Because she was full of grace.
A wonderful read void of any of the hocus-pocus found in Brand-X.
or was Jesus the son of a Roman soldier ?
I do disagree with you.
Jesus is sinless because he is God. Not having a human father has nothing to do with it. "Brand Y" is confused, muddled, and dabbling with heterodox Christology, as usual.
Thus the Catholic concept of “Immaculate Conception”.
(often misconstrued as meaning Mary conceived without having relations with a man, actually refers to the fact that she herself was conceived without sin)
This is a great way to spend time
Talking about things we CAN’T POSSIBLY KNOW as if it makes a difference
what is Immaculate Conception for $300, Alex
I hate when people over think things
So, from the Reformed perspective, there is no explanation.
It just is.
It's not, really, since it fails to answer the question. The question was "Why wasn't Mary's sin passed on to Jesus?"
While this exposition of scripture accurately reflects basic christian doctrine, it would be wholly unsatisfactory an answer to any non-christian.
The only answer to the question one can draw from this is "because it wasn't."
It’s still BREATHTAKING!
The sin nature is passed from the fathers to the children (Romans), presumably in the act of conception. Since Jesus was conceived without normal sexual relations ... the sin nature was not passed to him from a human father ... and He could be born of a human woman without the sin nature.
The scriptures repeatedly speak of the sins/iniquities of the father being passed on to the children, but I don’t remember reading that the sins/iniquities of the mother being passed on. Paul says Eve was deceived but Adam sinned.
2Cr 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
For those who believe no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t believe no explanation is possible. I believe God is the second person of the God Trinity and his mother was without sin.
I put these sorts of questions in my basket of questions I hope to ask God one day. I have a hard enough time working on not sinning so much myself that I try to spend little or no time dealing with the sins of others...
The short and true answer is that Mary was selected to be the mother of God before she was born. Her mother St. Anne was blessed by the Holy Spirit in order than the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary be immaculate. Hence the immaculate conception.
Unfortunately many Catholics believe that the immaculate conception has to do with the birth of Jesus Christ.
A protestant pastor with a rigorous system of theology, the late Robert Thieme, theorized that the sin nature is passed only by the father to the offspring. I can buy this part of his theology, but little else.
Hard to explain in the days of womens “rights” but Man bears the responsibility, not his woman. Sin is passed down by the seed of man, not woman.
Yes its a loophole in the law, but then God wrote the book on it.
That is why the virgin birth was such and issue, and why Mary did not need to be sinless to have a sinless child.
She may have been the greatest of women in the world, but she still had sin in her flesh from her father. But due to the Grace of God, that turned out to not be an issue.