No human entered into heaven until
after Christ's regenerative work was finished on the cross. Adam's sin prevented all humans from entering into heaven to be with God the Father.
John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. rsv
Absolutely.
I do know that Mary, Jesus' mother, was conceived without original sin and I also know that Mary never personally sinned. Eve chose to sin, but Mary did not ever choose to sin. Mary was already spiritually "one" with God at her conception because the Father chose Mary and blessed her to be the Mother of His Incarnate Son, Jesus. Mary's DNA had to be pure/perfect/not corrupted by Adam's sin in order for Jesus' human DNA to be pure. Therefore Mary is the new Eve and Jesus is the new Adam. Both are without sin just as Adam and Eve were without sin before they fell from grace.
1 Corinthians 15:45
Thus it is written, “The
first man
Adam became a living being”; the
last Adam became a life-giving spirit. rsv
These ideas you speak about Mary are mostly new concepts to me. I have not read anywhere in the Bible that she had somehow escaped original sin unless she was not a daughter of Adam and Even. If she did, she certainly could live a sinless life, despite the temptations of the world she, like Christ, could easily resist them if she was as Holy as you say.
I don't agree with her not being born into sin like the rest of humanity, but I would agree that she may have been made fully sanctified the moment the Holy Spirit descended upon her, and granted her the child that she would name Jesus. The boy that would grow up being both fully man, and fully God.
I do not understand the need to elevate Mary to more than what she was, chosen and human. Just like Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, and the modern Christian. Chosen for grand purposes to bring about the will of God in His playing out of the divine story. All prone to mistakes and growth in their walk to please God.
Jesus saved Mary at the instant of her conception by the merits of His own sacrifice in the same manner (outside of time constraints) as He gave His apostles His literal Flesh and His literal Blood to eat and drink before He physically died on the cross. Matthew 26:26-29
God is not subject to the constraints of time and space. Past, Present, and Future are all ever-present to Him, therefore God's works were finished before the foundation of the world. (This is not the thread to discuss this topic in detail.)
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest,’” although
his works were finished from the foundation of the world. rsv
If I believed Mary was without original sin, as you do, she would have no need for the merits of Christ's sacrifice. If I did not believe she was without any sin at all, then she would be forgiven as we all are because of His sacrifice.
I do not consume the literal flesh and blood of Christ no more than the apostles did in His presence at the Last Supper. God's humanity shines through at the pleasure it brought in breaking bread and sharing drink with His followers, whom He loved. He then told them to do exactly this (that is to eat the bread, and drink the cup), in remembrance. The Lord's Supper is symbolic in that we have fellowship among followers of Christ, remembering the His sacrifice of body and blood for us.
I agree that God is not bound to the laws of time. He create the very thing in which we use to determine it.
And today when a person dies, he is not permitted to go to be with God the Father unless first Jesus approves him worthy.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father, but by me. rsv
He permits whom the Father has given Him, and not by their own merits are they 'approved' but by His.
"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me. And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me but raise it up on the last day." (John 6:37-39)