Mary Admits She Needs a Savior After All

Here is the Magnificat of Mary taken from the Good News Translation of the Bible from Luke 1:47-55:

“My heart praises the Lord; 47 my soul is glad because of God my Savior, 48 for he has remembered me, his lowly servant! From now on all people will call me happy, 49 because of the great things the Mighty God has done for me. His name is holy; 50 from one generation to another he shows mercy to those who honor him. 51 He has stretched out his mighty arm and scattered the proud with all their plans. 52 He has brought down mighty kings from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly. 53 He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away with empty hands. 54 He has kept the promise he made to our ancestors, and has come to the help of his servant Israel. 55 He has remembered to show mercy to Abraham and to all his descendants forever!”

I'm amazed at how Catholics tend to use Luke 1:47 to say that Mary is immaculate. It's an obvious misread because the verse says that Mary is glad because of God her Savior, Who has remembered her His lowly servant! Mary in all her humanity expressed that she is very much glad because of God her Savior and that she is but His lowly servant. Yet, Catholics tend to point out that verse to say that it's proof Mary is immaculate. It's even easier to read from the Catholic translations yet Catholics just don't get it? Besides, they even don't understand Luke 1:42 in its context when Elizabeth calls Mary, "The Lord's mother". Galatians 1:19 would later have James who's also referred to as the Lord's brother. So, are we now saying Mary is the mother of God and not just Jesus in His humanity? Did Mary give birth to the Trinity? Mary was the mother of God the Son only in His humanity. Jesus is called the Son of David yet David calls Him as Lord (Psalm 110:1). 

If Mary was actually spared from original sin then why would she consider God as her Savior and as His lowly servant? I'm amazed at how Catholic websites try to spin it around. Then we read in Luke 2:22-24 the following:

22 The time came for Joseph and Mary to perform the ceremony of purification, as the Law of Moses commanded. So they took the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, 23 as it is written in the law of the Lord: “Every first-born male is to be dedicated to the Lord.” 24 They also went to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons, as required by the law of the Lord.

Mary offered a sin offering yet Catholic websites again say it's not sufficient to prove she's not sinless.  She herself was a godly woman and I have no objections to that. She is a mother to model but not the mother of humanity. If Mary was that important for salvation then why doesn't Paul write about calling upon her? Why did Mary suddenly leave after Acts 2 to do whatever God would have bid her do? Why did Mary not have a problem with Jesus calling her "woman" instead of "mother" throughout His earthly ministry? It's because Mary knows that before Abraham, Jesus was there. Mary knew that Jesus Himself is the eternal Son of God and the Creator of the Universe. Calling her the mother of God would suggest she's above God. 

Catholic Answers also writes the following of Mary's sin offering:

For the same reason Jesus was baptized by John, though he had no sins to repent. Mary fulfilled the Law. 

According to Leviticus 12:2-8, a mother was purified forty days after the birth of a son, and she was required to offer a lamb as a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove as a sin offering. A poor woman could substitute another pigeon or turtledove for the lamb, thus offering two of them. 

The purification had to do with ritual uncleanliness and didn’t imply a moral fault in childbirth. As Jesus would later, Mary fulfilled all the precepts of the Law, which, clearly, wasn’t written to make allowances for a sinless man (the Messiah) or his sinless mother.

It's correct to say that Mary had no moral fault in childbirth. However, sin offerings were made by sinners. Mary wouldn't even need to offer it if she were sinless. Yes, it's ritual uncleanness, I agree that Jesus (being God) has no sins to repent of, but the issue lies with teaching Mary was supposedly born without sin. Yet, she admits that she's a lowly servant and that she needs God as her Savior. Mary admits she's a sinner in need of a Savior and she's but lowly. She would later offer the sin offering out of obedience and continual admission of her status as a lowly servant which means she's but a sinner saved by grace. She also provided a good example for mothers in keeping faithful to the law of God with what she did. 

I'm just amazed at how Catholics have elevated Mary too high than the Bible elevates Mary. The Bible elevates Mary like every other child of God in the Bible. We read of Mary's godliness and why she's a mother to model. We read why the prophets are good role models because they risked their necks to lovingly tell the truth. We read why the apostles, like the prophets, too are good role models. Mary is no different than any other hero or heroine in the Bible. True, Mary deserves honor but devotion to her in the spiritual sense and teaching she never sinned is not at all in harmony with the Word of God.