re: #92 goddamnedfrank

Then why the whole immaculate conception, having Mary be born without original sin? It seems that if God was going to create one perfect vessel to carry his child then there probably wasn’t a whole lot left up to chance.

Good point, but we don’t know that there weren’t others. Who’s to say there wasn’t a whole brigade of sinless teenage girls walking around? For that matter, who’s to say that a previous generation (Elizabeth?) didn’t say no, and set the clock back? Or that if Mary had refused, God would have had to start over?

(I’m seeing some fictional potential here.)