(November 18, 2017 at 3:10 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Late to the party, and I have to run to an appointment in 10 minutes so I don't have time to read the thread, sorry . . .emphasis mine.
But according to the fable, I think Mary gave consent. At least Luke 1:38 said so. The angel spoke to her, described what was about to happen in no detail, and waited for a response. Mary says "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."
Is a young woman going to say NO to some shining gorgeous angel who wants her to be the MOTHER OF GOD? Uh, probably not.
Not that it happened . . .
Exactly. What's funny is we are arguing whether or not Mary was raped by an invisible sky daddy whom Atheists don't find real to begin with.
So yeah. There's that and this thread is doing nothing more than feeding the theists egos here.
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