Sorry for the shorthand. Of course it is not the same. Both Mary and you and I were cleansed once. Mary was cleansed as she was conceived. She was simply made clean. You and I got cleansed later on in life through baptism. That is the difference in the moment of the cleaning I was speaking of.
“Mary was cleansed as she was conceived. She was simply made clean.”
Mary cleansed? By what means? Animal sacrifice, Blood of Christ? Baptism? If by none of these then by what means and who performed this cleansing?
And if so cleansed would Mary need to offer sacrifices for sins later? or be baptized? Or put faith in Christ’s sacrifice as an adult?
This sounds like too important a concept for the Scriptures to be completely silent on so where can I find the basis for saying Mary was conceived without sin or “cleansed as she was conceived”?