[Elsie]

Why will you not accept that God *could* have Forgiven Mary in advance?

Oh; I can 'accept' that; but I cannot accept the implication that while God COULD do such a thing; there is ZERO evidence that HE did!

Catholicism is RIFE with things that God 'could' have done; while revealing nothing more than a Calvinosaurus discovery approach to how it 'could' have happened..

[MHGinTN]

How very Hobbsian of you!