Can a healthy tree not bear bad fruit?

@josephw said
It is you that's dodging. You understand perfectly well what the metaphors are about in the verses you referenced.

And I know perfectly well that you're looking for ways to justify your resistance to the truth.

Spiritually speaking no one has ever measured up to the standard of perfection called for by the law. You know that. One little lie is all it takes to prove that ...[text shortened]... bad tree cannot produce good fruit no matter how far you try to stretch the metaphor to disprove it.

Your words are motes in the Light of the One.

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