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To: OLD REGGIE; narses; dsc; Cronos; Mad Dawg
Sorry, not right at all. God did not force Mary against her will to become the Mother of His Son. That would be impossible. She gave her loving consent to His wonderful plan of salvation, told to her by the angel Gabriel. Full of faith and totally in love with God, she conceived Jesus in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit. There was nothing ‘forced” about it.

http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/maryd4.htm

excerpt:
Picture the scene of the Annunciation. God proposes the mystery of the Incarnation which He will accomplish in the Virgin Mary—but not until she has given her consent. The accomplishment of the mystery is held in suspense awaiting the free acceptance of Mary. At this moment Mary represents all of us in her own person; it is as if God is waiting for the response of the humanity to which He longs to unite Himself. What a solemn moment this is! For upon this moment depends the decision of the most vital mystery of Christianity.

But see how Mary gives her answer. Full of faith and confidence in the heavenly message and entirely submissive to the Divine Will, the Virgin Mary replies in a spirit of complete and absolute abandonment: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to Thy word.” This “Fiat” is Mary's consent to the Divine Plan of Redemption. It is like an echo of the “Fiat” of the creation of the world. But this is a new world, a world infinitely superior, a world of grace, which God will cause to arise in consequence of Mary's consent, for at that moment the Divine Word, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, becomes Man in Mary: “And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us.”

2,234 posted on 07/26/2010 12:38:50 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: Deo volente
Sorry, not right at all. God did not force Mary against her will to become the Mother of His Son. That would be impossible. She gave her loving consent to His wonderful plan of salvation, told to her by the angel Gabriel. Full of faith and totally in love with God, she conceived Jesus in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit. There was nothing ‘forced” about it.

http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/maryd4.htm

excerpt:
Picture the scene of the Annunciation. God proposes the mystery of the Incarnation which He will accomplish in the Virgin Mary—but not until she has given her consent. The accomplishment of the mystery is held in suspense awaiting the free acceptance of Mary. At this moment Mary represents all of us in her own person; it is as if God is waiting for the response of the humanity to which He longs to unite Himself. What a solemn moment this is! For upon this moment depends the decision of the most vital mystery of Christianity.

But see how Mary gives her answer. Full of faith and confidence in the heavenly message and entirely submissive to the Divine Will, the Virgin Mary replies in a spirit of complete and absolute abandonment: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to Thy word.” This “Fiat” is Mary's consent to the Divine Plan of Redemption. It is like an echo of the “Fiat” of the creation of the world. But this is a new world, a world infinitely superior, a world of grace, which God will cause to arise in consequence of Mary's consent, for at that moment the Divine Word, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, becomes Man in Mary: “And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us.”

Wanna try something new, interesting and enlightening?

Rather than resort to apologetics for your information go to the source. SCRIPTURE

2,242 posted on 07/26/2010 1:17:42 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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