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To: stonehouse01; wmfights
Not important?? If she had said no - hadn’t “done the task” - there would be no incarnate Jesus, therefor no salvation. Not important??

God sure would have been stymied, wouldn't He?

Imagine the bind He'd have been in if Mary had said no. That would have ruined everything.

I guess God's not smart enough to have contingency plans, eh?

798 posted on 01/13/2012 10:44:11 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom

“God’s not smart enough to have contigency plans, ...”

It’s not about contingencies. It’s about free will. Eve chose to say yes to Satan thereby closing the gates of heaven.

The only way to cancel out Eve’s mistake and simultaneously preserve mankind’s free will was for Mary to choose with her free will to say yes to God.

Mary’s yes is the perfect parallel to Eve’s no. Any contingency would wipe out our free will. God preserves our free will at all costs, even if we freely choose hell.

That’s why we love the Blessed Mother. If she had said no the gates of heaven would remain closed.


804 posted on 01/13/2012 11:06:28 AM PST by stonehouse01
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