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I do not know that “fittingness” is a good argument. He was born in a stable; a palace would have been fitting. He, the Word, was misunderstood; He the Law was defied, He Life died. We celebrate and ponder on the contradictions of His life. He was rejected and despised, a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. Were these things fitting to His place and stature?No, brumano.
Our hosts, the Catholic Answers staff, completely disagree with your position regarding the “argument of necessity.” They state, “The reason we don’t use that argument is precisely that it’s not a good one.”
They go on to state:
"Don’t use the easily refutable argument of necessity; the argument of fittingness is much better. It was fitting that God willed that Mary was conceived free from all sin, since she was chosen to be the Ark of the New Covenant, the mother of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the incarnate Word of God. The Father didn’t have to do it that way, but it was fitting that he did. For a more detailed discussion of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception see Bishop Ullathorne, The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God (Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, 1988 ed.) and Patrick Madrid, “Ark of the New Covenant” (This Rock, December 1991).
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That is to say absolutely nothing at all against His mother, that is merely to point out what seems a weakness in logic.