http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/did-mary-have-labor-pains an online magazine for spiritual seekers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/did-mary-have-labor-pains/comment-page-1#comment-7077 Jane Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:19:15 +0000 http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/did-mary-have-labor-pains/#comment-7077 Yes, all women who are baptized are freed from original sin. But your logic ends there. Baptized women still feel the EFFECTS of the original sin. Otherwise, once we were baptized, we would all be sinless, perfect, immaculate. Mary was sinless from the moment of her conception, and therefore was never bound by the EFFECTS of original sin. There is a BIG difference there, a big difference between her and baptized women. So to say "If, as the Church teaches, baptism frees us from original sin, then shouldn‚Äôt all baptized women be free of labor pains?" is just not logical. The answer is no, baptized women shouldn't be free of labor pains, because they were not CONCEIVED without original sin, and are still bound to feel its effect in their lives. Otherwise, we could all be canonized right after our baptisms. Yes, all women who are baptized are freed from original sin. But your logic ends there. Baptized women still feel the EFFECTS of the original sin. Otherwise, once we were baptized, we would all be sinless, perfect, immaculate. Mary was sinless from the moment of her conception, and therefore was never bound by the EFFECTS of original sin. There is a BIG difference there, a big difference between her and baptized women. So to say “If, as the Church teaches, baptism frees us from original sin, then shouldn‚Äôt all baptized women be free of labor pains?” is just not logical. The answer is no, baptized women shouldn’t be free of labor pains, because they were not CONCEIVED without original sin, and are still bound to feel its effect in their lives. Otherwise, we could all be canonized right after our baptisms.

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