Was Mary Sinless?

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That would be spiritually bereft, to be spiritually dead it had to have, at one time, been alive.

Is a person born blind was someone who at one time was able to see?

Did you once have truth that you are now denying?
That is why you are dead to it?

The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night
and day to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even
while she lives. 1 Timothy 5:5-6​

What difference does it make if you have a dead spirit?
Or, no human spirit?

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That would be spiritually bereft, to be spiritually dead it had to have, at one time, been alive.

Jesus never said.... The Spirit must RESURRECT your spirit.
That is what you are saying amounts to.

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit must beget spirit, as flesh begets flesh.
John 3:6

That is where you keep swerving off the road.
 
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Again, just as a battery thought dead but just needed an infusion of power to operate as it was created.

That would be resuscitation. Or, resurrection!

Not being born again into a new way, which what happens when given a human spirit.

The way God originally created man, was having man meant to be having a human spirit.
Adam's fall cut off the process.
 

This is another personal testimonial (written this year).
Oh my! I just came across your songs in this thread. Completely amazing! What a beautiful gift you have been given.

When I listened to these songs I immediately realized they ARE your interpretations of His Scriptures. These are how we are meant to hear His Words. All the time or effort I spend attempting to understand and interpret His Words- Genesis to Revelation and here you come and provide such clear and unmistakable living meaning to them.

Simply amazing! Thanks for sharing them. And I hope not to offend you but I would love to hear you create a song about how Jesus fulfilled all of the “shadows” of the ceremonial laws (Passover Lamb, High Priest, Sanctuary, etc.) and He was all those fulfilled in Him. What you could do with that would be unbelievable!!!

Oh, and let me throw something else in … NO OFFENSE, it could also include that He created a holy day in the beginning where we would find Him every 7th day to be with Him and there “Are no shadows on the 7th day.” This could be the title!

God bless always - what a talent!
 
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Oh my! I just came across your songs in this thread. Completely amazing! What a beautiful gift you have been given.

When I listened to these songs I immediately realized they ARE your interpretations of His Scriptures. These are how we are meant to hear His Words. All the time or effort I spend attempting to understand and interpret His Words- Genesis to Revelation and here you come and provide such clear and unmistakable living meaning to them.

Simply amazing! Thanks for sharing them. And I hope not to offend you but I would love to hear you create a song about how Jesus fulfilled all of the “shadows” of the ceremonial laws (Passover Lamb, High Priest, Sanctuary, etc.) and He was all those fulfilled in Him. What you could do with that would be unbelievable!!!

Oh, and let me throw something else in … NO OFFENSE, it could also include that He created a holy day in the beginning where we would find Him every 7th day to be with Him and there “Are no shadows on the 7th day.” This could be the title!

God bless always - what a talent!
Thank you so much for your very kind words! All glory to God!!! Oh my, it is my dearest wish that the songs
I compose feed the spirits of those who listen to them, that people really hear them, and you have! I am so
thankful... your suggestion is a good one, and not offensive in the least... though I believe God can be found any day.

 
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Jesus never said.... The Spirit must RESURRECT your spirit.
That is what you are saying amounts to.

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit must beget spirit, as flesh begets flesh. John 3:6

That is where you keep swerving off the road.

Such a simple comparison and yet so many cannot see it. :confused:
 
Thank you so much for your very kind words! All glory to God!!! Oh my, it is my dearest wish that the songs
I compose feed the spirits of those who listen to them, that people really hear them, and you have! I am so
thankful... your suggestion is a good one, and not offensive in the least... though I believe God can be found any day.

Oh, this one is also so good. Don’t know how someone could create such things. The “arts” are so far from anything in my wheelhouse. Just beautiful.

Ok, now I am going to show you how much trouble you are in and you should have put me on “ignore,” (but you still have that option 😧).

Please think if you could write one of your songs / poems to the following melodies (if that is the right term):

1) Let me be.

2) Stairway to heaven (my favorite…)

Thanks again.
 
