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To: LukeL

You didn’t answer my question. Do you think the Lord would allow Himself, the Holy of Holies, to be born of someone sinful, someone who had lied, fornicated, stolen or killed? God hates sin. Its preposterous to even consider.

Here, it I post the following from the Catholic Answers website...

Full Question:
I don’t see why Mary had to be sinless to pass on a sinless human nature to Christ.

Answer

Mary’s sinlessness derives from the fact that she is the human vessel through which God himself became man. It was from her flesh that Christ received his human nature.

Because Christ is God, it’s fitting that he took his humanity from a sinless human nature, although it wasn’t strictly necessary that his mother be sinless for him to receive from her a sinless human nature. God could have done it another way.

Nor was it absolutely necessary that Christ be born of a virgin. He could have come into the world via the normal route. The fact that Mary was a virgin and conceived Christ isn’t so much a statement about Mary as it is about the dignity of the child she carried in her womb.

Likewise (and ultimately) the Immaculate Conception isn’t so much a statement about the dignity of Mary as it is a statement about the dignity of her son. It points out who he is—God incarnate.


117 posted on 03/13/2013 9:33:43 AM PDT by diamond6 (Need scientific proof of God? Check out: http://www.magisreasonfaith.org/)
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To: diamond6
For some things I rely on the fact that it will be revealed to me in Heaven. These are things which do not detract from who Christ is, or what he accomplished in the cross. To create dogma out of it is a wase of time at best, and a recipe for division at the worst.

I think about the 5 points of Calvinism a lot, but it doesn't matter as the Bible clearly teaches those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

120 posted on 03/13/2013 9:38:43 AM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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