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To: HerrBlucher

Well .. that was a physical imposibility. Mary’s parents would have been required to be “without sin” also .. and there was no provision for that before Jesus.

Sorry, no one was “sinless” after the “fall” of Adam and Eve. It was only changed after the death of Jesus.

You can refuse to believe the truth .. but maybe you need to search the scriptures for yourself .. instead of blindly believing something that was impossible to be true.

God didn’t require Mary to be “sinless” .. because God already knew that condition was impossible. She was a virgin and she loved God .. and those were the most important things.

You need to study the separation of the spirit and the flesh. Try reading an Amplified Bible - for starters. It is the most literal Greek translation of the Bible .. and it makes the Bible come alve.


12 posted on 04/01/2013 11:08:43 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth" (in spite of BO))
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To: CyberAnt
instead of blindly believing something that was impossible to be true.

All things are possible with God. But you knew that.

"The term conception does not mean the active or generative conception by her parents. Her body was formed in the womb of the mother, and the father had the usual share in its formation. The question does not concern the immaculateness of the generative activity of her parents. Neither does it concern the passive conception absolutely and simply (conceptio seminis carnis, inchoata), which, according to the order of nature, precedes the infusion of the rational soul. The person is truly conceived when the soul is created and infused into the body. Mary was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin at the first moment of her animation, and sanctifying grace was given to her before sin could have taken effect in her soul. "...was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin..." "The formal active essence of original sin was not removed from her soul, as it is removed from others by baptism; it was excluded, it never was in her soul. Simultaneously with the exclusion of sin. The state of original sanctity, innocence, and justice, as opposed to original sin, was conferred upon her, by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam — from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death. "...by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race."

The immunity from original sin was given to Mary by a singular exemption from a universal law through the same merits of Christ, by which other men are cleansed from sin by baptism. Mary needed the redeeming Saviour to obtain this exemption, and to be delivered from the universal necessity and debt (debitum) of being subject to original sin. The person of Mary, in consequence of her origin from Adam, should have been subject to sin, but, being the new Eve who was to be the mother of the new Adam, she was, by the eternal counsel of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. Her redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. He is a greater redeemer who pays the debt that it may not be incurred than he who pays after it has fallen on the debtor.

13 posted on 04/01/2013 11:18:32 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: CyberAnt

Read about Joachim and Anne. They went to the temple and prayed and were overcome by the Holy Spirit, and thus Mary was conceived.

Please, please, do some more digging and don’t believe those pamplets you might have been inundated with.

Read about Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary, please!


16 posted on 04/01/2013 4:26:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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