[viewfromthefrontier]

If there is no difficulty in saying that Eve was created without sin – if there is no risk of turning her into a deity – what is the great difficulty in saying that Mary was created without sin?

I was thinking about this today. Maybe our Protestant friends choose not to believe all Catholicism teaches about Mary but I do not understand the hostility. Won't we all be without sin in heaven? Why couldn't God create a human without original sin to bear His Son? Why wouldn't He? It is in fact appropriate for Him to do so.

[Bullish]

Maybe our Protestant friends choose not to believe all Catholicism teaches about Mary but I do not understand the hostility

Other than the fact that catholicism and all that it professes is a perversion and heresy of Christianity, and that it's filled with paganism and it turns all it's petitioners into lazy mislead sheep, we're fine with it.

[Texas_Guy]

Because Mary is so associated with the Holy Catholic Church, and the only thing Protestants agree on is that they think the church is wrong.

[NorthStarOkie]

<< Why couldn’t God create a human without original sin to bear His Son? >>

When we support doctrine with the argument, “Why couldn’t God...” we might run into some trouble. We could stumble into the abyss along with the Jewish leaders and their “Tradition of the Elders” which Jesus condemned as “teaching for doctrine, the commandments of men.”

Scripture teaches that faith is a work of God. i.e. God creates faith.
If God can create faith in a man, then why can’t he create faith in a baby?

Voice from the back of the room:
Then why can’t God create faith in a dog, or a tree, or a stone? Probably not that hard; he is God, you know.

Just sayin’.