Following The Truth: What If Mary Said “No”? (Catholic or Open)

All you did was make opinionated claims, backed by wind, to which you then added attempt at insult.

Did you ever look at the links I provided to the quotes? How about the links to the humorous material another provided?

You wrote:

“All you did was make opinionated claims, backed by wind, to which you then added attempt at insult.”

No, actually I provided the only logically possible explanation.

“Did you ever look at the links I provided to the quotes?”

Maybe I did. Maybve I didn’t.

“How about the links to the humorous material another provided?”

Humorous material would have import in this matter? This was not a discussion about humor.

Humorous material would have import in this matter? This was not a discussion about humor.

When it comes to helicopters, or bags of steel cut oats it does, in the context of the discussions here! lol.

You wrote:

“When it comes to helicopters, or bags of steel cut oats it does, in the context of the discussions here! lol.”

Which just proves what I said: Humorous material would have import in this matter? This was not a discussion about humor.

Thanks for posting this head-scratcher. On the thread I ran across this post: "Well there was Mary’s Immaculate Conception. How would that be if Mary said no?" and that really did make me think (which is hard for me to do). Later, this post - "Questions of "free will" aside, a "no" from Mary would not have prevented the incarnation. God is much, much bigger than that." - at first made my skin crawl for the way it missed the point; no one believes Mary trumps God's will. This was a ridiculous straw man, even by Religion Forum standards.

But then, after holiday drinks (which is easy for me to do), it hit me how the two posts could be related. Of course a 'no' from Mary wouldn't mean God couldn't go through with the incarnation. However, maybe it would mean He wouldn't want to. Perhaps after removing Original Sin from His creation and then posing the question - perhaps a being without Original Sin who turned down God's request would not deserve salvation, nor certainly not the rest of her race who was born into Original Sin. Perhaps one is very, very dependent on the other.

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