The Blessed Virgin Mary, the subject of the excellence of her Son as Redeemer, reconciler and mediator, therefore, never contracted original sin. |
He is the unique Creator, Redeemer, Life-giver and life-taker. |
It is the difference between pagan idolatry and true worship of our Creator and Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
Still his doctrine seems to have been a heathen Gnosticism, in which he proclaimed himself as the Standing One, the principal emanation of the Deity and the Redeemer. |
In this way we are able to understand Jesus as Redeemer, as Saviour, as the Lamb of God who takes away sin. |
One other slant on this whole thing is that some Gnostic sects believed the Serpent not to be a tempter, but to be a Redeemer. |