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To: LiteKeeper

That’s funny, my Bible says different. All men suffered because of the actions of Eve and all men are redeemed because of the actions of Mary. Think of these women as the fulcrum, Adam sinned upon being tempted by Eve. Jesus became man because of the obedience of Mary. The main characters, no, central to the plan, without a doubt.

Eve and Mary cannot be separated from the equation. God made them a part of it, not the Church. Just as Adam was a type of who was to come, so was Eve. Adam and Eve were created without sin and by their actions sin came and with it death, disease and suffering. Jesus and Mary were sinless and by their actions came redemption and life. The verses you cite were specifically speaking of Jesus. Not including Mary or Eve did not mean that they were not a part of it.

Resistance takes so much more energy than acceptance. Protestants must cut from the Biblical story of redemption so much to exclude Mary. Just because she has only a small mention in the Bible, and just because the Bible doesn’t spell it out for them, they discount her as just some woman God chose to bear His Son, nothing more, an incubator as it were.

I would never, never claim that it was anyone other than Jesus who paid the price for our salvation. But, to pretend that Mary was not an essential part of it is wrong, and to act as if God would be offended by our love of her is wrong.


168 posted on 01/07/2009 7:41:52 AM PST by Jvette
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To: Jvette
All men suffered because of the actions of Eve and all men are redeemed because of the actions of Mary.

Book, chapter, and verses please.

170 posted on 01/07/2009 8:51:27 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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