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By the doctrine's own logic, he would have. Many Christians hold that every child inherits Adam's sin. Paul says Jesus was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh". Since Joseph was not his father, that could only be through Mary. If sin passes from parent to child, it would pass to Jesus through her. If he took nothing from her flesh, he was not David's seed, and the prophecies Christians apply to him fail. Catholics answer that Mary herself was kept free of original sin. That teaching became a dogma only in 1854, and a Catholic encyclopedia admits no clear proof of it can be brought from Scripture. Islam has no such problem: every child is born pure, and no one inherits another's sin.

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