I t would have been completely inappropriate for the Mother of the Second Person of the Trinity to have been under the reign of sin. In our time we have lost both a sense of sin and a sense of holiness, so that we may not feel or appreciate the urgency of sinlessness in the Mother of God.There is utter incompatibility between God and sin.
“For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; no evil dwells with You” (Psalm 5:4). God hates sin because He is holy; holiness is the most exalted of all His attributes (Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 6:8). His holiness totally saturates His being. His holiness epitomizes His moral perfection and His absolute freedom from blemish of any kind (Psalm 89:35; 92:15; Romans 9:14).
The Bible presents God’s attitude toward sin with strong feelings of hostility, disgust, and utter dislike. For example, sin is described as putrefying sores (Isaiah 1:6, NKJV), a heavy burden (Psalm 38:4), defiling filth (Titus 1:15; 2 Corinthians 7:1), a binding debt (Matthew 6:12-15), darkness (1 John 1:6) and a scarlet stain (Isaiah 1:18). Do you thinmk the above could be true of the woman of whom Christ would take his flesh--- which is to say, from whom He would assume His whole human nature? It's simply impossible, By God’s grace, Mary had to be a worthy mother of His son. Surely she could not have been spiritually inferior to any other woman.
But Eve, at the beginning of her existence was free from sin. Adam, too. They were perfect. They tyupified "Human Nature-Plan A" --- the kind of human nature that God intended when He fashioned them according to His holy will and established them in the Garden of Eden (which means "Garden of Delight." All that, of course, was ruined after they used their free will to defile and deform themselves by disobedience.
But Eve was --- before sin --- a picture of human perfection. Now why, would God choose a woman who was inferior to that, inferior even to Eve, to be the MOther of His Son, for Him to dwell in her for nine months, nourished by her blood and being totally enfolded and clothed with her humanity --- Mary's humanity ---, when in fact He cannot stand, cannot tolerate, cannot abide in sin?
The sinlessness of Mary is foretold multiple times in the Old Testament, for those who have a true openness to the beautiful truths found in these precious Scrpitural foretellings (LINK)
Have a blessed weekend! In being the mother of God she was to be “purest of virgins to bring forth your Son.”
Have you been saved by grace?
If yes, then you are favored with God's grace.
If not, then you need to be saved.
However, the word in question in Luke 1:28 is not translated as full of grace. It is you favored with grace.
It is not a title. It is a greeting.
But Eve, at the beginning of her existence was free from sin.
Again...this is not biblical in any regard.
This will be my last post on this thread.