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To: wagglebee; Forest Keeper; kosta50; xzins
What egg? For lack of a better term, this was a "one time event" and we don't have the foggiest idea how it happened.

I would have to agree with wagglebee on this although not the Catholic idea. The mechanics of the divine conception can't be determine. All we know is that it was not through Joseph (or anyone else for that matter) that it happened. At the same time neither was it an act of Mary. There wasn't anything more special about Mary then there was Joseph.

Mary obviously carried the Lord Jesus to full term. She went to visit Elizabeth. They had to travel to Bethlehem. Matthew and Luke both indicates there was a time delay. There was nothing magical about her womb.

1,631 posted on 12/17/2006 2:39:41 AM PST by HarleyD ("You in Your mercy have led forth the people which You have redeemed." Ex 15:13)
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To: HarleyD

HD, I agree.


1,632 posted on 12/17/2006 3:07:43 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: HarleyD

Would you agree that Mary is the Mother of God?


1,633 posted on 12/17/2006 3:43:27 AM PST by D-fendr
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To: HarleyD; wagglebee; Forest Keeper; xzins; annalex; bornacatholic; Kolokotronis; Agrarian; ...
There was nothing magical about her womb

No, for sure. God doesn't do magic tricks. Incarnation, like Resurrection, was not magic (except for Gnostics), but a miracle, and a mystery we don't understand.

Mary's womb was chosen to contain the limitless and timless God. Where God dwells on earth, in Person, is Holy of Holies, except for Protestants. I guess they are "above" that.

1,636 posted on 12/17/2006 5:46:12 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: HarleyD
There wasn't anything more special about Mary then there was Joseph.

So the Protestant view is that any womb would have done just fine?

1,644 posted on 12/17/2006 12:22:28 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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