kepha31
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That is a man made tradition, contrary to consistent Church teaching and contrary to the early reformers.Mary was born under the curse of Adam, and because of that she inherited the sin nature that all people have. The curse and sin nature (of Adam) is passed down through the fathers DNA to both male and female children. Even if you do not believe in Augustine's original sin, this curse and sin nature still guarantees that anyone born under it will be a sinner condemned of their own sins. Mary was not immune to this inherited curse and sin nature. Therefore Mary did sin. She was not sinless. The bible does not say anywhere that she was sinless, or even suggest it. Jesus however had God as His father through divinely wrought conception. Therefore this curse and sin nature was not spread to Him. He is all God and all man at the same time. This is my understanding anyway..
When Fundamentalists study the writings of the Reformers on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, they will find that the Reformers accepted almost every major Marian doctrine and considered these doctrines to be both scriptural and fundamental to the historic Christian Faith.
Throughout his life Luther maintained without change the historic Christian affirmation that Mary was the Mother of God:
"She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God.
Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], volume 24, 107.
Perpetual Virginity: Again throughout his life Luther held that Mary's perpetual virginity was an article of faith for all Christians - and interpreted Galatians 4:4 to mean that Christ was "born of a woman" alone.
"It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a Virgin." Martin Luther, op. cit., Volume 11, 319-320.
The Immaculate Conception
Yet again the Immaculate Conception was a doctrine Luther defended to his death (as confirmed by Lutheran scholars like Arthur Piepkorn). Like Augustine, Luther saw an unbreakable link between Mary's divine maternity, perpetual virginity and Immaculate Conception.
Although his formulation of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was not clear-cut, he held that her soul was devoid of sin from the beginning:
"But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin..."
Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St.Louis], Volume 4, 694.
"The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart." Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p.313.
"Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing."
Luther made this statement in his last sermon at Wittenberg in January 1546.
Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Volume 51, 128-129.
Martin Luther invented sola scriptura. I believe in revealed truth as it has been handed down from Jesus and the Apostles, orally and in writing.
You believe in whatever you choose.
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