you say God can do anything.....of course He can, but does He????I don’t think so. Did He have to allow Christ to be crucified.....of course not, any shedding of blood by Christ would have sufficed or for that matter, He could have just declared that man was redeemed....no need for all that crown of thorn thing to tske place at all. But God is a jealous God....He is so almighty that only the sacrifice of His begotten Son would appease for the salvation of mankind. Could God have planted the embryo of Jesus in a stained, faulty, sinful container.....I guess He could have, but why would He have insulted His son by doing so when it was very easy for Him to create a PERFECT container. There are those who claim that God created a bunch of relics, old rocks, bones...etc in order to make the earth seem older than it really is........do you think that the creator of the univeerse has nothing better to do than to try to fool you with immaculate conceptions, assumptions and the like?????must make you feel very important
Could God have planted the embryo of Jesus in a stained, faulty, sinful container.....I guess He could have, but why would He have insulted His son by doing so when it was very easy for Him to create a PERFECT container
Like most of the novel Marian doctines, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, is derived at by deducing what would be fitting for God to have done, and presto the guess becomes dogma.
Strange that being born of a virgin, who needed a savior, is an insult by God? But being beaten, scorned, spit on and murdered, shamefully, by sinful men on false charges while being sinless and innocent is not an insult?
Terrycarl,
This whole discussion has nothing to do with me and any measure if self-importance; please don’t go down that road!
I’m glad that we agree that God can do anything. He IS almighty. Period. My question, based on your response is this: who are you (or any of us, but particularly the Roman Catholic Church) to decide what is insulting to Him? We certainly have Scripture to guide us. But nowhere in Scripture does it say that Mary was sinless. But, there are MANY passages that affirm that we are ALL humanity is sinful—except for Jesus.
As for old relics and bones? That’s God’s business as well; all I want to do is to, with His grace and mercy, serve and worship him—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ALONE. Just as we have been commanded to do.
Hoss