Jim_Wynne
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StephenB:
According to the common teaching of the Church, Mary’s will was made so free that she had no inclination or desire to sin and, therefore, could not have sinned.
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I don't know anything about Catholic doctrine, but doesn't this explanation lead one to ask why God didn't also give Adam and Eve this additional free will that Mary apparently received? Maybe the world would have been a better place without that "Fall" thing. |
The fall was necessary because it was preordained, except it wasn't exactly preordained because Adam and Eve had free will, and could have refused to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, even though prior to eating from the tree they had no knowledge of good and evil and thus had no way of knowing what they were doing was wrong by the Absolute Moral Standard but should have known anyway because God told them not to do it.
Does that clear it up for you?
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Evolution is not about laws but about randomness on happanchance.--Robert Byers, at PT
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