[metmom]

I was just about to reply to Mom's post when I noticed yours being spot on. The East most certainly believes in the perpetual dignity and sinless purity of Mary as long as she lived on earth.

The the Bible lied when it states that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and that there is none that are righteous.

Nobody is without sin. Mary wasn't or she wouldn't have recognized her need for a savior.

[bronx2]

Everyman/women their own pope: “Nobody is without sin”. You have the unmitigated audacity to write this tripe and exercise faulty interpretative knowledge of scripture when you have ostensibly refused to acknowledge christian friendship thereby disavowing belief in Christianity.

Either you are or are not a christian. Remember well Lk 12:9 and Mt 10:33 before replying.

God have mercy on your soul

[kosta50]

The the Bible lied when it states that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and that there is none that are righteous

The East believes that Mary was cleansed of all sin at the moment of Annunciation and has not sinned since her submission. If she were sinless, by nature, as the Immaculate Conception claims, then she would not need a savior and would not have died (actually the Catholic Church never explicitly states that she died, but the East most definitely does).