Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Honestly?

I dunno, it's a Roman Catholic thing - it's not something I personally believe and it's relatively recent (like 600 years) as an idea. I believe it stems from the belief that in order to carry God, Mary would have had to have been a pure vessel, but that begs the question of her own mother - which implies the problem of infinite regression.

This isn't a problem in earlier medieval theology because Original Sin is inherited via the father, not the mother. That has some interesting implications for what the Original Sin actually was.

Personally, I believe it was not the eating of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge but trying to hide afterwards, when Adam and Eve tried to deceive God despite​ knowing it was wrong.
I honestly never heard the idea that Mary was without sin generally speaking. I have heard that she was somewhat of a prude, sure. But that she of all the people would be without sin for me comes off as a big conundrum.

I mean, I thought we were all sinners and that that was the whole point of Jesus speeches, as well as the basis for more or less the whole of Christianity (that he died for our sins).

To then hear that there obviously are people walking around without sin, would kind of shake the roots of Christianity as I understand it. Or was she for some reason or another special in any way?