[Campion]

Jesus created his own Mother. Jesus obeyed the Law perfectly. Jesus obeyed the Commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother" perfectly. Nobody could be "honored perfectly" by being created in a state of sinful estrangement from God. Therefore, Mary wasn't.

I don't understand why that's even controversial.

[boatbums]

What I don’t understand is, if this is such an all-important belief that Christians must accept, why God didn’t see fit to include it in His sacred word? I can show you in multiple places in Scripture that Jesus IS Almighty God incarnate (in the flesh) and He was sinless so that He could be the perfect, spotless sacrifice for the sins of the world. There’ zip about Mary being that. I would think it shouldn’t take twelve centuries for the church to finally get around to defining that dogma. Did Jesus teach His Apostles to believe it? Did the Apostles believe it? Did they teach others to believe it? No. That’s why I disagree with it. It has nothing to do with dishonoring Mary.