You mean the burden is on God...I didn't say it...I'm just repeating what he said...
I figured out long ago that I don't have to understand everything in the bible...But I sure better believe it...
Without believing it, one will be stuck sucking on a baby bottle for the rest of his life...
The statement “All have sinned” was made in a context where Mary was not the topic. The author had no intention of addressing exceptions. He wasn’t writing ABOUT Mary; he wasn’t writing TO Mary. He was writing to an audience that WAS 100% sinners. And if he was thinking of future generations of Christians at all, he would know that 100% of THEM would be sinners.
Infants and mentally disabled people are incapable of sin. On the basis of a single verse of Scripture, ripped out of context, you take the repulsive, preposterous position that they are sinners.
Do you hold that JESUS is a sinner?
Using a single sentence of ANY document, including Scripture, to “answer” a question or to “prove” a point that the author wasn’t even discussing or even thinking about, is to twist, exploit, and misuse that document.
There’s a long history of that kind of “interpretation” of Scripture. For example:
Several authors of Scripture mention slaves or slavery, without ever discussing its morality. They simply mention it as they would any social reality. In their time, the morality of slavery was not being discussed or debated by anybody. In later centuries, these verses were twisted and exploited as “teaching” that slavery is APPROVED BY GOD.
Before you can know what a verse in Scripture means, you must know what the HUMAN AUTHOR was discussing, and what he was not even thinking about. One must know that before leaping to conclusions about what the Holy Spirit intended to teach by that passage.
It is NEVER a valid use of Scripture to rip a word, phrase, or sentence from its context, as though it was intended to answer questions the author was not even thinking about.
Hey!
That is MormonDude's response sometimes!!
Only it goes...
I don't understand everything about Mormonism; but, but golly, I believe it!