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The Importance of Immaculate Conception Explained
As organ music played, a ‘Program Note’ across the seven screens read: ‘The Importance of Immaculate Conception and the subsequent virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ as the means by which to cleanse mankind of original sin, presented by Associate Pastor Dr. Hershel Beam, Ph.DD, Doctor of Divinity.’ Across the bottom of the screens ran the banner ‘From a previously recorded sermon.’
“How important was the virgin birth to cleanse the earth of original sin?” asked the Reverend/Doctor. “It was paramount to man’s survival.
“And it worked this way, along a long and dramatic winding road that we were finally freed from sin by the grace of God that we find ourselves today, in these modern times, the benefactors of God’s ultimate love and
