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I'm sorry, but while I agree that (1) Mary was not born without sin, I do not agree that (2) if she had been born without sin the Bible would have said so. I subscribe to Proposition (1) because the burden of proof is on those who advance such an unusual claim as Mary being born sinless, and...

Once again, you guys are talking past each other. Let's hit the reset button, and start by distinguishing between what the Catholics call "original sin" (inherited from Adam as part of the human condition) and "actual sin" (the choices we humans make against God's commandments of love). Can we...

I'm not saying it would be the case. My point was simply that if you wanted to harmonize your "need" for Mary to be sinless as a vessel for birthing Jesus (Post #21) with @marks' "all have sinned" quote from Romans as necessarily including Mary (Post #23), this is how you might do it. See my...

Asking others to pray for a specific intention (happens all the time, including on this forum) raises an interesting philosophical question: if they do pray as requested, and God is moved as a result to grant the intention, did asking them to intercede on your behalf constitute a "prayer"...

If you walk alternating left foot steps and right foot steps, have YOU changed? Your actions have (every second!), and your location on the planet has, but have YOU? No. The notion that taking an action at time t1 and not taking the same action at time t2 connotes a "change" in the actor is...

Ah, but was she a sinner prior to birthing Jesus?

We are all tempted to sin, from a rather early age. I'm sure that was true for Mary as well. Let's say she gave birth at age 16. Surely it is conceivable (no pun intended) that she resisted temptation to sin with 100% success up to that point. (I don't have a clue why Mary should be...

As is so often the case, the debate here seems to be between logic (a sinless Jesus could not have proceeded from a sinful Mary as his vessel for coming into the world) and Scripture (Paul told the Romans that all have sinned – which is the same as God saying it, so it must be true). I disagree...

I'd like to venture an answer to this one -- and please forgive me for re-characterizing the question a bit into "Why does John (who surely wasn't in the room at the time) report that Jesus said to Pilate you would have no power over me except it be given by God? I'm re-characterizing the...

Next time you talk to Him, ask Him whether his death or his resurrection was the atoning sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. If He answers, "My death, of course!" ask him why He would object to our calling that day a Good day rather than a Black one.

Almost there, @Keraz ! Now dig into the "once and for all" sacrifice on Calvary described in the NT and square it with the continued sin offerings (other types don't matter) you've plucked from the OT. Tell us what their point is, post-Calvary.

Fun watching you guys go at it! It is important to distinguish between sin offerings and other kinds of offerings. @Keraz has a point - once he deletes the half of his OT quotes that do not reference sin offerings. And that point is: these OT verses are timeless and as yet unfulfilled...

Funny you should mention Paul. He was kind enough to endorse my novel on the Arian heresy.

I don't read Galatians 3 to overrule the declaration that those who do continue in all things to follow the law are blessed. Deut. 11:26 portrays the Law as both a blessing to those who keep it and a curse to those who don’t. Gal. 3:10 stresses that the curse follows a single slip-up...

Truth to tell, I find a lot of my fellow Trinitarians' arguments in support of their thesis to be at least mild stretches. This one happens to be a big stretch.

Gotta agree with you on this . . . and I'm a Trinitarian!

Or, maybe Peter, you are a cross-examiner's dream witness!

We need to consider the possibility that Luke wrote, or intended to write, a third volume beyond what we have preserved as Luke-Acts. His decision to end Acts where he did might be explained by something as simple as the length of the scroll. To quote from encyclopedia.com: "The usual...

I am far less certain than you. That Luke decided to recount this particular prophesy because he knew the temple had fallen (thus telling his audience that Jesus was a phenomenal prognosticator) is as plausible in my mind as his picking it from among Jesus's many prophesies in order to stress...

Luke 21:5-6 doesn't count?