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To: JHavard
I'm not guessing. It is the consistent teaching of the Church that Jesus was truly Mary's Son. If He did not get His humanity from His mother, where woudl He have gotten it?

The same place Adam got his, from being made of the earth, and his earthly body and human spirit telling him what it wants to eat.

This Jesus is then totally unrelated to any other human being.

So how, exactly, does His Sacrifice redeem us, those of us related to Adam and Eve? How can He represent us, How can He be the bridge between broken man and righteous Creator, if He is not one of us?

I'm continually amazed at how little you people have thought through the implications of what you say.

Adam had no mother, and he was the first to sin, so how did his sin get passed on to him?

Adam and Eve had no original sin. Nothing got "passed on" to them. They committed the original sin of disobeying God. This deprived them of fellowship with God and this lack of fellowship has been passed on to all of us from them.

SD

48,658 posted on 04/25/2003 1:35:05 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
This Jesus is then totally unrelated to any other human being.

You said that, I didn't. Mary gave Him his humanness, and in that sense he became related to all of us, and Adam as well.

So how, exactly, does His Sacrifice redeem us, those of us related to Adam and Eve? How can He represent us, How can He be the bridge between broken man and righteous Creator, if He is not one of us?

By not allowing the lust of his human body to control His actions as Adam and all mankind since have failed to do.

I'm continually amazed at how little you people have thought through the implications of what you say.

It's good that we keep you in total amazement Dave. Lol

Adam and Eve had no original sin. Nothing got "passed on" to them. They committed the original sin of disobeying God. This deprived them of fellowship with God and this lack of fellowship has been passed on to all of us from them.

So we aren't capable of committing sin unless it's been passed on to us from someone else, is that right?

If it weren't for Adam, I'd have been perfect. YehhhhRight Lol

JH :-)

48,675 posted on 04/25/2003 2:03:56 PM PDT by JHavard (Train up a child in mans tradition: and when he is old, he’ll think it’s the truth.)
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