What does the phrase "Immaculate Conception" refer to????

Answer 1

The Immaculate Conception (feast day - December 8th) is the dogma that Mary was conceived without original sin. She was to be the perfect host carrying our Lord Jesus Christ in her womb.

Answer 2

Jesus was conceived by an Immaculate Conception. A normal virgin girl became pregnant with Jesus. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

In Genesis, after the fall, God said that Her seed would defeat the Snakes seed. Jesus was of the womans seed and not from a human sperm. Jesus was born without sin nature passed on by the man.

Years ago a Catholic Priest added that Mary was also of an Immaculate Conception (Because she was the mother of God is the Priests reasoning.). Though that was never prophecied anywhere in the bible. So, is a false doctrine.

Answer 3

Hi, let me begin with stating a seldom mentioned fact, it is simply that God cannot abide sin, and yet so many Protestants are in denial of this fact in order to debunk the sinlessness of the Virgin Mary.
It is a curious fact that Evangelical Protestants seem to have a major problem with the Virgin Mary,it is a problem that goes far beyond theological reason and debate, and in some quarters there seems to be a major antipathy, almost hatred directed at one of the key figures in the story of redemption.
Perhaps it has to do with the misogynistic tendencies of the reformers,and so there is a great deal of ignorance among modern day Protestants as to the scripturial and other ancient support of the Marian doctrines, and certainly the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is the most attacked and the least understood.
Getting back to the detest that God has for sin how can it make sense that the Son of God( and therefore God Himself) could possibly take up His abode in the womb of a sinner? it defies any kind of logic, for it would be easier to mix oil and water than for God to do this, finally God who is omnipresent applied the future merits of His only Son to Mary at the moment of Her conception to keep Her free of original sin and any stain of it,so that His Christ would rest in His first Tabernacle of purity, and this is the meaning of the Immaculate Conception.

Answer 4

Immaculate Conception? Mary was a normal virgin Jewish girl that found favor in God's eyes as a faithful person. God used her to bring his Son into the world. Mary was a sinner the same as anyone else born in sin, she was not exempt. Jehovah, using his Holy spirit, that is, his power, transferred the life of his Son Michael the Archangel into the womb of Mary to be born as a perfect human so as to pay the ransom sacrifice needed to redeem fallen mankind. Since Jesus' Father was God and not a man, no sin was passed on since sin is passed on by the man. Mary had other children fathered by Joseph, Mary was only a virgin for the birth of Jesus.

Answer 5

Many people have answered this question without any real knowledge of the subject. That's typical on the R+S forum.

The answer to your question is known best by the Catholics:

"The Immaculate Conception" does not refer to the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary. It refers to the conception of Mary- which according to Catholic dogma, must also have been sinless so that Jesus might be born free of sin.

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I know. It sounds odd to the rest of us, too.

Answer 6

The Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic dogma that asserts that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved by God from the stain of original sin at the time of her own conception. Specifically, the dogma says she was not afflicted by the lack of sanctifying grace that afflicts humankind, but was instead filled with grace by God, and furthermore lived a life completely free from sin. It is commonly confused with the doctrine of the incarnation and virgin birth, though the two deal with separate subjects. According to the dogma, Mary was conceived by normal biological means, but her soul was acted upon by God (kept "immaculate") at the time of her conception.

Answer 7

It means that the baby was conceived with out sinning or in other words, without the parents having sex. In the Catholic faith, Jesus was believed to be conceived by Mary in an Immaculate Conception- without the help of Joseph who Mary eventually married and became care-giver to Jesus.

This is one interpretation of the Hebrew Bible (eventually) into English. Some Theologians believe that this interpretation of Virgin Mary was wrong. Rather than the translation of the word into our English word 'Virgin' meaning 'never before had sex', it should have been translated into 'young child'. This changes the whole meaning of the 'Immaculate Conception'!

Answer 8

there are two different immaculate conceptions and a lot of confusion is caused by that.

1. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was immaculately conceived because she was born without sin and remained without sin throughout her life. therefore, mary has an immaculate conception (it was a regular, human birth, but God provided that she be born without sin, unlike the rest of us).

2. Jesus had an immaculate conception because he was born from a mother who was without sin (and God, who created him).

Immaculate conception--being born without sin, through the intervention of God. immaculate--pure and clean. conception--birth.

Answer 9

Jesus was supposed to have been born without sin. For just himself that strange idea is covered by the idea of his mother, Mary, never having had sex and jesus being coceived by "the holy spirit." However, once the christians accepted the idea of "original sin" (the idea that every human born carries sin from Adam & Eve), they had to find a way to get rid of Mary's original sin, otherwise she would have passed that original sin on to jesus even if she was a virgin.
So they came up with the "immaculate conception." That means that despite the fact that Mary's parents had sex in order to have her, there was something magic and special about that particular sex act -- it was "immaculate," and didn't carry any original sin with it. Why and how? Nobody says. It just was.
Now, with Mary being free from original sin, so is jesus -- and the myth of him being born sinless can continue. :)

Answer 10

Clean without Human intervention...That's to say Mary's Conception.