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To: Iscool
What are you talking about Izzie?

The Catholic and Orthodox churches both have said from the beginning that Mary needed a savior, that her Son is/was her savior. How could she be sinless without a savior? The problem that comes up here is how everyone thinks about the salvific power of God as running along our cosmic timeline. It doesn’t. God exists outside of time, Mary was saved by her Son's sacrifice, her Son, who is God

The "splendor of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son".

Mary, though considered unique among saints, was still created by God, by her Son

In short, Mary needed a savior, like all created things, but she received her salvation through the merits of her Son, before time.

51 posted on 10/26/2020 8:50:48 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
In short, Mary needed a savior, like all created things, but she received her salvation through the merits of her Son, before time.

Didn't you just suggest that we not use snippets of Scripture but put it in context?

What you used here ain't even SCRIPTURE!!

112 posted on 10/27/2020 6:10:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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