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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m still learning about the faith. My understanding is that Satan used woman (Eve) to lure Adam into sinning. God used woman (Mary) to redeem man.


42 posted on 05/26/2013 9:22:41 AM PDT by timeflies
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To: timeflies
That's an excellent insight! And in the broader sense, we all may have some role in History of God's redemptive Love, in that we are co-operators with Christ in each others' salvation.

We are also models for each other, and Mary a very good model indeed --- much better than Eve, whose disobedience Mary helped to overturn with her obedience. Mary didn't say a lot, but one of the biggies was, "Do whatever He tells you."

All of us can join Mary in that.

2 Thessalonians 3:9
We did this in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.

45 posted on 05/26/2013 9:44:23 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all.)
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To: timeflies; Mrs. Don-o
My understanding is that Satan used woman (Eve) to lure Adam into sinning. God used woman (Mary) to redeem man.

Yes, that is correct. You can find the scriptural basis for that teaching Here.

48 posted on 05/26/2013 9:52:25 AM PDT by NYer ( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
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To: timeflies

No Christ redeemed us. That is repeated over and over in scripture. He reversed both Adam and Eve’s actions...not just Eve.

Christ’s redemption is on the basis of his blood sacrifice. He died in place of us. No one in the history of the world will ever do the same.

There is only one redeemer. Anyone claiming to be Co redemptrix is a false God.


54 posted on 05/26/2013 12:15:58 PM PDT by what's up
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