God paying Himself back? Strange concept.
Not for anyone familiar with the concept of the Redemption.
It is the unmistakable teaching of Revelation that Christ offered to His heavenly Father His labours, sufferings, and death as an atonement for our sins.Just as the merits of Christ's Passion bring about the redemption of the human race, so do Christ's merits "remit the temporal punishment due to sin that has been forgiven" (indulgences).
>>Strange concept.
As a conservative Protestant, all this Mary stuff is pretty alarming.
If Jesus Christ had to be born to a sinless mother, would our salvation have been lost if Mary had sinned? On a fundamental level, can't the perfection of God overpower the sinfulness of man? God can and does have contact with His sinful creation and not lose His perfection. In fact, His perfection overpowers our sinfulness. After all, isn't this foundationally the Gospel? Why would God Incarnate have His perfection tarnished by being born to a sinful woman? I have never understood this argument.