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Oh, this one is also so good. Don’t know how someone could create such things. The “arts” are so far from anything in my wheelhouse. Just beautiful.

Ok, now I am going to show you how much trouble you are in and you should have put me on “ignore,” (but you still have that option 😧).

Please think if you could write one of your songs / poems to the following melodies (if that is the right term):

1) Let me be.

2) Stairway to heaven (my favorite…)

Thanks again.
Let me be, or, Let It be? The Beatles? Hmmm, well, the generators often reject any specific naming of artist or particular song, but what can be done is to ask another ai (or search engine) how they would describe such a song and then give that as a style prompt, or a similar description to the generator. One of the main problems with these generators is that they are so interpretive, which is great for some songs and not so great for others, haha. Some of my songs have been interpreted beautifully right away, with the style prompt I give, and others? Oh my, I have mentioned how some I have more than a hundred versions generated, and am still not really happy with the results. A few of those songs I would think, surely there is something that is not a complete failure? LOL. Like, for My Vital Spark, I chose a version that dropped the last three lines because, one, it is not that obvious, and also because I had been attempting to get a good version from that poem since I began this whole thing late last year, and the chosen version was much better than many others despite those missing lines that the generator just skipped right over and omitted. Something else that happened with that poem also was inserting vocalizations to prevent line and word rushing, the generator once took all my ahhs and ohhs and mm mmm mmmms, removed them from where I had inserted them, made a verse out of just those, and then rushed through all the words I wanted pauses between LOL. Another of my older poems that had over a hundred versions made they kept turning into a funeral dirge, and the program was determined to march my poem over to the hole in the ground they had dug for it due to the words LOLOLOLOLOLOL. But I did not want a funeral dirge! So I kept giving up and then later would return to it again to try some more... over and over again I have done this with some songs to the point where getting something pleasing from anything right away seemed miraculous! And I did try saying things to indicate musical preferences like Delerium or Richard Souther's treatment of Hildegard von Bingen but they were most often largely ignored. This is the "funeral dirge" song. A couple of people have told me it is their favourite (it is now what I call a salsa flavoured Flamenco tune):


Originally written in 1988 and then augmented with new material from my now perspective as a Christian.
 
Such a simple comparison and yet so many cannot see it. :confused:

Religion has a powerful opiate effect for those who are terrorized by the thought of having to take up their own cross to follow Him.
They feel lost in having to lose their own way of doing things, preserving the right to doing something their own way.

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.


2 Timothy 4:3​

Some lust to establish themselves as being a hero to protect what others like themselves wish to hear.
That is why we get cliques and false-doctrine founded denominations.
 
Let me be, or, Let It be? The Beatles? Hmmm, well, the generators often reject any specific naming of artist or particular song, but what can be done is to ask another ai (or search engine) how they would describe such a song and then give that as a style prompt, or a similar description to the generator. One of the main problems with these generators is that they are so interpretive, which is great for some songs and not so great for others, haha. Some of my songs have been interpreted beautifully right away, with the style prompt I give, and others? Oh my, I have mentioned how some I have more than a hundred versions generated, and am still not really happy with the results. A few of those songs I would think, surely there is something that is not a complete failure? LOL. Like, for My Vital Spark, I chose a version that dropped the last three lines because, one, it is not that obvious, and also because I had been attempting to get a good version from that poem since I began this whole thing late last year, and the chosen version was much better than many others despite those missing lines that the generator just skipped right over and omitted. Something else that happened with that poem also was inserting vocalizations to prevent line and word rushing, the generator once took all my ahhs and ohhs and mm mmm mmmms, removed them from where I had inserted them, made a verse out of just those, and then rushed through all the words I wanted pauses between LOL. Another of my older poems that had over a hundred versions made they kept turning into a funeral dirge, and the program was determined to march my poem over to the hole in the ground they had dug for it due to the words LOLOLOLOLOLOL. But I did not want a funeral dirge! So I kept giving up and then later would return to it again to try some more... over and over again I have done this with some songs to the point where getting something pleasing from anything right away seemed miraculous! And I did try saying things to indicate musical preferences like Delerium or Richard Souther's treatment of Hildegard von Bingen but they were most often largely ignored. This is the "funeral dirge" song. A couple of people have told me it is their favourite (it is now what I call a salsa flavoured Flamenco tune):


Originally written in 1988 and then augmented with new material from my now perspective as a Christian.


