God Chose His Own Mom
Posted by: tony on 11/22/2007 02:07 AM
Updated by: tony on 11/22/2007 02:07 AM
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Expires: 12/23/2007 12:00 AM
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I have been a Catholic all of my life. And it's interesting when someone says something to you that just makes light bulbs go off. Jennifer from Et Tu? does that on a consistent basis.
She writes:
As I was thinking about this, at some point the thought popped into my head: so if God made himself a man like the Christians say he did, that means...that means that God, the Creator of the entire universe, chose his own mom. Whoa! "I want to know more about her," I immediately thought.
God picked His own mom. What kind of mom would God have picked for Himself? Our separated bretheren claim He picked a fallen human, just like the rest of us. I don't buy it.
The other issue is that every Christian creed I've heard of (and non-Catholic Christians can correct me if I'm wrong), but the term is "conceived by the Holy Spirit". "Conceived" means an egg was fertilized and grew within Mary's womb. Did God inject a "holy egg"? I don't buy it.
If He didn't, then Jesus was made of the same human stuff as Mary. The "God" part was from God, the "man" part was from Mary. If Jesus was sinless, He could not have been tainted by the corruption of original sin. Hence, Mary was conceived sinless.
Jesus was true God, true man, with an immaculately conceived mother.
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