[free_life]

I see where your beliefs differ. Catholics believe in the Immaculate Conception, and Protestants don't. For the record, Catholics believe that God granted Mary to be born without Original Sin so that she would be worthy of carrying His Only Son. NOT that Mary herself was some kind of god who was born immaculate.

And scriptural proof of that belief is what?

That is the importance... the absolute necessity of using the word of God as the authority of doctrine not just a man made belief.

[Tired of Taxes]

You can read an explanation right here.

QUOTE:

When discussing the Immaculate Conception, an implicit reference may be found in the angel’s greeting to Mary. The angel Gabriel said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Luke 1:28). The phrase "full of grace" is a translation of the Greek word kecharitomene. It therefore expresses a characteristic quality of Mary.

The traditional translation, "full of grace," is better than the one found in many recent versions of the New Testament, which give something along the lines of "highly favored daughter." Mary was indeed a highly favored daughter of God, but the Greek implies more than that (and it never mentions the word for "daughter"). The grace given to Mary is at once permanent and of a unique kind.Kecharitomene is a perfect passive participle of charitoo, meaning "to fill or endow with grace." Since this term is in the perfect tense, it indicates that Mary was graced in the past but with continuing effects in the present. So, the grace Mary enjoyed was not a result of the angel’s visit. In fact, Catholics hold, it extended over the whole of her life, from conception onward. She was in a state of sanctifying grace from the first moment of her existence.