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To: Arkansas Toothpick
If Mary was sinless, wouldn’t that also require HER mother to be sinless? And HER mother?

No. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary has nothing to do with biology. It does not mean that she was conceived miraculously in the physical sense. She was normally conceived and born of her parents, Joachim and Ann. But in her very conception her soul was preserved immaculate in the sense that she inherited no stain of original sin, derived from our first parents.

33 posted on 12/12/2014 4:13:31 AM PST by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

“No. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary has nothing to do with biology.”

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Or the New Testament. It isn’t there.
Or the Old Testament. It isn’t there.
Or the Apostle’s tradition. Never recorded.
Or in any artworks before 100 ad. None.
Or in any Christian writings before 100 ad. Zip.
Or reported in any secular writings before 100 ad. Zilch.
Or in any UFO sighting reports.

It is a doctrine without basis - except to make dear Mary into a demigod - more than a human. Slightly less than full godhood.


40 posted on 12/12/2014 6:59:50 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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