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(1) Jesus' Mother . Mary, Not"Immaculate" or Freed from InheritedSin . Only JesusHimself WasPs. 50:7, Dy [51 :5, AS] "Forbehold I was conceived in iniquities: and in sins did mymother conceive me ."Rom. 5 :12, Dy "Wherefore asby one man sin entered into thisworld and by sin death ; and sodeath passed upon all men, inwhom all have sinned."Rom . 3 :9, 10, Dy "What then?Do we excel them? No, not so .Worship of MaryDEFINITIONThe unscriptural practice based upon the false teachings (1) thatChrist Jesus' earthly mother, Mary, was born of `immaculate conception',that is to say, that, by the special grace of God, she was freedat the moment of conception from inheriting the "original sin" ofAdam ; (2) that she is the "mother of God" ; (3) that she is "evervirgin", never having borne any other children ; (4) that she is the"woman" mentioned at Genesis 3 :15 and will bruise the serpent'shead ; (5) that she is the "spiritual mother" of the "church" ; (6) thatprayers addressed to her as an intercessor or mediatrix are heardand answered by God ; (7) that she was "taken up body and soulinto heaven" in an "assumption" ; (8) and that honor and venerationare due her. A practice opposed to the Scriptures and that turnsattention and worship away from Jehovah God and Christ Jesus .ORIGINThe worship of Mary as an application of the false doctrine of theCommunion of Saints is not contained even in the earlier formsof the Apostles' Creed of apostate Christianity and was totallyunknown to true Christians. Although Tertullian (A.D. 155-222)was claimed to be among the first to imply the view that "martyrs"could obtain graces and blessings for others (Cath . Encycl ., Vol . XV,p. 459), "devotion to The Blessed Virgin" was not extensively taughtuntil probably well after the sixth century and did not reach fulldevelopment until the later Middle Ages. The pronouncement ofthe assumption of Mary as an infallible dogma of the Roman CatholicChurch was not made until 1950 . Such worship, especially of "motherand child", finds its real origin in pagan Babylon with Semiramis("queen of heaven") and Nimrod her son .398For we have charged both Jewsand Greeks, that they are all undersin . As it is written : Thereis not any man just ."Ps . 13 :1, Dy [14 :1, AS] "Theyare corrupt, and are becomeabominable in their ways : thereis none that doth good, no, notone ."Heb. 7 :26, Dy "For it was fittingthat we should have such ahigh priest, holy, innocent, undefiled,separated from sinners,and made higher than the heavens."