Agreed - As the bible says, A bad tree cannot bear good fruit, and Jesus is the fruit of her womb...
honestly, this doesn't make sense. If that is the issue, a bad tree can't bear good fruit, the immaculate conception doesn't solve it, it only pushes the problem back a generation. If Mary can't bear Jesus if she has sin because she would be a bad tree, how does it make sense that her mom, also a bad tree, could bear a sinless child? If that required a miracle, what prevents God from doing the miracle for the conception of Jesus?Thaddeus73 said:
Agreed - As the bible says, A bad tree cannot bear good fruit, and Jesus is the fruit of her womb...
Mary absolutely needed a savior and that's precisely what the declared dogma says.TXaggiesTX said:
- Mary calls God her savior. Why would a sinless person need a savior? (Luke 2:47)
- None righteous, not one (Romans 3:10). All have sinned (Romans 3:23).
- Jesus calls John the Baptist the greatest person born of woman to ever live (Matthew 11:11).
- The idea that Mary led a sinless life has never made sense to me theologically. If there was another person who lived a sinless life, why did Jesus have to do it? and wouldn't that diminish his doing it? Jesus was only able to be a substitute for our sins because he lived the life we should have lived. 2 Cor. 5:21 - For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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She was proleptically saved.Quote:
"in the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin"
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It confounds our Protestant brethren that we should have such devotion to Our Lady, though I am always perplexed at their skepticism of Marian theology.
To suggest that God would not shield the mother of His son from original sin, and wouldn't construct the whole of time and reality to accommodate an outpouring of the graces won by the Resurrection on to Mary before she or Christ were ever born seems, to me, to say you'd expect God to leave a job half done.
Mary had a savior from before she was born and remained sinless. She was given grace to be saved from sin. This in no way means she didn't need a savior.TXaggiesTX said:
- Mary calls God her savior. Why would a sinless person need a savior? (Luke 2:47)
- None righteous, not one (Romans 3:10). All have sinned (Romans 3:23).
- Jesus calls John the Baptist the greatest person born of woman to ever live (Matthew 11:11).
- The idea that Mary led a sinless life has never made sense to me theologically. If there was another person who lived a sinless life, why did Jesus have to do it? and wouldn't that diminish his doing it? Jesus was only able to be a substitute for our sins because he lived the life we should have lived. 2 Cor. 5:21 - For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
On December 8, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a holy day of obligation. The object of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is how Mary, as a creature, experiences the redemption wrought by her Divine Son.
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Ding Ding DingTXaggiesTX said:
The idea that Mary led a sinless life has never made sense to me theologically. If there was another person who lived a sinless life, why did Jesus have to do it? and wouldn't that diminish his doing it?
10andBOUNCE said:Ding Ding DingTXaggiesTX said:
The idea that Mary led a sinless life has never made sense to me theologically. If there was another person who lived a sinless life, why did Jesus have to do it? and wouldn't that diminish his doing it?
If Mary or someone else was perfect, they in theory could have also died for our sins? Is that the implication?
Sorry, I don't get it.chimpanzee said:
To suggest that God would not shield the mother of His son from original sin, and wouldn't construct the whole of time and reality to accommodate an outpouring of the graces won by the Resurrection on to Mary before she or Christ were ever born seems, to me, to say you'd expect God to leave a job half done.
Pro Sandy said:honestly, this doesn't make sense. If that is the issue, a bad tree can't bear good fruit, the immaculate conception doesn't solve it, it only pushes the problem back a generation. If Mary can't bear Jesus if she has sin because she would be a bad tree, how does it make sense that her mom, also a bad tree, could bear a sinless child? If that required a miracle, what prevents God from doing the miracle for the conception of Jesus?Thaddeus73 said:
Agreed - As the bible says, A bad tree cannot bear good fruit, and Jesus is the fruit of her womb...
How would we know Eve was a virgin in Genesis 3? After Eve is created in Genesis 2, it says "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." We have always assumed that a husband and wife being of one flesh includes sex. Why would we assume Adam and Eve don't have sex until after the fall?Thaddeus73 said:
. Evil entered through Eve while she was still a virgin; so too salvation entered through Mary while she was still a virgin.
