If Mary was sanctified after animation, then she whom God was raising to be Satan's destroyer, was, at least for a very brief time, subject to the influence of the Prince of Darkness through contact with original sin. This line of reasoning was based on a time sequence. Blessed John Duns Scotus explained that the time element was not the type of order in question, but rather the order of nature. Because physical generation precedes sanctification by God's grace, Mary was an heir to the debt of Adam before being made a child of God.
1 posted on
09/11/2007 5:13:39 AM PDT by
stfassisi
To: AveMaria1; Friar Roderic Mary; fr maximilian mary; Kolokotronis; Carolina; sandyeggo; Salvation; ...
2 posted on
09/11/2007 5:16:29 AM PDT by
stfassisi
("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
To: stfassisi
One SCOTUS that isn’t corrupt, liberal, and carried away with itself! :^)
3 posted on
09/11/2007 5:36:22 AM PDT by
dangus
To: stfassisi
Patron saint of constitutional lawyers?
4 posted on
09/11/2007 5:37:17 AM PDT by
dangus
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