[OLD REGGIE]

You assert that divinity is necessary for a human being to be perfect. I don't see why.

Not at all. I assert there was only one born perfect and that was Jesus. (We aren't going to be forced to post the "no not one" Scriptures one more time are we?)

Every one of us has the opportunity to become a perfect sinless human. This doesn't make us divine. I don't know how much more simply I can express this.

By golly, you've finally got it. To become perfect. Wow, it took a while.

[SoothingDave]

I assert there was only one born perfect and that was Jesus.

By golly, you've finally got it. To become perfect.

So it's a question of timing?

If God acts on you after you are born, in a completely gratuitous way to rescue you from sin, that does not make you divine, though you are a human whose soul is made perfect.

On the other hand, if God acts on Mary before she is born, in a completely gratuitous way to resuce her from sin, that makes her divine?

SD