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- From: chrisa@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (C. G. Albone)
- Subject: Re: Images, Mary, Saints
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- In article <jhb.724573019@monet> jhb@maths.su.oz.au (John Brownie) writes:
- >I'm back from holiday, and there are 53 messages in this group...
- >I'll be selective in what I try to respond to.
- >
- >
- >I don't follow the reasoning here. Are you saying that an unborn baby
- >is subject to sin because it is borne by a sinful person? If I grant
- >you that, I could see how you would get that Mary would be without sin
- >during the time of her pregnancy. How does it follow that Mary would
- >be without sin for the rest of her life? If it was necessary that Mary
- >be without sin in bringing up Jesus, would not also Joseph have to be
- >without sin?
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- If it is required that the mother/parents of a baby need to be free of
- sin for the baby to be sinless that would seem to imply that Mary's
- parents were also free of sin, and theirs and theirs etc... and where
- does it stop? adam and eve having a child before the fall that we werent
- told about? I am not sure it really makes any sense to argue over whethre
- Mary was sinful or not. How does it effect us now? More importantly I guess
- is how do we know? We can speculate I guess... but we are neither God nor
- Mary, and I guess that makes it difficult to _know_ one way or the other.
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- CHris.
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