Where does it say she was sinless and
how does it change that
Christ is the only one sinless and
able to atone for our sins?
Menno was asserting her sinfulness, so I asked him where it states in Scripture that she sinned...
Her sinlessness cannot atone for our sins...
Resistance to sin is not Life...
Full resistance to sin still needs Life...
Mariam needed a Savior...
She needed Life -
What she demonstrates fully is the relationship between our repentance and God's Giving of Life...
Which is why we are Baptized INTO Christ BY Christ IN His Body BY the Apostles and their progeny...
Even Paul, who arose from his Baptism to beget as a Father in Christ:
1Co 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many fathers:
for in Christ Jesus
I have begotten
you through the Gospel.
Repentance IS the Gospel of the Cross as Paul so clearly established...
For we are each of us to take up our own cross...
As Christ did His Cross...
As Paul his...
Are we are to be imitators of Paul...
Arsenios