and broken.

    Through Mary, mocked and misunderstood.

    Through the ones who stayed when the strong ran off.

    This isn’t just theology. This is legacy.

    This is the reversal of silence.

    This is what it looks like when God rewrites the narrative.

    And that, my friends, is the Wonder Twins of Redemption—

    Two women. One garden. One tomb.

    Both witnesses to a God who trusted them more than the men ever did.

    💥 Saint Dirty Face Closer:

    “Your faith isn’t clean—and that’s exactly why it’s real. Redemption isn’t about reputation. It’s about who stayed.”