But the second thing I want to talk about as we're talking about Mariolatry is the teaching
from the Catholic Church that Mary was without sin.
The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was sinless, okay?
This is what's known as the Immaculate Conception as called by the Catholic Church.
Let me explain something to you.
Because here's the thing, people think, and I thought this as well, that the Immaculate
Conception referred to the virgin birth.
It does not refer to the virgin birth.
And I'll show you, I'm going to quote you from Catholic.com, the Immaculate Conception
refers to the Catholic teaching that Mary was born without sin, not that Jesus was virgin
born.
And see, if you had asked me, do you believe in the Immaculate Conception like a month
ago?
I'd be like, yeah, I believe in the virgin birth.
That's not what the Immaculate Conception is.
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary was born without sin.
I'll prove it to you.
And you can, and we did this yesterday.
A few of us looked on Google and it's like, wow.
It's like the Immaculate Conception is the teaching that Mary was perfect.
It's not the virgin birth.
This is what it says on Catholic.com.
It's important to understand what the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is and what it
is not.
Some people think the term refers to Christ's conception in Mary's womb without the intervention
of a human father, but that is the virgin birth.
This is on Catholic.com.
They're saying that's not the Immaculate Conception, that's the virgin birth.
Others think the Immaculate Conception means Mary was conceived by the power of the Holy
Spirit in the way Jesus was, but that too is incorrect.
So apparently some people teach that Mary was born like a virgin birth.
I don't know.
It's like, I didn't even know people taught that.
But the Immaculate Conception means that Mary, whose conception was brought about the normal
way.
Basically a husband and wife come together the normal way, was conceived without original
sin or its stain.
That's what immaculate means, without stain.
The essence of original sin consists in the deprivation of sanctifying grace and its stain
is a corrupt nature.
Mary was preserved from these defects by God's grace from the first instant of her existence.
She was in the state of sanctifying grace and was free from the corrupt nature original
sin brings.
So the Immaculate Conception taught by the Catholic Church is that Mary was without original
sin.
And what that means is Mary was perfect.