I find it comical that Catholics will claim that God gave them the ability to reason, logical thought and common sense, and then they can use this reasoning to call God a liar...Correct God's mistakes by using the reasoning God gave them...What a hoot...
The Bible says that the curse has given us a sinful nature- not a propensity for sin, but sinful by default.
Not exactly...We do have a propensity for sin...Babies are not born righteous...Babies have no desire to be obedient to the will of God...Babies are born with a sinful nature...A propensity to sin...
Do we know how that works???
Not necessarily...
Are we supposed to know how that works...
If God thought it was necessary, He would have told us...And maybe He did tell us if we spend enough time in the scripture to find out...
But God said it's so...What human being would dare say it's not...
To call God a liar to justify Mary being sinless is certainly not something I would mess with...
Even their Catholic Jerome had far better sense than that...
This is the single, most salient point in favor of sola scriptura. Imagine this same hubris, but spanning century upon century, formed of whole cloth, by the fiat of human councils, by declaration of their own infallibility, bound in compendiums and given the same weight of authority as the Holy Oracles of the Lord, God Almighty.
Given the bare fact that error must exist, as evidenced in the normal course of human judgment, how can one correct or remove such human error if it is given the same weight as the Divine? It makes no sense at all.
The very first charge of the Church must be to preserve The Message. There can be no higher authority than that we know to be the Holy Word of God. It must be the final arbiter, as it is the only standard that we know to be true.
We do have a propensity for sin...Babies are not born righteous...Babies have no desire to be obedient to the will of God...Babies are born with a sinful nature...A propensity to sin...
I am willing to cede the point. 'Default' was too harsh a word. But whatever we are now, must, by the nature of the curse, be worse than the condition of Adam, who, without the curse, still had the ability to sin, and arguably, the inclination to do so as well.
If God thought it was necessary, He would have told us...And maybe He did tell us if we spend enough time in the scripture to find out...
That is my point in a nutshell. That which we do not know, we do not know, and in such a condition, we would do well to believe in the Word of God.