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To: metmom

No - someone who is sinless doesn’t mean ‘someone who has no choice whether to sin or not’.

The Angel Gabriel was and is sinless. Are you saying that He has no free will?

Christ was and is sinless. Are you saying that He has no free will?

And - ah, Metmom. You’re the one who allowed that God might have coerced Mary into carrying Christ. I just put a name to your sin.


48 posted on 11/30/2020 12:24:46 PM PST by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: agere_contra

How did God *coerce* her?

You guys attribute all kinds of nefarious things to God for deciding how to manage His creation and plan of redemption.

And honestly, God has the RIGHT to use people as HE so chooses.

HE is the creator. Everything is His and even our very life is from Him. He is more than free to do with people as He chooses whether they like it of not.

Catholic teaching that Mary was kept from sin does indeed remove the choice from her. It means she was prevented from it. IOW, she didn’t have a choice in the matter.


56 posted on 11/30/2020 12:35:25 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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