Dear Emeraldisle - You state:" Yes now that we are in the realm of fanciful speculation, lets just say God can create us all without sin and keep us all sinless." Does this fanciful speculation include Genesis? Or are you of a mind that writes Genesis off to a literary device or is it mythological?
If you aren’t and agree that the accounts of Creation are fact, then yes it is true God can and DID create human beings who had
no sin. He kept them in the Garden of Eden and things were quite different. Then the devil entered into to Eden to try them. They failed God and fell. Do you think if God had wanted to He could have prevented their falling?
So, let me be clear, I’m assuming you agree that Adam and Eve weren’t mythological persons or mere literary devices and that they were actual human beings created by God in His own image. They were created by Him without any sins. *They didn’t even have knowlege of good and evil! * So, if you agree with this part that God can and did create two persons, male and female
without any sins or even knowlege of sin, why is it such a hard strech of your imagination to think that God might repeat His creating actions for His own mother?
What we as Catholics say is that yes it is possible for God to create human beings without sin and in fact He did! (The Good News!) Not only Adam and Eve, but also His own Mother, Mary. The difference between Mary and ourselves is that she was also preserved by Him through His grace from
ever sinning. (If you doubt whether or not the devil ever got near her, I could quote Revelations for you, but that might be too much for you.)
I suppose you could point to the passage in Romans and claim it includes Mary, but that isn’t correct and I think if St. Paul were here today, he would set you straight about your stretching
his words to blaspheme God’s most Holy Mother!
I could only hope your defamatory treatment of Mary, God’s Mother, and suggesting that she was merely “used” and disguarded by God would fall into the realm of fanciful speculations in your mind, and perhaps, in time that will change for you and you’ll come to love her the way we already do. That would really be a beautiful thing and if you ever get there, you’ll understand what we are saying to you here. If you’re like some I’ve talked to you’ll wonder how you could ever think about blaspheming her that way. I wish you were already there. I’ll trust that to the Divine Mercy.
Meantime, on this thread alone you have been given much valuable and useful information from which you could choose to grow and mature in faith. That is up to you. God will not force Himself or His Mother on you. That is the free will thing Adam and Eve goofed up on too, so you’re in good company. Free will is your gift from God; what you do with it is your gift back to Him. Think before you blaspheme Mary.
Peace,
Gail
