tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424136.post5295070490746170187..comments2024-01-29T06:25:17.244-05:00Comments on philorthodox: The Orthodox View of the 'Immaculate Conception'The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06597996290993316169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424136.post-51701167501916619012006-10-25T17:55:00.000-04:002006-10-25T17:55:00.000-04:00All the arguments about what original sin exactly ...All the arguments about what original sin exactly means go over my head but I understand and appreciate that the Eastern take on this may make the Western definition of Mary's sinlessness not necessary.<br /><br />And I understand it's perfectly good 'Orthodoxese' to say she was 'cleansed in the womb'. That means the same thing!<br /><br />Also, not being in original sin meant she was like Eve ('Eva, Ave') in that she could have chosen to fall but unlike Eve did not.<br /><br />That said...<br /><br />Why anybody who's done any studying would reject the notion of the salvific acts of God being unlimited by time or space, so redeeming the one from whom he'd take flesh is no problem, completely escapes me.<br /><br />And what beggars the imagination even more is that those who bend over backwards to spite Rome by denying this then insist that the legend of Mary living in the Holy of Holies (physically impossible, and sorry, where is the historical record from the Jews of this extraordinary event?) is literally true.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com