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To: Frumanchu
I don't think you completely understand the concept of Immaculate Conception. It has nothing to do with God coming down and having sex with humans. Through an act of grace, God preserved Mary from original sin at her conception.

If you can believe that God placed a fertilized embryo in Mary's womb without using any of her genetic material, why can't you believe that God preserved Mary from original sin?

God bless.

201 posted on 10/08/2002 11:09:26 AM PDT by Gophack
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To: Gophack
I don't think you completely understand the concept of Immaculate Conception. It has nothing to do with God coming down and having sex with humans. Through an act of grace, God preserved Mary from original sin at her conception.

I think you misunderstood my meaning. See my explanation to CG.

If you can believe that God placed a fertilized embryo in Mary's womb without using any of her genetic material, why can't you believe that God preserved Mary from original sin?

Because there is a prior scriptural example of a human being coming from something other than human procreation, namely Adam. There is however, no accounting for a suspension of original sin in any human being (resulting from procreation between two human beings) anywhere else in Scripture.

If God can just selectively suspend original sin in humans, why send His Son to die?

249 posted on 10/08/2002 1:07:08 PM PDT by Frumanchu
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