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To: xzins; P-Marlowe; Kolokotronis; annalex
The point remains for those who do accept that she was born without sin and that she did not sin

I never said we believe that she sinned. She was born fully human, like any one of us, with fallen human nature that desires (i.e. has propensity) to sin.

But we hold that she never did sin, not because she was somehow superhuman, but because she was bale to love God more completely than others. Which is why God, in his foreknowledge, chose her, as the suitable immaculate vessel, and a blameless Mother of God.

Because our nature is mortal, as a result of ancestral sin of Adam and Eve, Mary died like any other human being, even if she did not sin. Her nature was still mortal.

The assumption is Catholic teaching, therefore, it is consistent

Not really, not Roman Catholic. As far as we can go back into Orthodoxy, the East always mantained that she died and was assumed into heaven on the third day. The Catholic Church did not make it a dogma until 1950.

803 posted on 12/08/2006 9:34:07 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; xzins; P-Marlowe; Kolokotronis
superhuman

We also don't teach that Our Lady was superhuman. Immaculate Conception (celebrated today!) means that the same condition we gain at baptism -- freedom from original sin, -- she gained at her conception.

810 posted on 12/08/2006 9:49:16 AM PST by annalex
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