If the price of sin is death, this raises some interesting questions. Holy mother Mary, carrier of the Divine Jesus the Christ, was concieved without sin (this is the famous Immaculate Conception, not, as many believe, applicable to Jesus but his mother), and was concieved so so that when Jesus was to be born she would not pass on the stain of original Sin unto the new-born saviour. Given that she was born without sin, and remained (occestensibly, being described as a holy Virgin) pure, why did she die? Further, if you maintain that at sometime during her life she must have sinned to result in her death, why did the only one who never sinned, and was born without the stain of Original Sin, have to die (we're speaking of course of Jesus himself)? The perfection of the sacrifice not-withstanding, could it not have been Mary who was sacrificed for the world's sins, since she too was without sin?
2007-07-30
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