So the Catholics justify this by saying that Mary was without sin and that's why she was chosen. It seems that for Jesus to have been born without sin he needed to be born to someone without sin. This begs the question, though: where did Mary come from? Didn't she need a sinless mother, too? And if original sin started with Adam and Eve and was passed down through the generations, I've got to assume that Mary's ancestors split off before the development of anatomically modern humans?
If my loose interpretation of Catholic theology is correct, Jesus was actually the last neanderthal.
Edit: Holy shit I just realized he even came back to life in a cave. You know who else felt refreshed after a three day nap in a cave? Cavemen.
At least in Catholicism, Mary was actually born without sin (she was divinely shielded somehow, iirc) so that she could then birth Jesus. While most people think Jesus was the “immaculate conception”, it was Mary. Jesus was just the “virgin birth”.
Edit: I like to think it went like this:
God: okay, I need to have sex with a human to make my sinless demigod son.
Angel: um… god? You made it so all humans are born with sin, remember?
Didn't she ask god to forgive her sins or acknowledge that she sinned? That might be a protestant thing though, catholics go way harder for Mary than protestants
Yeah, Catholicism is bizarre in the way they lift religious figureheads into practically deity status (saints), changing them from regular people into beings that you pray to.
Sounds like Protestants are a little more down to earth with their religious figureheads. Catholics would rather things be Devine than mundane I think.
So the Catholics justify this by saying that Mary was without sin and that's why she was chosen. It seems that for Jesus to have been born without sin he needed to be born to someone without sin. This begs the question, though: where did Mary come from? Didn't she need a sinless mother, too? And if original sin started with Adam and Eve and was passed down through the generations, I've got to assume that Mary's ancestors split off before the development of anatomically modern humans?
If my loose interpretation of Catholic theology is correct, Jesus was actually the last neanderthal.
Edit: Holy shit I just realized he even came back to life in a cave. You know who else felt refreshed after a three day nap in a cave? Cavemen.
I thought it wasn't that Mary had never sinned but that the actual conception of Jesus, despite her not being married, was not a sin itself
At least in Catholicism, Mary was actually born without sin (she was divinely shielded somehow, iirc) so that she could then birth Jesus. While most people think Jesus was the “immaculate conception”, it was Mary. Jesus was just the “virgin birth”.
Edit: I like to think it went like this:
God: okay, I need to have sex with a human to make my sinless demigod son.
Angel: um… god? You made it so all humans are born with sin, remember?
God: idk figure it out.
Didn't she ask god to forgive her sins or acknowledge that she sinned? That might be a protestant thing though, catholics go way harder for Mary than protestants
Yeah, Catholicism is bizarre in the way they lift religious figureheads into practically deity status (saints), changing them from regular people into beings that you pray to.
Sounds like Protestants are a little more down to earth with their religious figureheads. Catholics would rather things be Devine than mundane I think.
God could've chosen a 39 year old MILF to give birth to his son.