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To: ADSUM
This does not prove that Mary had sinned.

Mary would do this a the custom of Jews of that day after birth of a child. This was considered unclean, but giving birth is not a sin.

This was not a custom! This was keeping in accordance with the Law. The Word calls it a sin offering. Plain and simple.

from the pulpit commentary....Two things are noticeable here: first, that the burnt offering, symbolizing self-devotion, is far more costly and important than the sin offering, which had not to be offered for any individual personal sin, but only for human sin, "which had been indirectly manifested in her bodily condition"

Mary may not have been informed that she was free from sin (I do not know).

Good grief.

Mary may not want to disclose her special status (Again, I do not know).

Good grief Anxiety? All humans have anxiety. Why would that be a sin?

Worry.

Nice try. But you are really stretching it!

I give you proof you asked for you ignore the facts....and you say I'm stretching it. You're ignoring it.

229 posted on 06/13/2015 8:48:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

I am not ignoring it. I am disagreeing with your analysis and giving you an alternate reason why she did not sin.

I will defer to someone that has more knowledge.

Why would God allow His son be born to a woman that had the stain of original sin or actual sin? Reason says he wouldn’t.

Just like He spared her of the pain of child birth, he granted her a special status of not having sin, as she was humbly obedient to the God.


230 posted on 06/13/2015 9:21:14 PM PDT by ADSUM
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