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now i know as catholics we believe that mary never sinned but why does the bible say that the only person that was perfect was jesus
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LilyM
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Lots of other people never sin - unborn babies don’t sin, neither do severely mentally ill people (to sin requires sufficient intellect to understand what you are doing).
And the verse most often quoted in support of your idea is ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. Well there are many places in the Bible where ‘all’ doesn’t literally mean ‘all’, but is a rhetorical exaggeration.
For example ‘all of Judea and Jerusalem’ came to hear Jesus preaching - do you think literally every man, woman and child in the whole region did so? Of course not.
And the verse most often quoted in support of your idea is ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. Well there are many places in the Bible where ‘all’ doesn’t literally mean ‘all’, but is a rhetorical exaggeration.
For example ‘all of Judea and Jerusalem’ came to hear Jesus preaching - do you think literally every man, woman and child in the whole region did so? Of course not.
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scylla
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No, Mary did not sin.
(all Christians believed this up until a few hundred years ago)
The Bible does not say that Jesus is the only one without sin.
I know some people have made different Bibles than the rest of Christianity, but even those do not say that.
Give us a few more hundred years and you will have groups who believe that Jesus sinned and had kids. As time goes by the truth becomes more and more muddled the farther people get from Catholicism.
Look at Jesus as God and you will see that Mary did not sin. But neither have babies, retarded people and angels. Just because we sin doesn’t mean that others have to. Sin is not required it is something we choose to do and pretty much all of us do it except for those few exceptions.
(well, now that we are killing hundreds of babies these days the exceptions are much more numerous)
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Scylla
(all Christians believed this up until a few hundred years ago)
The Bible does not say that Jesus is the only one without sin.
I know some people have made different Bibles than the rest of Christianity, but even those do not say that.
Give us a few more hundred years and you will have groups who believe that Jesus sinned and had kids. As time goes by the truth becomes more and more muddled the farther people get from Catholicism.
Look at Jesus as God and you will see that Mary did not sin. But neither have babies, retarded people and angels. Just because we sin doesn’t mean that others have to. Sin is not required it is something we choose to do and pretty much all of us do it except for those few exceptions.
(well, now that we are killing hundreds of babies these days the exceptions are much more numerous)
In Christ
Scylla
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Ohwesty
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I personally believe that John the Baptist never sinned. He was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb and Jesus said there was “no greater man born of woman than John the Baptist.” (Mt 11:11)
So was Jesus excluding Himself? He must have been, which leads us to assume there are also other examples of perfect holiness.
So was Jesus excluding Himself? He must have been, which leads us to assume there are also other examples of perfect holiness.
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