It still boggles my mind that any authentic believers could construe Mary as sinless.
If ANY human could be sinless, then Christ’s death was unnecessary.
“It still boggles my mind that any authentic believers could construe Mary as sinless.”
Rather substanialy the majority of Christians, being Latins and Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, do exactly that, Q!
“If ANY human could be sinless, then Christ’s death was unnecessary.”
Oh, not at all. In fact no matter if one ascribes to the Western atonement theory of salvation or the Eastern resurrectional concept, the result is the same. The perfect effect of Christ’s death is a sinless life through a perfect response to grace...which is just what the Theotokos did.