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To: metmom

>>If God could have simply absolved Mary’s sin, He could do it for everyone. Then there would have been no need for Jesus to die.<<

Not quite. He needed a sinless vessel to bring the Savior. And Jesus’ life and death were much more than a simple exemption for Original Sin (although that was an important aspect). Jesus HAD to be born of a virgin, live as a man, then die as a martyr for God to save all of mankind.

Else nothing else would make sense.

Linear logic doesn’t apply in the case of the Divine Tapestry.


135 posted on 12/05/2010 7:26:26 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Lt. Drebin: Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.)
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To: freedumb2003
Not quite. He needed a sinless vessel to bring the Savior.

No, He didn't. Show us where it says that in Scripture.

Do you have any idea WHY Jesus was sinless?

Jesus HAD to be born of a virgin, live as a man, then die as a martyr for God to save all of mankind.

Yes, yes, and no.

He had to do the first two to fulfill prophecy, but he did not die as a martyr. He died as a sacrifice to redeem mankind from the penalty of sin.

198 posted on 12/05/2010 8:01:03 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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