Was Mary sinless?

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MOF: We won’t even stop to correct the claim that to be sinless means to be Deity. The two are not identical. Adam and Eve were sinless before they fell, but they were not Deities.

This argument from Rom3:23, like so many others that lift individual passages from Scripture, is seen to be wrong because it proves too much.

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If taken at its face value, it would have to include Jesus Christ as well, if we accept that Christ was True Man as well as True God. The Greek says, 'All men have sinned.'

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The Catholic attitude, which I take to be intelligent and wise, is to look carefully at what was said, by whom, in response to what contest. Paul was answering the Jews who believed that keeping the Law saved them – and by implication, that the Death of Christ was superfluous.

The Bible does not say everything all the time. It is a mistake to take isolated verses and apply them to completely different problems or issues. Yet this is the constant practice of Bible Only Christians. That is one reason why I find their argumentation unconvincing.

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The Bible is our Scrapbook, inspired by God; but it belongs to the Catholic Church, who compiled and preserved it. It is not a systematic exposition of The Faith. That was done from the Fourth Century, as soon as the Persecutions had ceased.