[Tao Yin]

Now you are just being silly.

The statement "God is not limited by our intellect" means that we can not explain all of the mysteries of God. For example. I do not understand the mysteries of Communion.

1 Corinthians 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

During communion, I eat bread and I eat the body of the Lord. How can it be both? His body is in, under, and with the bread. How can this be?

I guess if I was Pope, I could come up with a crazy explanation and then curse anyone who doesn't believe. But this is an example of God not being limited by our intellect. I don't understand it and that's OK. Jesus said this is My Body. Who am I to question? It is both.

[adiaireton8]

You need a principled distinction between a mystery that cannot be fully grasped by the human mind, and the proper use of reason in the doing of theology. You originally claimed that reasoning concerning Mary's lack of sin was a case of human reason limiting God. But then you just showed that you want to limit reason only when it comes to theological mysteries; otherwise, you would make all of theology a mystery, and wholly unintelligible. So, in order to justify your claim that theological reasoning regarding Mary's status viz-a-viz sin is human reasoning limiting God, you need to show why you think the case of Mary's status viz-a-viz sin is a mystery, rather than something that can be reasoned about in order to arrive at theological conclusions. Otherwise, your claim that theological reasoning regarding Mary's status viz-a-viz sin is human reasoning limiting God is arbitrary and unprincipled.

-A8

[tort_feasor]

Here is a link to a Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Eucharist.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm#3