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To: dartuser

And you’re speaking of the physical regarding gender, and extrapolating a peculiar belief regarding original sin to support an extra-Biblical belief.

A rib contains chromosomes too, you know.

Jesus Christ was born to Mary and to his legal father Joseph as a fulfillment of prophecy. There is no plausible way to elevate Mary, a sinner just as we all are sinners, to some extraordinary level of sinlessness within the context of the Bible. She was favored of God, that she was told and we are told. Her descent was not without the taint of sin, however.

All means all. Gender has nothing to do with it. For all you and I know, Mary may have carried the baby Jesus to term without being His natural mother. That’s possible with mere mortals now, no reason it wasn’t possible then as well.


120 posted on 08/15/2010 8:16:46 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Jesus Christ was born to Mary and to his legal father Joseph as a fulfillment of prophecy. There is no plausible way to elevate Mary, a sinner just as we all are sinners, to some extraordinary level of sinlessness within the context of the Bible. She was favored of God, that she was told and we are told. Her descent was not without the taint of sin, however.

Youre preaching to the choir ... I never said Mary was sinless ... I agree with Rom 6.23 that "all" means all. What I am saying is that Jesus was fully human because he was born of Mary ... but He didnt have the sin nature because he was not conceived through relations with a man and its the man that transmits the sin nature.

130 posted on 08/15/2010 8:29:10 PM PDT by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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