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"it's enough of a blasphemy to say "Mary was sinless.""

Come on now! Why is this blasphemy? Christ cannot provide graces to Mary that He doesn't provide to others? I would denying Christ's ability to create Mary sinless through His graces is blasphemy. He provided graces to Moses to part the sea, provide water from a rock ... Why is it blasphemy to say Mary was sinless? Is sinless beyond 'death to all firstborn males'? If so, to what magnitude and by whose law and understanding? Mary is the Mother of God. She was made sinless by Christ, not herself. It is a grace from God. Moses was not the Mother of God and he received graces before Christ redeemed us all. Moses lead His people and accepted God's law but he did not give birth to The Word. Saying she was and is sinless is no blasphemy. God created all and redeemed everything, including Mary. What rule has God broken by accomplishing sinlessness in his mother?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Christ cannot provide graces to Mary that He doesn't provide to others?

But this shows you do not understand "justification" either.

All men are fallen and we sin until we breath our last breathe. But by the grace of God, Christ has paid for every one of those sins which enables us to stand blameless and acquitted of our trespasses before God. As we are sanctified by the Holy Spirit we learn to loathe our sins; we are turned by the will of God from the darkness to the light, and we will sin less and less. But we will never be without sin because we are still creatures, still human, still dependent on Him alone.

Mary is the Mother of God

No, to believe that would be to believe something predated God Himself. Blasphemy.

Mary is the mother of the man, Jesus Christ. As has been asked repeatedly and correctly, is Mary the mother of the Godhead?

No.

When a Protestant sees a Catholic on his knees before a statue of Mary, we say a prayer for your salvation. It's no small thing "to fall down to the stock of a tree."