The one verse is the greeting of the angel to Mary, “Hail, full of grace.”
There was no original sin on her soul. She was, indeed, “full of grace.”
“The one verse is the greeting of the angel to Mary, “Hail, full of grace.””
And this is wrong. The Greek does not say “full of grace.”
“There was no original sin on her soul. She was, indeed, “full of grace.””
She was as sinful as every human in all history. Only Christ was without sin. She was the recipient of God’s grace by being chosen to bear Messiah.
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Mary and Grace
The word grace used in this passage in Luke is used in one other place in the Bible and that is Ephesians 1 where Paul is us that with this same grace, God has blessed us (believers) in the Beloved. IOW, we all have access to that grace and it has been bestowed on us all.
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Luke 1:28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
Ephesians 1:4-6 In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Greek word “grace”
charitoó: to make graceful, endow with grace
Original Word: χαριτόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: charitoó
Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-to'-o)
Short Definition: I favor, bestow freely on
Definition: I favor, bestow freely on.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 5487 xaritóō (from 5486 /xárisma, "grace," see there) – properly, highly-favored because receptive to God's grace. 5487 (xaritóō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 1:28 and Eph 1:6), both times of God extending Himself to freely bestow grace (favor).
Word Origin: from charis
Definition: to make graceful, endow with grace
NASB Translation: favored (1), freely bestowed (1).
Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds.
If there's no sin, there's no need for grace.
If Mary were sinless, then she didn't need grace.