If Mary was born without original sin how come God could not have created the rest of us without original sin instead of having Jesus die on the cross

[WilliamVarga]

If God was able to create Mary without original sin how come he did not simply create the rest of us without original sin instead of having Our Lord die on the cross? I’m sure there is a simple answer to this that the people more educated than myself could easily come up with but I cannot for the life of me find it myself.

 

[CaptainPrudeman]

Being created without original sin doesn’t guarantee sinlessness. Just ask Adam and Eve.

 

[WilliamVarga]

True, but my understanding was that baptism washed away original sin but we still needed to continuously repent of sins committed throughout our lives using the rite of confession. Couldn’t God have made us without original sin like he did Mary essentially bypassing the need for baptism and just required us to go to confession or repent privately in prayer like Jews have done since before Christ?

 

[Latin]

If God would willed, He would created Adam and Eve and all of us that we never commit even a single act of sin.

God bless

 

[CaptainPrudeman]

Baptism and confession highlight our own weakness and the mercy of God more than those other ideas.

 

[Vico]

… Couldn’t God have made us without original sin like he did Mary …

She was know by God to give assent to be pregnant with the Son of God before her conception, and has a unique role to play. We must be confirmed in our charity before our victorious crowing.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

310 … But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. …

311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. …

1264 Yet certain temporal consequences of sin remain in the baptized, such as suffering, illness, death, and such frailties inherent in life as weaknesses of character, and so on, as well as an inclination to sin that Tradition calls concupiscence, or metaphorically, “the tinder for sin” (fomes peccati); since concupiscence "is left for us to wrestle with, it cannot harm those who do not consent but manfully resist it by the grace of Jesus Christ."66 Indeed, "an athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules."67

 

[aThomist]

Mary’s immaculate life is a product of Christ death on the Christ.

For trou his Son’s death on the cross she is saved from sin in a way that she is saved falling to sin
And also the Death of Jesus on the Cross doesn’t just saved the soul of those present in time or those on the future but also souls from the past

And that includes the soul of mary
being born even before the birth of the incarnate Christ

 

[Tis_Bearself]

God “Could Have” done that, or anything else he wanted.
He chose not to do that.
Perhaps one day you will meet him and then you can ask him why.
For now, it’s more humble to accept God’s will without a lot of “whys”.

I suspect it was because people don’t value what they don’t earn; Adam for instance.

 

[Genesis315]

As the Church teaches, Mary was preserved from original sin because it was “wholly fitting” in her special case as the Mother of God and new Eve.

However, for the rest of us, God has seen it fitting to have “consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.” (Rom. 11:32). He wants us to come to Him for the gifts of salvation, to call upon Him, and to be born again. Like He did for Mary, He still gives us everything we need to obey the commandments and be saved, just at different times and in different ways. Just as in the parable of the workers in the vineyard, He calls each of us at different times and ways (cf. Matt 20).

Also, as other’s noted, Mary’s redemption was just as much a fruit of Christ’s redeeming work as anyone’s, pre or post Christ’s Incarnation.

 

[porthos11]

If God was able to create Mary without original sin how come he did not simply create the rest of us without original sin instead of having Our Lord die on the cross? I’m sure there is a simple answer to this that the people more educated than myself could easily come up with but I cannot for the life of me find it myself.

You’re missing something.

Mary’s preservation from original sin was still due to the action of Jesus on the cross. He still died for her. It’s just, by his almighty power, God applied the fruits of his sacrifice in advance, since God is not subject to time.

 

[Gab123]

Because people would have sinned against God again. Adam and Eve were created without sin.

After the fall, the consequence of original sin entered the world and Adam and Eve and their descendants suffered the consequence of their sin. People today even after baptism still fall into sin, the difference is that because of Christ’s atonement their sins can be washed clean in His blood through repentance and confession and be saved and have access to heaven.

In Genesis 3:15, God promised to send a savior, born of a woman (Mary). It was through Mary that God took flesh and entered into the world to: 1) Redeem the human race . 2) Teach us the the way of Truth and show us the way by example. (Carrying the cross, death to self) 3) Save us from our sins through the process of sanctification namely through the sacraments.

The Seven <sacraments were instituted by Christ to give us sanctifying grace. Jesus Christ forged a path for us to follow, and He gives us the sacraments, which are like fountains of sanctifying grace available to us in overflowing measures in order to empower us to say NO to sin and allow God to weave holiness out of a once wretched soul. The whole point of life is to glorify God. Here is a brief talk:

 

[SPBlitz]

God was able to create Mary without original sin how come he did not simply create the rest of us without original sin instead of having Our Lord die on the cross? I’m sure there is a simple answer to this that the people more educated than myself could easily come up with but I cannot for the life of me find it myself

The way I heard it was that Mary was still saved through Jesus’ sacrifice, it just applied retroactively to her from the moment of her birth.

 

[Gorgias]

True, but my understanding was that baptism washed away original sin but we still needed to continuously repent of sins committed throughout our lives using the rite of confession. Couldn’t God have made us without original sin like he did Mary essentially bypassing the need for baptism and just required us to go to confession or repent privately in prayer like Jews have done since before Christ?

Reconciliation is a sacrament of the Church, which Jesus founded in the course of His ministry, and following His passion / death / resurrection. I’m not seeing how you’re suggesting that we “cherry-pick” the sacraments out of the context in which they exist, and in the absence of Christ’s incarnation.

repent privately in prayer like Jews have done since before Christ

Repentance =/= absolution (or divine forgiveness). These were not available in the context of the Mosaic covenant.

 

[Serpent_of_Paradise]

Jesus can be called a new Adam, thus Mary is a new Eve. The original blessed state of the first Adam and Eve was lost by their freewill choice. But, after that choice, God pointed at the conflict between Eve and her seed with the serpent. That original purity and blessing was a gift from God; promised again in the Redeemer. That blessing was received again in Mary, from God whom she bore. And whom she freely chose to be the mother of, undoing Eve’s choice. It is to be fully restored to all after the general resurrection. (In my opinion.)