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To: Colonel_Flagg
Mary refers to herself as the 'handmaid of the Lord' (Luke 1:38). Were Mary sinless, she would not be the Lord's handmaid; she would be His equal. Being human, that is not possible.

Where do you get the idea that "sinless" equals "divine"? Adam and Eve were created sinless and remained so until the Fall -- does this mean they were equal to God until then and only then became human?

653 posted on 12/06/2010 12:03:25 PM PST by maryz
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To: maryz; Colonel_Flagg; Quix; metmom; RnMomof7; presently no screen name; 1000 silverlings
Where do you get the idea that "sinless" equals "divine"? Adam and Eve were created sinless and remained so until the Fall -- does this mean they were equal to God until then and only then became human?

You've just proven Col._Flagg's point. Adam and Eve DID sin, therefore they were not born without a sin nature. And they eventually acted according to that nature.

Just like Mary and the rest of humanity are born with a sin nature and succumb to that nature by sinning.

Further, it is basic Christianity 101 that there has only been one person born without a sin nature and who committed no sins -- Jesus Christ.

" For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -- 2 Corinthians 5:21

Where does the word of God say that about Mary? Rome turns a simple Jewish girl who was blessed by God to carry the Christ child to term into a brazen, superstitious, anti-Scriptural, truth-denying blasphemy.

Repent of it.

795 posted on 12/06/2010 7:30:28 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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