Shawn Ryan

Doesn't say, eh, except for Mary.

So yes, I believe Mary was a sinner.

I believe we're all sinners.

Mary needed forgiveness just as we all need forgiveness.

So what the conception by the Holy Spirit did is it interrupted that process.

and allow the baby to be born without sin.

So Catholics believe in the Immaculate Conception.

That doesn't refer to the virgin birth of Jesus.

That refers to the conception of Mary.

They believe that Mary's mother was sinless and gave birth to Mary, who was sinless.

I just don't see that evidence in scripture personally.

I just don't see it.

I don't see the evidence of that.

Because even as a sinner, she was apparently a woman.

I love Mary.

I mean, she must have been a remarkable young woman and young woman, teenager.

She must have been a remarkable woman because the angel says that God has found favor in you.

She must have been a woman of great devotion, great faith, great love for God and for people, of all humankind.

Why did he choose this teenager to be the vessel through whom the God of the universe, Jesus, would be incarnated into our world?

What was it about her?