re what was the immaculate conception in article may athos rutgers edu seanna bnr ca seanna s m watson writes in article may athos rutgers edu jhpb sarto budd lake nj us joseph h buehler writes referring to mary she was immaculately conceived and so never subject to original sin but also never committed a personal sin in her whole life this was possible because of the special degree of grace granted to her by god i have quite a problem with the idea that mary never committed a sin was mary fully human if it is possible for god to miraculously make a person free of original sin and free of committing sin their whole life then what is the purpose of the incarnation of jesus why can t god just repeat the miracle done for mary to make all the rest of us sinless without the need for repentance and salvation and all that concept of mary s sinlessness seems to me to be at odds with the rest of christian doctrine as i understand it it s always a two way street god gave her the grace to avoid sin thus when she was visited by gabriel she gave her fiat her total acceptance of god s will this fiat summarizes why catholics regard her as the highest of all humans that god chose her and that she accepted knowing this in advance we extrapolate that she was neither stained by nor subject to original sin god did create us all miraculously free to choose or not choose to sin sufficient for the day is the evil thereof and the grace of god to command it this amount of grace was precisely determined by god to be the amount required to do what god asked of her the grace given to each of us is also enough but we do not always choose to accept it we also believe jesus was fully human and never sinned god could have created a much better person than myself one who always chose the right thing yet he created me instead despite my flaws he proves he loves me as i am continually drawing me towards perfection for whatever purpose he has for me he has confidence that i will accomplish it if i ask god to repeat his miraculous creation of the mother of his son where will that leave me joe moore
