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To: SoothingDave
I have to go now. I want to know more about this "divine uncreated god "stuff though. I'll try to get back here on my lunch break.
48,449 posted on 04/25/2003 7:47:04 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg
I want to know more about this "divine uncreated god "stuff though.

What do you want to know? The basic point that keeps coming up is that certain non-Catholics keep asserting that a human being that is perfect must be a god.

Divinity and humanity are like dogs and cats. They are two different kinds of being. You can bathe your mutt and wash his fur and put pretty bows in it and feed it fish and train him to chase mice, but he will never be a cat.

Likewise, the perfected human, the human who is totally free from sin and perfect in every way, remains a human and not a god.

Everything, everything, that is said about Mary needs to be understood in this light. Mary is a human. We never assert anything other than that.

She was given special favor, all generations will call her blessed. We even believe that she was spared rotting in the grave. But this makes her a perfect human. Not a god.

In heaven, she has a special role. This is to help her Son distribute His graces.

This does not make her a god.

It makes her a highly favored, perfect, human being with a special role.

That is all. Those who like to make cracks about her being made part of a "quadiny" need to explain logically how what I have said changes Mary from a human into a divine being.

If you go to heaven and God assigns you the role of giving out the Hershey bars at snack time, does that make you divine? Does that make you the source of the Hershey bars?

Or does it just mean that God gave you, a human whom He has perfected in His Blood, a job to do?

SD

48,452 posted on 04/25/2003 7:56:09 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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