THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN SCRIPTURE

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. Ineffabilis Deus Pope Pius IX 1854 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

 Moment of conception: Two cells become one!  Body and Soul = Person  Life begins at conception BIOLOGY >>THEOLOGY

 GOD’S CURSE TO THE SERPENT (SATAN)  THE FIRST GOSPEL – PROTOEVANGELIUM  The Fall: A Man and a Woman  Redemption: A Man and a Woman GENESIS 3:15

 God’s command of obedience  Serpent deceives Eve  Eve changes from friendship to enmity with God  Adam commits sin and loses friendship with God  All 3 are cursed o Serpent – crawl on belly, eat dust, enmity with woman/seed o Eve – childbearing pain o Adam – ground cursed, toil, thorns and thistles THE FALL

GENESIS 3:15

 Total opposition and separation  Hostility  Animosity  Warfare  Hatred ENMITY God = Love Satan = Sin

FANCY TITLES Adam and Jesus  Immaculate and Sinless  Adam: peccator  (sinner)  Jesus: redemptor  (redeemer) Eve and Mary  Immaculate and Sinless  Eve: co-peccatrix  Mary: co-redemptrix co-reparatrix

REVELATION 12:1 A WOMAN CLOTHED IN THE SUN