The Bible states the wages of sin our death. Why would Mary need to be assumed if she was sinless? Also, two others before here were taken and did not die. If God made note of that in the Bible, why wouldn't He have made note of her assumption?
2007-07-26 09:52:38 · 12 answers · asked by nom de paix 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ascension.
She didnt need to be. Catholics think she is many things she was not and is not.
2007-07-26 11:00:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
When the New Testament was put together, not everything that happened was put into it. The New Testament tells us this. John 20:30 and John 21: 25. These speak about the works of Jesus but the same can be said for Mary and the early Church. If Mary's body had been buried, it would have been a custom to build a Church over the site of her grave. There is no such site.
Mary's Assumption into Heaven has been a part of Catholic belief since before the 7th century and became a dogma in 1950.
2007-07-26 17:10:01 · answer #2 · answered by Mary W 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many people believe Mary was assumed before her natural death could take place, because she is the Immaculate Conception. Elijah being assumed in the O.T. is proof that God can and will assume a person to heaven without their death.
If the assumption of Mary happened after all the books of the New Testament were written, it couldn't very well have been written in there, could it? But there are written accounts of her assumption from the era it happened -- they are not canonized as Scripture, but that doesn't mean they are not true.
2007-07-26 18:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by sparki777 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She didn't need to be assumed. But it happened because it was a confirmation of her glory as the Mother of God.
She didn't need to die -- although she likely did.
Bear in mind that the Catholic Church's teachings are silent on the question of whether Mary physically died before the Assumption.
The Church only teaches that she was assumed into Heaven -- it doesn't say one way or another whether she died just prior to that.
Remember that Jesus did not have to die, either, in order to effect our Redemption. As God, He simply could have willed it, and it would have been done.
But He died in order to fully share in our humanity.
Along the same lines, Mary probably died (though that is my personal opinion; again, the Church is silent on it) before the Assumption in order to have the full experience of humanity -- except for sin, of course.
The Assumption, true, is never mentioned in the Bible. But there are other Christian concepts -- such as the Trinity -- that are not specifically mentioned in point-blank fashion in the Bible either.
And there's nothing in the Bible that says the Assumption didn't happen, or couldn't have happened. The Bible is silent on the question.
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2007-07-26 17:01:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The assumption of Mary means she's assumed to be in heaven - being that we are not the judges of the human soul we don't assume anyone is in heaven unless God has shown obvious favor. The assumption is needed as it's basically stating that she remained sinless throughout her life - she was born sinless and she died on earth sinless - her soul never died though.
2007-07-26 16:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The dogma is especially fitting when one examines the honor that was given to the ark of the covenant. It contained the manna (bread from heaven), stone tablets of the ten commandments (the word of God), and the staff of Aaron (a symbol of Israel’s high priesthood). Because of its contents, it was made of incorruptible wood, and Psalm 132:8 said, "Arise, O Lord, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might." If this vessel was given such honor, how much more should Mary be kept from corruption, since she is the new ark—who carried the real bread from heaven, the Word of God, and the high priest of the New Covenant, Jesus Christ.
All Christians believe that one day we will all be raised in a glorious form and then caught up and rendered immaculate to be with Jesus forever (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 21:27). As the first person to say "yes" to the good news of Jesus (Luke 1:38), Mary is in a sense the prototypical Christian, and received early the blessings we will all one day be given.
2007-07-26 17:03:15 · answer #6 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mary didn't *need* to be assumed. The doctrine of the Assumption is one of the Catholic Church's most compelling expressions of Jesus' humanity, because it is basically saying that Jesus could not stand to see His mother's body suffer decay, and so He brought her bodily into Heaven to prevent that, out of His profound love for her.
2007-07-26 17:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous Lutheran 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mary was not assumed or taken up into heaven without death.
If she were, it certainly was not written in Gods word.
Not sure where that thought originated from, but Mary was saved by Jesus, same as the rest of us.
I am awestruck by the fact that she got to kiss his little face as he was growing up. THat would have been so awesome to raise the little one that was to save us all.
2007-07-26 16:57:57 · answer #8 · answered by cindy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If God would assume Elijah into Heaven, wouldn't Jesus do the same for His own mother?
2007-07-27 03:09:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic doctrine of a sinless or assumed Mary is widely rejected throughout the rest of Christendom. There is no evidence or reason to believe in it.
MiamiGal ... how do you figure anyone's belief overrules anyone else's? All I'm saying is the Catholic Church believes this doctrine and the virtually all of the rest of the Christian church rejects it.
2007-07-26 16:58:14 · answer #10 · answered by sharky 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
"why wouldn't He (god) have made note of her assumption?"
Very good question.... I await the answers too.
2007-07-26 17:08:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