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To: count-your-change; annalex
"It is this I believe. Does that satisfy your curiosity?"

Yes it does; did Christ inherit "an inclination toward sin" from his mother? If not, why not?

6,836 posted on 01/07/2011 10:23:42 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis; count-your-change; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...
Yes it does; did Christ inherit "an inclination toward sin" from his mother? If not, why not?

No. Because the sin nature comes through the Father and since Jesus father was God, He had no sin nature.

That's why it was not necessary for Mary to be sinless.

6,838 posted on 01/07/2011 10:30:03 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Kolokotronis

Mary’s situation was obviously unique as Luke 1:35 says that Holy Spirit would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow her, the child being thus holy and called Son of God.

Humans inherit from their maternal parent too but as the angel said, Holy Spirit was going to operate in a very special way, it would overshadow her, so that the child born by God’s power, God’s Son, would be holy, without sin, without that sinful inclination.

Thus Mary needed no cleansing from sin and no such cleansing or immaculateness is ever attributed to her in Scripture.

As Paul said, ‘death spread to all men (humans)’ Mary grew old and died as a descendant of Adam.


6,844 posted on 01/07/2011 11:23:07 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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