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To: F16Fighter
Our Lord Jesus Christ was indeed conceived through the Holy Ghost. However, you are confused in regards to the Immaculate Conception, for she is the Blessed Virgin Mary. I know you were trying not to offend by your words, but you must have known that they are theologically-controversial.

From very early in the Christian era, believers have held that Our Lord took His flesh of the Virgin Mary. If He did, and Mary's flesh felt the corruption of sin, what does this say about Our Lord? Of course, He has the power to preserve Himself, but that's not the way He chose to come into the world. For if the written word of God, the tablets from Mt. Sinai, had to be held in a vessel made of pure materials, then why would God send His Word, Jesus Christ, to be held in an impure vessel?

57 posted on 12/21/2005 9:25:25 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480
"From very early in the Christian era, believers have held that Our Lord took His flesh of the Virgin Mary. If He did, and Mary's flesh felt the corruption of sin, what does this say about Our Lord?...

[And] why would God send His Word, Jesus Christ, to be held in an impure vessel?"

Doesn't Scripture tell us ALL who came after Adam and Eve are tainted with "original sin"? Even now...

Yes, Christ was indeed born of the flesh virgin Mary -- though NOT "conceived" through sin.

But what this says about Our Lord was that He is a man as well as God, as only a sinless man of the flesh could redeem us.

We can not know all the mysteries of God, but one can only refer to Scripture for support -- rather than "church tradition."

60 posted on 12/22/2005 6:15:14 AM PST by F16Fighter
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