1 John 3:9, "He who is born of GOD does not commit sin."
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Written by Bob Stanley, August 3, 1999
Updated June 14, 2003
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Romans 3:23
"...as
all have sinned and have need of the glory of GOD."
Rom 3:23
Protestants
point to this verse as 'proof' against the Immaculate
Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The
Immaculate Conception means the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived and
born without original sin. However this verse does not even address
'Original Sin', which is imputed to almost all of mankind by the sin of
Adam and Eve. I said almost all, simply because a few did not have
original sin imputed to them, namely Adam, Eve, Jesus Christ, and the New Eve, Blessed Mary.
Romans
3:23 addresses only the sins that we commit of our own free will.
Are there any exceptions to the word
'All'?
What about Jesus Christ? Did He in His humanity ever
sin?
What about babies and those with a mental retardation
who have no reasoning power? Have they sinned? Have children below the
age of reason sinned? Have comatose and senile people sinned? As you
can see, there are exceptions.
Luke 1:6, regarding
Zachary and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist, "Both were just
before GOD, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances
of the Lord".
Luke 1:15, regarding John the Baptist,
"For he shall be great before the Lord; he shall drink no wine or
strong drink, and shall be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his
mothers womb".
Do these verses sound as if Zachary,
Elizabeth, and John the Baptist have sinned?
You can
readily see that there are many exceptions to the term 'All have
sinned'. Since I have shown there are many exceptions to the word
'ALL', why then should anyone not allow one more exception, the Mother
of GOD?
The Greek word, 'PAS', meaning 'ALL', can
have different meanings as shown in other verses of Holy Scripture.
John
12:19, "The entire world has gone after him!" Did everyone in the
entire world really go after Christ?
Mt 3:5-6,
"Then went out to Him Jerusalem, and ALL Judea, and ALL the region
about the Jordan; and they were baptized by him in the Jordan,
confessing their sins."
Were all of the people of Judea, and
the region about the Jordan baptized?
The phrase
'the whole world', does not really mean everybody in the world. The
words 'whole world' and 'all' are used in several different senses of
Scripture, and seldom do they literally mean all persons.
Rom
11:26, "ALL Israel shall be saved." We know for certain that 'ALL' in
Israel will not be saved.
Rom 15:14, "...you
yourselves are full of love, filled with 'ALL' knowledge..." Here we
know for sure that the only person filled with 'ALL' knowledge is GOD
Himself.
The Greek word 'pas' in many verses in
Scripture simply means a 'great number', or 'a lot'. Since there are
exceptions for Jesus Christ, and for others as shown above, the meaning
could be seen as, 'ALL are subject to sin'. In the case of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, a prevention of sin was brought about by a special grace
from GOD.
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