The same is true with how our Heavenly Father can save people from sin. He saves the rest of the human family after we have entered this world devoid of the life of God, wounded by Original Sin. Facebook Twitter Google. Is the Immaculate Conception Biblical? But is there any Scriptural basis for this doctrine? Where in the Bible? Let's Stay in Touch! On Facebook Facebook Posts This message is only visible to admins: Unable to display Facebook posts Error: 12 caption field is deprecated for versions v3.
The main problem with belief in the immaculate conception surrounds the idea of Mary being conceived without sin. The Bible is very clear that Jesus is the only human who will ever walk the earth without sin. Regardless of religious background, most of us have heard of the immaculate conception. However, many do not understand what this phrase means and have misunderstood it for referring to the virgin birth of Jesus.
Music describing the event is played in malls, people put nativity scenes under their Christmas tree and on their lawns. Even the well-known Peanuts gang proclaims the true meaning of Christmas in the movie a Charlie Brown Christmas. The virgin birth is rejoiced in by angels and humans. Jesus, the newborn King is the only person to ever walk the earth who deserves glory. He came to bring peace on earth and mercy to sinners like you and me.
Ultimately, the virgin birth is the moment in time that began reconciliation between God and sinners. So if Christmas is the celebration of the virgin birth, then what is the immaculate conception? Is there a difference? And why does the virgin birth matter? Should Christians hold one belief more closely than the other?
The answer is a resounding yes: Christians should hold to one belief, the virgin birth. The immaculate conception is the belief that Mary was conceived without sin. Because of this immaculate conception, the Catholic doctrine teaches that she remained sinless, or in perfect relationship with God throughout her life. All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong; no one does good, not even one.
Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness Romans Romans chapter three deals with personal sin because it speaks of sins committed by the sinner.
With this in mind, consider this: Has a baby in the womb or a child of two ever committed a personal sin? Or, how about the mentally challenged who do not have the use of their intellects and wills? These cannot sin because in order to sin a person has to know the act he is about to perform is sinful while freely engaging his will in carrying it out.
Without the proper faculties to enable them to sin, children before the age of accountability and anyone who does not have the use of his intellect and will cannot sin. Right there you have millions of exceptions to Romans and I John Yes, there is. Indeed, there is much biblical support, but in this brief post I shall cite just three examples, among the eight, as I said before, that give us biblical support for this ancient doctrine of the Faith.
Many Protestants will insist this text to be little more than a common greeting of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary. What was it about this greeting that was so uncommon for Mary to react this way? There are at least two key reasons:. First , according to many biblical scholars as well as Pope St. John Paul II, the angel did more than simply greet Mary. The angel actually communicated a new name or title to her.
But in Hebrew culture, names, and name changes, tell us something that is permanent about the character and calling of the one named. In each case, the names reveal something permanent about the one named.
God revealed to us volumes about his divine nature in and through the revelation of his name—God is pure being with no beginning and no end; he is all perfection, etc. When you add to this the fact that St. They would have absolutely no cooperation or communion with Satan and sin.
It was necessary that Mary not have a fallen nature since any participation in original sin or actual sin would destroy the enmity with Satan and sin.
That is the nature of sin: a choice a person makes that rejects the grace He offers to us, which is His very life and love. If Mary is filled with grace, then she would have been completely free from sin, because any sin, even the tiniest, would have caused her to be deprived of at least some grace. How exactly did God preserve Mary from original sin? Mary needed Christ to redeem her just as much as we all do. God is eternal and transcendent, and therefore He is not bound by either space or time.
He sees all of time—past, present, and future—at once. It is like looking at a very long train from a helicopter.
The engines are creation, the caboose the end of the world, and we are somewhere in between the two. God operates outside of time.
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