Not necessary. Jesus lives in all believers. We aren’t ‘clean’ as you mentioned. The Blood of Jesus cleanses us just like it cleansed Mary.
Ok… I need to be more clear on what I am NOT talking about.
I was NOT talking about Mary’s Immaculate Conception. (Although your response does support it that much more because He had to get His clean blood from somewhere.)
I was saying that keeping in line with St. Paul’s exhortation on Christ’s Church as One Body should shed light on why the Surrogate Mother Theory cannot be true. Here is why:
If you say that God just used her womb, what did he do with the rest of her?
That would contradict what 1 Corinthians says about the body (reference my last post). Her womb NEEDS the other body parts also. One cannot just say “God used her womb.” That would mean he is denying her dignity of human life! “I am just going to
use your womb and disregard the rest of you.” Well, if you are not saying that, then do not say “surrogate mother”.
“I am just saying God used her womb, not that he did not use her other body parts.” Then, God used the rest of her too, and the Surrogate Mother Theory is false. Let us look at some other possibilities.
People only use the surrogate mother’s womb. And perhaps maybe, they look for good health, good cheeks and such. (This helps Immaculate Conception a little…)
Mary would not have been so joyous about somebody using just her womb, even if it was God. Perhaps she may not have even said yes. I cannot see any woman saying “Yes” to “I am only going to use your womb for 9 months.” Nor can I see a loving God just using one body part after the woman had freely said, “Yes!” (More on that later.)
In any case, a surrogate mother uses an implantation in her uterus of a fertilized egg from another woman OR uses her own egg fertilized by the other woman’s partner.
I guess you kind of use the second definition (because the first transcends the realms of sanity in this conversation). But that still does not make sense. Who is the “other woman”? Or if you say “…by the other
being’s partner” Who is the partner? Is the Holy Spirit the partner? Then the partner (Holy Spirit) and the initial being (Father) are two separate entities.
You can say, “Well they are one just like husband and wife are one flesh. So, the Holy Spirit fertilized Mary’s egg.” Ok… Is the husband the Holy Spirit or the Father? According to surrogate mother, the Holy Spirit is the husband which makes the wife the Father. Or are they both the husband?
“Well, the husband and wife thing is an analogy, not a perfect parallel. The Holy Spirit is the Love of God the Father that conceived Christ in Mary’s fertilized egg.” Fair enough… What kind of “Love” would use just a part of Mary’s body and not the rest? Love does not seek its own interests according 1 Corinthians 13. Usually (if not always), surrogate mothers are used because the woman cannot bear any child. In God’s case, surely He could have just made out of nothing like Adam, but He used a woman to bear Him. If it was a surrogate mother thing, then this “Love” seeked its own interests and only used part of the body of a woman. Therefore, God has contradicted Himself in the Surrogate Mother Theory.
This theory is even on the borderline between legitimate and rape. I am not at all implying that you think this…
I am just showing you that the Surrogate Mother Theory is contrary to reality.
Have any other theories? That is, unless you have legitimate objections to this argument. Please do not say, “Thank you for your opinion.” I would really like to have a discussion about this.
Great advice to follow:thumbsup: