Faithful Ag said:Are you considering the original sin of Adam and Eve?BusterAg said:
Why would Jesus inherit original sin just because he was born of a mother that had sinned? Im not accountable for the sins that MY mom committed prior to my birth, why would Jesus be accountable for Mary's sin?BusterAg said:
Why would it be impossible for Jesus to be born of a sinful woman without inheriting original sin?
Did Mary inherit original sin from her Mom? If so, how was she without sin?
Respectfully, I think you are looking at this from the wrong point of view. It's not about Mary. It's about Jesus and what is fitting for God. The OT arc was pure and holy inside and out because it was the dwelling place of God on earth. Likewise the NT arc, Mary, was pure and holy and without sin or stain because she was the literal dwelling place of God Incarnate. This is the primary reason we believe Mary was without sin.
A secondary reason is because we know Jesus, being God, is without sin and that Jesus obeyed and fulfilled all of the OT, including the commandment to honor your mother and father. God is not bound by space and time and therefore He can do anything - including saving Mary from sin from the very beginning of her creation. Surely Jesus honored his mother and loved her so perfectly that he provided her with all the graces needed to keep her free from the evil of sin.
To your question about inheriting original sin…Adam and Eve were created without original sin and chose to eat from the tree of knowledge instead of the tree of life. Jesus and Mary are the new Adam and the new Eve. They chose the will of God and tree of life. We believe that Mary was free from original sin from the moment of her conception and that she never committed a single personal sin because God provided her with super-abundant graces and as "the Woman" from Genesis Mary was always against the devil (enmity).
Nothing is impossible with God and God was not required to do anything. God chose the how, where, and when he would enter our sinful world and he wrote his story in the stars from the beginning of creation…and he chose who among all women would be his mother and through whom he would enter our world. Mary was uniquely set apart for the Holy Spirit to overshadow, and to give humanity - flesh and blood - to our savior in the miracle of life, and to deliver Jesus her son to the world. Mary literally had the blood of Jesus running through her veins while Jesus was in her womb. His blood was her blood.
Jesus honored his mother as the law of God commands and saved her proactively from sin by applying his sacrifice on the cross to his mother before creating her. In the same way the Eucharist, the body and blood of our savior, comes to us today from the table of the last supper and his sacrifice on the cross. It's the same sacrifice offered by Jesus once for ALL. The issue in question is how and when is that sacrifice applied to each of us? It is our belief that Jesus applies his salvation to his mother at the moment of her conception.
Merry Christmas!
This was a good explanation and I appreciated reading it.
My question is this: do you believe once we are saved we all remain sinless? Or the Lord just gave Mary a unique salvation, that He gives no one else, to keep her sinless her entire life? And is there a purpose, or a need, for her to have remained sinless after His birth?