Jeremy Fraize :
It is striking how certain Roman Catholic doctrines concerning Mary require verses to be pressed far beyond their natural sense in order to sustain later dogmatic developments. What would immediately be labeled heresy if Protestants handled Scripture in the same way is routinely defended when it serves Marian teaching.
Consider Mary’s own words in the Magnificat. In Luke 1:46–47 she declares, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” By calling God her Savior she implicitly acknowledges her own need of salvation—the very confession that Scripture elsewhere makes universal: “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). The New Testament nowhere exempts her from that verdict.
The dogma of the Assumption (formally defined only in 1950) has no clear biblical foundation. Scripture is silent on the manner of Mary’s death or departure. Yet Romans 6:23 states without qualification that “the wages of sin is death.” If Mary truly died, the logic of that verse would place her under the same sentence that falls on every other descendant of Adam. The insistence that she was preserved from both original and actual sin, and therefore from death’s ordinary claim, is a later theological construct, not an apostolic teaching.
Scripture is unambiguous on this point: only one human being has ever lived without sin—Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:15; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22). To ascribe sinlessness, mediatorship, or a treasury of grace to Mary is to transfer to a creature attributes that belong uniquely to the Son. It diminishes the sufficiency of Christ’s sole mediatorship (1 Timothy 2:5) and the direct access believers now have through the torn veil (Hebrews 4:14–16; 10:19–22). Once sealed by the Spirit, the believer is taught by the same Spirit to cry “Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6). No secondary intercessor is required.
The grace that rested upon Mary—“full of grace” (Luke 1:28)—is the same grace extended to every regenerate believer. The New Testament applies the language of election, favor, and the indwelling Spirit to the entire church, not to one privileged individual. Elevating Mary’s role beyond what Scripture
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