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To: bdeaner
Exemption from original sin must have been an extraordinary grace because other human beings, except Christ, are conceived with sin on their souls. However, this does not mean that Mary was necessarily exempt from the universal necessity or need of being subject to sin, i.e., "the debt of original sin," where two kinds of debt are to be distinguished. The remote debt (necessity) simply means membership in the human race, derived by ordinary propagation from sexual intercourse. Christ, other than Mary, did not incur this necessity. Mary did, and therefore had to be redeemed. The proximate debt involves inclusion in the willful act by which Adam, as representative of mankind, sinned and thereby implicated human nature in his fall. As stated, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception certainly includes the Blessed Virgin in the remote debt, and probably also in the proximate necessity of contracting original sin, which would have infected Mary's soul had she not been miraculously preserved.

Nice story...It reads like a novel but it's no more than a fairy tale...

It's like the Three Musketeers, or Conan the Barbarian, or the Never Ending Story...

And we know that because that's what God said when He said ALL have sinned and come short of the Glory of God...

The scriptures did not give any religion or any person the authority to add to, subtract from or change the scripture...It's anathema to God...

152 posted on 07/20/2009 1:21:29 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
Nice story...It reads like a novel but it's no more than a fairy tale...

Another fallacious argument lacking logical validity. This time, you argument fails because it falls prey to the fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii) -- that is, the proposition to be proved is assumed in your premises. Nice try, but you're shooting blanks.
155 posted on 07/20/2009 1:28:52 PM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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