I don’t understand the reason for this belief.
***Supreme Reason for the Privilege: The Divine Maternity ***
And indeed it was wholly fitting that so wonderful a mother should be ever resplendent with the glory of most sublime holiness and so completely free from all taint of original sin that she would triumph utterly over the ancient serpent. To her did the Father will to give his only-begotten Son – the Son whom, equal to the Father and begotten by him, the Father loves from his heart – and to give this Son in such a way that he would be the one and the same common Son of God the Father and of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was she whom the Son himself chose to make his Mother and it was from her that the Holy Spirit willed and brought it about that he should be conceived and born from whom he himself proceeds.
Pope Pius lX, Ineffabilis Deus, 8 December 1854
It could be true, but it’s absent from Scripture so I don’t see how it could be proven.
***Interpreters of the Sacred Scripture ***
The Fathers and writers of the Church, well versed in the heavenly Scriptures, had nothing more at heart than to vie with one another in preaching and teaching in many wonderful ways the Virgin’s supreme sanctity, dignity, and immunity from all stain of sin, and her renowned victory over the most foul enemy of the human race. This they did in the books they wrote to explain the Scriptures, to vindicate the dogmas, and to instruct the faithful. These ecclesiastical writers in quoting the words by which at the beginning of the world God announced his merciful remedies prepared for the regeneration of mankind – words by which he crushed the audacity of the deceitful serpent and wondrously raised up the hope of our race, saying, “I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed” [cf.Gn 3:15] – taught that by this divine prophecy the merciful Redeemer of mankind, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was clearly foretold: That his most Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, was prophetically indicated; and, at the same time, the very enmity of both against the evil one was significantly expressed. Hence, just as Christ, the Mediator between God and man, assumed human nature, blotted the handwriting of the decree that stood against us, and fastened it triumphantly to the cross, so the most holy Virgin, united with him by a most intimate and indissoluble bond, was, with him and through him, eternally at enmity with the evil serpent, and most completely triumphed over him, and thus crushed his head with her immaculate foot.
**The Annunciation **
When the Fathers and writers of the Church meditated on the fact that the most Blessed Virgin was, in the name and by order of God himself, proclaimed full of grace[cf. Lk 1:28] by the Angel Gabriel when he announced her most sublime dignity of Mother of God, they thought that this singular and solemn salutation, never heard before, showed that the Mother of God is the seat of all divine graces and is adorned with all gifts of the Holy Spirit. To them Mary is an almost infinite treasury, an inexhaustible abyss of these gifts, to such an extent that she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction. Hence she was worthy to hear Elizabeth, inspired by the Holy Spirit, exclaim: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”[cf. Lk 1:42]
**Biblical Figures **
Accordingly, the Fathers have never ceased to call the Mother of God the lily among thorns, the land entirely intact, the Virgin undefiled, immaculate, ever blessed, and free from all contagion of sin, she from whom was formed the new Adam, the flawless, brightest, and most beautiful paradise of innocence, immortality and delights planted by God himself and protected against all the snares of the poisonous serpent, the incorruptible wood (acacia; Ex 25:10) that the worm of sin had never corrupted, the fountain ever clear and sealed with the power of the Holy Spirit, the most holy temple (Ex 25:8; Hab 2:20), the treasure of immortality, the one and only daughter of life – not of death – (Zech 2:10; Ps 132:13; Is 37:22) the plant not of anger but of grace, through the singular providence of God growing ever green contrary to the common law, coming as it does from a corrupted and tainted root (Is 11:1-10).
Ibid.
You gave a good example of “Christ died on a cross” but He also resurrected and won. His victory over death seems logical to me, as well as its attestation in history.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1,18
Christ’s death and resurrection don’t constitute an
a priori truth, but are matters of faith, in spite of what is explicitly recorded in the Gospels. What we will to believe determines our intellect’s assent to any divine truth revealed in Scripture. Even accepting the veracity of the Scriptures is an assent of faith. If we accept any article of faith, including the Immaculate Conception, it’s because its content appears somewhat reasonable to us despite the intellect’s natural inability to grasp it. It’s true for us because we believe it must be. That it can’t be true seems unreasonable.
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) and nothing can be allowed to change that or defile her in any way. (This leads us off topic slightly in that herein is the case for Mary being ‘ever-virgin’ - which Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Wesley and many others all believed and taught). But the bottom line is this equation: God Himself is 100% pure, devoid of even a hint of sin (or else He isn’t really God then is He?). God therefore WILL NOT ALLOW Himself to be touched, or otherwise affected by sin, or sinners, unless He makes a special provision for it (ex. the men who actually assembled the Ark, the priests who placed things in it, or took things out of it, etc.). Thus, God would NEVER allow for even a slight chance that Satan (the embodiment of sin) might come into contact with Him. Thus, Mary, the Ark for Christ, could not have come into contact with sin either, lest Satan be able to claim that sin touched Christ.
