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IT CAN BE VERY CONFUSING OF COURSE, BUT I ALWAYS READ THE ‘IT’ OR ‘HE’ OR ‘SHE’ AS’ THE CHURCH’ IN THAT PARTICULAR SPOT… THE CHURCH BUILT UPON PETER “THE STONE”, IS CALLED* ‘SHE’ *ALSO IN THE GOSPELS, INTERPRETED AS THE ‘FEMALE ROCK’ IN THAT SCRIPTURE. EVE; MEANING ‘LIFE SPRING’ IN HEBREW, WAS FORGIVEN, THEREFORE THE ‘SEED’; (MASCULINE); DOES COME THRU WOMEN, HEBREW & ELSEWHERE… SOMEONE SAID “IF MARY HADN’T CONSENTED” THE HOLY GHOST WOULD HAVE GONE ELSEWHERE, I BELIEVE THAT, BUT MARY’S GREAT HUMILITY OF SUBMISSION CAUSED HER TO RECEIVE THAT HIGHTEST PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL GIFT… THEREFORE SHE IS HIGHLY BLESSED…BUT NO WHERE IN ANY SCRIPTURE WAS SHE DECLARED TO BE A FOREVER VIRGIN NOR WAS SHE WITHOUT SIN, AS SCRIPTURE SAYS, "THERE IS NO ONE (IN FLESH) THAT IS WITHOUT SIN… ALSO SHE GAVE BIRTH TO OTHER CHILDREN, JAMES, ETC…BUT THAT DID NOT MAKE HER UNCLEAN OR SINFUL, SHE WAS ANNOINTED PURE AS THE VESSEL OF CHRIST’S BIRTH, BUT WAS ALWAYS MADE OF FLESH & BLOOD, WORTHY OF CHRIST’S REDEMPTION… AS ALL FLESH MADE FROM THE EARTH, THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM & EVE MUST RECEIVE THRU BLOOD OF CHRIST… ALSO THE WORD SEED IN SEVERAL AREAS IS NEARLY ALWAYS A MASCULINE/ALL MALE WORD. THE SEED IS CLEARLY CHRIST.It is also interesting to note that the Nova Vulgata which to my understanding is the official translation for the Holy See renders that passage as “it” rather than assigning any gender at all.
To me, that creates a bit of confusion.