First, I am going to have to disagree with your comments (copied below) - I have no ability to "interpret" it.... I think it is easier to interpret scripture!:oops: For the sentence below I am going to need scripture and verse - no idea what this means - I know you know what it means but you really should not use this type of language around me.....:cry:

Something else that happened with that poem also was inserting vocalizations to prevent line and word rushing, the generator once took all my ahhs and ohhs and mm mmm mmmms, removed them from where I had inserted them, made a verse out of just those, and then rushed through all the words I wanted pauses between LOL.


Here is the link to "Let me be"



Well, whatever you decide to do.... please keep doing it. Best wishes always.
 
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First, I am going to have to disagree with your comments (copied below) - I have no ability to "interpret" it.... I think it is easier to interpret scripture!:oops: For the sentence below I am going to need scripture and verse - no idea what this means - I know you know what it means but you really should not use this type of language around me.....:cry:

Something else that happened with that poem also was inserting vocalizations to prevent line and word rushing, the generator once took all my ahhs and ohhs and mm mmm mmmms, removed them from where I had inserted them, made a verse out of just those, and then rushed through all the words I wanted pauses between LOL.


Here is the link to "Let me be"



Well, whatever you decide to do.... please keep doing it. Best wishes always.
Thank you!! Interesting song which I have surely never heard before, or even of Vibe Guide... is the vibe guide
a band? I am not sure what I am looking at, there is vibe coding, vibe guide to music trends etc. ? LOL.
The vibe itself is nice. I have been using an EDM prompt for many of my recent songs because it works.

Well, I feel like I have finally just slowed down a little bit from what was at first a tidal wave of
creativity when I first started playing with the music generators. But I do not believe I am done...
Eh, yeah, some say there is too much in any one song. Well? I guess I have a lot to say. :unsure:😊;)🌸
 
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Thank you so much! I was raised in a religious home but did not know Jesus, and quit the church as a teen,
believing there was something but not that. I still remember coming up to the time of my conversion being
distressed that I was "becoming one of them" because I was so opposed to the idea of organized religion
and the Biblical God, and this actually helped me once I did become Christian because I could relate so well
to those who I then began witnessing to, hoping to encourage to seek. When I first wrote poetry it was to
express what words in normal conversation could not, and in some very real ways was not allowed.
I composed this song from a couple of poems written after the God encounter "Grace" is based on:



So that would have been sixteen years before my conversion...
This is a redo of my third‑ever upload, originally posted on December 17th, 2025.
Thank you, I believe most, if not all, have, or had, the same questions in our minds at one time, but not poetically, as you have so beautifully presented them.
 
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Thank you, I believe most, if not all, have, or had, the same questions in our minds
at one time, but not poetically, as you have so beautifully presented them.
@Magenta, that was wonderful. What a gift!
Thank you so much! I have not written anything new for a few days now and this is a definite change for me.
I did very much love writing this song about Paul, and it was fun finding out how many words rhymed with
Israel. Not so much fun when the abrupt cut-off at eight minutes (a generator "ceiling") really slowed me
down as I tried to figure out how to fix the audio to make it more somewhat presentable, which meant
learning even more programs and apps. I also generated and edited the images for this song. This was
most likely before I figured out how to make actual video-videos for my youtube uploads, which is
really just using the video loops that other people make available for that very reason. My video loops
are sourced from Pixabay where I used to source images for my digitally collaged Scripture panels, some
of which I used in/for earlier song uploads as well. Nearing the end of 2024 I started generating my own
images to use in my Scripture panels, and that really sped up the whole process for me, having everything
much more to my liking and tastes to begin with rather than having to spend hours editing in photoshop
just to -for instance- get the clothing the colour I wanted it. This song is also largely Scripture, as before
the halfway mark I am quoting from various epistles from Paul. I did just update the song description.


