THEOLOGY The Virgin Birth & Sinlessness Some have argued that a virgin birth provides no help in explaining the sinlessness of Jesus. Since Mary herself was sinful (which has been the historic position of the Church, except for the Roman Catholic Church since 1854 when they introduced the immaculate conception of Mary. In 1950 began the Church began to teach the assumption of Mary into heaven. This view holds that the taint of corruption would be conveyed by one parent as really as by two. Is such a view logical? Does it not only take one parent to pass on a sinful human nature? Freedom from the Slightest Stain of Sin In contrast to Mary, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit a divine, creative miracle wrought in the production of this new humanity which secured, from its earliest germinal beginnings, freedom from the slightest taint of sin. Paternal generation in such an origin is superfluous since the birth of Jesus was the birth of a divine Person—already existing in His divine nature as the logos—but now entering this new mode of existence as divine and human: Godhood and Manhood. Only a miracle could effect such a wonder!
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