Coul it be that the instant that God placed Jesus in Her womb, she was instantly sinless. I mean if one understands the gestational process, the child is making their own body of organs and tissues, but shedding cells into the amniotic fluid and these taken away via the umbilicus via adsorption. Mary would have been ‘under the blood of the Savior’ while Jesus was gestating in her womb.
And one more thing: every child that a woman gestates leaves behnd in her uterine tissue cells that remain alive for the rest of her life. This is a strange discovery made by embryologists. If anyone wants to have more on this, I could find the source, I used it when writing the little booklet ‘America, We Need To Talk’ regarding stem cells and cloning, etc.
I have read through your comments with extreme interest. The postulation that some of Jesus’ DNA in the form of embryonic stem cells remained with her for her entire life is fascinating.
I also appreciate that you see the underlying vitriol and hatred that runs through most of these types of threads and feel the need to defend Catholics even though you are not one.
As you can no doubt see, the thread was relatively thoughtful and intelligent until certain ones are pinged and show up with their stock in trade comments made on every thread regarding Catholicism.
As for when Mary was saved from her sin, your theory is an interesting one, but the Church has contemplated this for many years and Mary, herself proclaimed her Immaculate Conception, so the matter is settled for me.
What intrigues me about the stem cells is that this would certainly buttress the belief that Mary remained a virgin her entire life. What human could ever reside in the womb where the Lord God had?
Again, thank you for a very interesting conversation and the respect you showed in your posts.