 
Another thing I learned in generating the music for this song was the fact that the generators
do very well with Latin, in fact they do better with Latin pronunciations than English, because

in Latin there are no variations in vowel sounds, for instance. Copilot tells me that:

Latin is phonetic — English is chaos

Latin:
  • Every letter has one sound
  • Vowels are stable
  • Consonants are predictable
  • Syllables break cleanly
English:
  • 26 letters, ~44 phonemes
  • Vowels mutate like gremlins after midnight
  • Stress patterns are inconsistent
  • Spelling rarely matches sound
AI models LOVE consistency. Latin gives them a clean, rule‑based playground.

2️⃣

AI vocal models are trained on:
  • Choral recordings
  • Classical singing
  • Liturgical music
  • Opera
  • Sacred works (Requiems, Masses, motets)
All of those use very standardized Latin diction.

Anywho, long before I became a Christian I loved songs in Latin, like Richard Souther's treatment of
Hildegard von Bingen medieval chants, and things like Pilgrimage 9 Songs of Ecstasy and the work
Paul Schwartz did modernizing popular operatic arias (not Latin but foreign languages). So it seemed
a natural fit to write Latin into this song as Paul was not just a Jew but a Roman citizen. Plus I grew
up listening to the mass and other hymns in Latin. I am not a big fan of Gregorian chant, though...

This song has English, Latin, and Greek in it :D Most of my songs are just English; a few are English and one other language.

 
Is a person born blind was someone who at one time was able to see?

Did you once have truth that you are now denying?
That is why you are dead to it?

The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night
and day to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even
while she lives. 1 Timothy 5:5-6​

What difference does it make if you have a dead spirit?
Or, no human spirit?

........
" Is a person born blind was someone who at one time able to see?" " And He took the blind man by his hand, and led him out of the town; and when He had spit ON HIS EYES, and put His hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I SEE MEN...." Mark 8:23-4 The blind man HAD EYES that couldn't see, they were deadened to light. The Holy Spirit, at conversion, quickens our deadened spirits, " It is the Spirit that QUICKENETH; the FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, they ARE SPIRIT, and the are life." John 6:63. In both instances, both Jesus and the Holy Spirit, worked with things (eyes and spirit) that were already in existence, so as to operate as they were created to. " Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every (human) spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every (human) spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now is already in the world." 1 John 4:3. This speaks of those who have received, by confession, Jesus as their Savior and those who have rejected, not confessed, Him, THEY BOTH HAVE SPIRITS, one of God, the other of antichrist. Remember, if we believe in our hearts and CONFESS Him with our mouth we shall be saved, if we don't, we won't. Rom 10:9-10. P.S. I NEVER deny truth, why you may ask, because "Thy Word is truth."
 
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" Is a person born blind was someone who at one time able to see?" " And He took the blind man by his hand, and led him out of the town; and when He had spit ON HIS EYES, and put His hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I SEE MEN...." Mark 8:23-4 The blind man HAD EYES that couldn't see, they were deadened to light. The Holy Spirit, at conversion, quickens our deadened spirits, " It is the Spirit that QUICKENETH; the FLESH PROFITETH NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, they ARE SPIRIT, and the are life." John 6:63. In both instances, both Jesus and the Holy Spirit, worked with things (eyes and spirit) that were already in existence, so as to operate as they were created to. " Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every (human) spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every (human) spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now is already in the world." 1 John 4:3. This speaks of those who have received, by confession, Jesus as their Savior and those who have rejected, not confessed, Him, THEY BOTH HAVE SPIRITS, one of God, the other of antichrist. Remember, if we believe in our hearts and CONFESS Him with our mouth we shall be saved, if we don't, we won't. Rom 10:9-10. P.S. I NEVER deny truth, why you may ask, because "Thy Word is truth."


Do you know what the Greek uses about what gets translated, "the natural man?"


But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14​
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