@Alicia_Bittle_..Virgin Mary was sinless, and yes, it’s in scripture...Angel Gabriel addresses her.. renamed her..“Kecharitomene," which means you who have always been, currently are and always will be FULL of grace. We know this because the Greek word kecharitomene ("full of grace"), is a perfect passive participle, coming from the root word charitoo, or grace...
The Virgin Mary was sinless, and yes, it’s in scripture.
When the Angel Gabriel addresses her, if we pay attention to grammar, he renamed her as well as he states “Hail, full of grace!”
The specific word he uses in the original Greek language that the book of Luke was written in is “Kecharitomene," which means you who have always been, currently are and always will be FULL of grace.
We know this because the Greek word kecharitomene ("full of grace"), is a perfect passive participle, coming from the root word charitoo, or grace, meaning “to fill or endow with grace." It denotes an action having taken place in the past, before the announcement of the angel, and one that continues throughout her existence.
This means, and can only mean, that Mary was spared from original sin at her conception and remained sinless throughout her life.
This is the only reason she was able to bear God.
If we remember, the only other object to bear God (the ark of the covenant) killed whoever touched it because they were soiled with sin and God is obviously sinless.
Just simply brushing against something so holy was too much for a sinful human body to take.
This is why Mary had to be without sin if she were to bear God.
She was the ark of the New Covenant.
However, just because she was sinless, does not mean she was equivalent to God. Sinlessness is just one of the many, many, characteristics that must be met by God to be God.
Mary was not omnipotent or omnipresent. She was not creator, only a humble creation. And that’s what makes her so inspiring.
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