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To: metmom
"If Mary was prevented from sinning, then she had no free will in the matter."

Yes, that wold be true --- but only only if we were talking about Actual Sin, the sin one commits.

It is not true of Original Sin, the sin one inherits.

At the beginning of their lives, both Adam and Eve, in Eden, enjoyed Original Innocence, Original Justice, Original Blessing, Original Grace. Despite all this, they sinned. They still had free will. So would Mary have had free will. Otherwise we are all nothing but ventriloquists' dummies, sock-puppets, androids, and this world is the Matrix and whole shebang is a farce.

562 posted on 12/11/2014 1:40:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("The Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth." - 1 Timothy 3:15)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Otherwise we are all nothing but ventriloquists' dummies, sock-puppets, androids, and this world is the Matrix and whole shebang is a farce.

Scripture tells us that we are slaves to sin.

We don't have free will.

653 posted on 12/11/2014 3:32:46 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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