How Can
Mary be Without Sin When She Proclaims God is Her Savior
In Luke 1:46-48 Mary sings praise to the Lord . . . "My soul magnifies the
Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the
lowliness of his servant." Many ask if Mary was without sin then why would she
need to be saved? What did she need to be saved from? If she needed to be
saved then how could she be without sin?
Lets look at a parable*:
Once there was a village that was terrorized by a horrible beast. The villagers
decided to dig a pit to try to capture the beast. They dug the pit along one of the
paths that the beast had been known to frequent and they covered it with branches
and leafs hoping the beast would fall in. One day one of the men from the village
was running along the path and forgot the pit was there and fell in. He called for
the Lord to save him from the pit and God lifted him out, brushed him off, and placed him
back on the path. Another day a woman was walking along the path. She stepped
on the branches and as she tethered on the edge of falling into the pit the Lord saved her
and prevented her from falling without her uttering a single word.
I believe that all Christians can agree that Jesus died on the cross to save us from
eternal damnation. We are like the man that fell into the pit. Jesus
died on the cross to save us from our sins, to lift us out of the pit.
Let us look at Mary for a moment. If she was without sin as the Catholic
church proclaims then why would she (as she said in her own words) need to be saved?
Scripture says that God will send us a savior and He will come from the House
of David. This Savior had to become man and had to suffer and die in order to save
us from our transgressions against God. If this savior then was to truly become man
then he had to be born and raised by a human family. The God child had to be carried
in the womb of a human mother for nine months in order to be truly human. Since this
vessel had to carry God then it had to be pure.
Therefore Mary had to be pure and without sin to give birth to Jesus, our Savior. Like
the woman in the parable that was saved (in advance and without asking) from falling into
the pit, Mary was truly save by Jesus, in advance, before he even died for the redemption
of mankind, so she could fulfill Gods will and carry the future Savior.
Without the Lord prescribing the future task of carrying Jesus in her womb she would
have never been born free of sin.
Joseph K. Abell MI |
