Mary, Original Sin and Free Will

[jimmy]

Benadam:

quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia:

by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam – from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death.

I’m guessing that is why your saying that Mary’s flesh was fallen.

I’m not saying it because of the Catholic Encyclopedia article, but what it says is true. She has a mortal flesh which is the result of the sin of Adam and Eve.

She was freed of the OS but not of its effects.

 

[Benadam]

jimmy:

I’m not saying it because of the Catholic Encyclopedia article, but what it says is true. She has a mortal flesh which is the result of the sin of Adam and Eve.

She was freed of the OS but not of its effects​

by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam – from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death.

I see said the blind man. I can understand the sorrow, I am finding it difficult to understand the infirmities and death part.

If this is so, then Mary’s continual yes to the plan of Salvation is more remarkeable because she did it under more difficult circumstances than Adam and Eve. It seems to be a suffering that is a kind of ark of suffering that joins the old and new in one person in that it makes her in my mind an even more intimate participant with Christ’s redemptive suffering, and and at the same time the height and culmination point of suffering in the OT .