I’ll toss this in, for contemplation: recent findings regarding the process of pregnancy and the after effects indicate that the Mother retains cells from the visit to her womb by each of her children, in the form of placental cells which reside in her tissues; those baby-made placental cells, to Mary the Mother of Jesus, were literally ‘God with her’ all the days of her life; would it make sense to believe God would allow those divine cells to suffer corruption? There is another side to that coin also, but I wouldn’t even want to go there ... And I realize that may open a whole can of tangled worms, but there it is, science invading the areas of faith. There are so many questions to ask when we get to the ‘other side’ ... I wonder if we will remember any of them as we are lead across the void by His loving Presence?
What an interesting line of thinking.