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At least in Catholicism, Mary was actually born without sin (she was divinely shielded somehow, iirc) so that she could then birth Jesus. While most people think Jesus was the “immaculate conception”, it was Mary. Jesus was just the “virgin birth”.
Edit: I like to think it went like this:
God: okay, I need to have sex with a human to make my sinless demigod son.
Angel: um… god? You made it so all humans are born with sin, remember?
God: idk figure it out.
Didn't she ask god to forgive her sins or acknowledge that she sinned? That might be a protestant thing though, catholics go way harder for Mary than protestants
Yeah, Catholicism is bizarre in the way they lift religious figureheads into practically deity status (saints), changing them from regular people into beings that you pray to.
Sounds like Protestants are a little more down to earth with their religious figureheads. Catholics would rather things be Devine than mundane I think.