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Mary was born in sin as all of the children of Eve have been and ever will be.

What is your view of Original Sin? Is it a blot on our souls passed from one generation to the next? Here's my view: Covenantal History.

He took upon Himself MY sin and punishment thereof, and gave ME His righteousness; the only task I have is to count it as the priceless, invaluable gift it is; and live accordingly.

Wait... task? I thought what Christ did on the Cross was complete and no more is to be done...? Now you're telling me you have a role to play in your own salvation. Next, you'll be telling me that God gave us His Church and Her leaders to help propagate and explain the faith... but then, you would just about be Catholic...

Stop reading men’s words and focus on the standard of God’s Holy and perfect Word, as expressed in the Bible.

Again, this statement is at once ironic, ignorant, and a false piety. Men wrote the Bible through the inspiration of God. By your way of belief, the Holy Spirit then hushed and let us read the Bible for the rest of time. But wait... that would mean there was no Church (which Christ said He would build; Matt 16:18) and no guidance (which Christ told us we would have; John 14:16) until Gutenberg gave us the printing press 1500 years later so all could read and memorize their Bibles. Before then, we had monks faithfully copying for the Churches and the people hearing ("faith comes through hearing"; Romans 10:17) in the Liturgy of the Word during Mass... back when we were one Faith.

Just because we can mass produce Bibles today doesn't mean that the Protestant world-view would have stood the test of time in the ancient Church. It can be reasonably argued that the Protestant Reformation was made possible by the printing press... and it is this mechanism which enables them to maintain the fiction of Sola Scriptura. God gave us other means that lasted without the graces of St Gutenberg.