Mother of God

~
Augustine of Hippo, who was the father of the orthodoxy who sought to deny that mankind truly had any free will and as such was not responsible for his prior acts of sexual irresponsibility.

To Augustine, Adam’s original sin was caused by Adam having sex to Eve at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This “Original Sin” was now transmitted through the mother’s womb and by it, tainted all human beings leaving them incapable of choosing good over evil. It also denied man the responsibility of choosing his own spiritual destiny.

By such circular reasoning, Mary the maiden, was sexually inexperienced not because of her choice, but because the Lord of hosts determined that it was to be this way. By denying the fatherhood of Joseph, the Roman Church also was denying that the Original Sin of Adam would not taint the babe who was the Christ Child. How so, we ask, could not the Original Sin of Adam also come through the genes of Mary? Not so said the Roman Catholic Church, for Mary the mother of Jesus was also born, not from living earthy parents, but by Immaculate Conception. And so the circle of spiritual reasoning was complete……and in the process Jesus lost all of his humanness. In essence, Jesus was ‘Wholly God” but God was Jesus’ Father and God was also Jesus’ grandfather and Jesus’ grandmother through the immaculate conception of Mary.