re what was the immaculate conception biblical basis for the immaculate conception i will put enmity between you the serpent and the woman and between your seed and her seed she can also be read he shall crush your head and you shall bruise her or his heel genesis he who commits sin is of the devil john hail full of grace greek kecharitomene the lord is with thee luke from the above we prove the doctrine of the immaculate conception first god has given the proto evangel in genesis which is the first promise of a savior who will redeem mankind from the wiles of satan satan was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth because there is no truth in him john now the proto evangel promises several things enmity between satan and the woman and enmity between satan and her seed now the woman is both eve who is the immediate point of reference and mary the second eve her seed is jesus christ and he is also at enmity with satan in the same way as mary is said to be at enmity with satan thus knowing as we do that jesus christ is sinless hebrews we can conclude that mary is also sinless because if she wasn t she would not be at enmity with the devil as john tells us and the relation of her sinlessness to christ s sinlessness would be called into question as would god s veracity for god promised an enmity between mary and the serpent and it is not possible for god to lie or be decieved second we have the angelic greeting where mary is called by the archangle gabriel full of grace as i pointed out above this is from the greek word kecharitomene which means not just full of grace but a plenitude or perfection of grace the sense of it is best grasped by the footnote to the jerusalem bible hail you who have been and reamin filled with grace but that is a little to long to say so it is reduced to full of grace and as it says you who have been mary had always been filled with grace from the moment of her conception which was also the moment of her salvation until her death some years later it must be admitted that it is possible that god could have done what the doctrine of the immaclute conception says he did do and if god could keep himself free from any contact with sin through his mother he would have and the bible records this fact to which the fathers of the church such as st john damascus st augustine of hippo st ambrose and others are in complete agreement with as is all of christian tradition and as is the infallible declaration of the pope on the matter in ineffibilus deus andy byler