They didn't even know they were naked until after they ate the forbidden fruit.Pro Sandy said:How would we know Eve was a virgin in Genesis 3? After Eve is created in Genesis 2, it says "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." We have always assumed that a husband and wife being of one flesh includes sex. Why would we assume Adam and Eve don't have sex until after the fall?Thaddeus73 said:
. Evil entered through Eve while she was still a virgin; so too salvation entered through Mary while she was still a virgin.
That seems to be a non-responsive response.Ferg said:They didn't even know they were naked until after they ate the forbidden fruit.Pro Sandy said:How would we know Eve was a virgin in Genesis 3? After Eve is created in Genesis 2, it says "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." We have always assumed that a husband and wife being of one flesh includes sex. Why would we assume Adam and Eve don't have sex until after the fall?Thaddeus73 said:
. Evil entered through Eve while she was still a virgin; so too salvation entered through Mary while she was still a virgin.
Well, other than the Holy Bible there is only one other Record(get it?) of what happened between Adam and Eve in the Garden. I found a recording of it for you.Jabin said:That seems to be a non-responsive response.Ferg said:They didn't even know they were naked until after they ate the forbidden fruit.Pro Sandy said:How would we know Eve was a virgin in Genesis 3? After Eve is created in Genesis 2, it says "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." We have always assumed that a husband and wife being of one flesh includes sex. Why would we assume Adam and Eve don't have sex until after the fall?Thaddeus73 said:
. Evil entered through Eve while she was still a virgin; so too salvation entered through Mary while she was still a virgin.
Well, that is certainly not true...Mary's role, per Genesis 3:15, is to be at enmity with the devil, and her seed will crush the head of satan. We are her children, per Revelation 12;17, if we obey the commandments and and profess that Jesus is our savior. In the Catholic world, mothers are VERY important to salvation...Quote:
because it is not a major issue.
Pro Sandy said:
Is that dependent on
1. Eve being a virgin before the fall
2. Mary being born sinless of a sinful woman
3. and Mary being an evervirgin?
Because those are the differences we have. I find them great to argue about over a beer and our different views are why you won't find any statues of Mary in my house except for my nativity scene. But I don't think either one of our salvation or status as Christians is in jeopardy over it.
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(Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Bernadette Soubirous)
Mary Immaculate, Pray for us!
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Thaddeus73 said:
No..It means that Jesus got his sinless flesh and blood from Mary, also sinless.
Pro Sandy said:Sorry, I don't get it.chimpanzee said:
To suggest that God would not shield the mother of His son from original sin, and wouldn't construct the whole of time and reality to accommodate an outpouring of the graces won by the Resurrection on to Mary before she or Christ were ever born seems, to me, to say you'd expect God to leave a job half done.
Why can't we say that God left the job half done by not having the outpouring of grace of her mother or her mother's mother? It just pushes the problem farther away.
The problem is easily solved. How is it possible for Jesus to be born of a woman who sinned? We proclaim how. "I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was concieved by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary..." I don't need to logically explain how he could be born of Mary and still be God for he is conceived of the Holy Spirit, something even Mary, if sinless, can't claim.
Mary was sinless because of Gods grace. She was saved because God preserved her from sin. Jesus defeated sin of his own doing through faith. God could have had Jesus born of a woman who had the stain of original sin...He can do anything he wants. However, it is fitting that Jesus was born of a sinless woman.10andBOUNCE said:Thaddeus73 said:
No..It means that Jesus got his sinless flesh and blood from Mary, also sinless.
Where did Mary get her sinless flesh and blood? Where did that person get theirs? And that person…and so on? All the sudden there are lots of people who led sinless lives.
Not sure I agree with the concept of original sin, not in the Bible and one of the most complex topics in theology, but that is beside the point.BluHorseShu said:Mary was sinless because of Gods grace. She was saved because God preserved her from sin. Jesus defeated sin of his own doing through faith. God could have had Jesus born of a woman who had the stain of original sin...He can do anything he wants. However, it is fitting that Jesus was born of a sinless woman.10andBOUNCE said:Thaddeus73 said:
No..It means that Jesus got his sinless flesh and blood from Mary, also sinless.
Where did Mary get her sinless flesh and blood? Where did that person get theirs? And that person…and so on? All the sudden there are lots of people who led sinless lives.
Thaddeus73 said:
No you cannot, because "all" in the bible does not mean all, but most.
2 Corinthians 5:14-20
New International Version
14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
Both Enoch and Elijah never died...