Protestants focus on belief. “Believe and be saved.” sums up most of their systems. They do not focus on Mary, The Mother of God. Why?
“Catholics take Mary too seriously. Yes, she was the Mother of Jesus, but that’s it. We believe in Jesus and we believe that we are saved because we believe in Jesus.”
Most Protestants do not believe that Mary believed. Her Cousin, Elizabeth, recognized Mary as a true believer. This passage is a link that provides a connection between believing Protestants and Catholics. Protestants may recognize that Mary was not only a believer, but also, that Mary was The First Believer:
Lk 1:39-45
“Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,
‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.’”
The Bible teaches us clearly that Mary, like Protestants, “believed” in Jesus. She was, in fact, The First Believer. Even the most anti-Catholic Protestant must, if a Bible believer, believe that.
That is a step toward seeing that Mary, who contributed the human DNA that formed Christ’s human nature, had to be without flaw, showing how reasonable it is to believe that The First Believer had to be conceived without Original Sins.
