
The Problem of Evil: Why Is There Evil if a Good God Exists? | Prof. Gloria Frost
The Thomistic Institute
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The Immaculate Conception
The reason that the human race has original sin is because of this first choice of Adam and Eve. So it would be really odd if God decided well even though these creatures decided to sin I'm going to create all their children like still in communion with me, he says. Aquinas didn't affirm the immaculate conception but thought it wasn't possible for even Mary to be immaculately conceived. He was worried about how they would also be redeemed by Christ so it wasn't until later in the 1700s or 1800s that the church accepted that dogma.
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