Is a rapture and an assumption the same?There are some people in both the Old & New Testaments that have been raptured,or "assumed," but Mary,the mother of Jesus Christ,isn't named as one of them.So,where did the Catholic church get that idea from,and who in the Catholic church started it? Did she die,or, get raptured? What's the story?
2007-08-15 16:36:58 · 10 answers · asked by auntfran8 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible doesn't say anything about Mary or anyone else being raptured or assumed up to Heaven apart from Jesus Christ.
Jesus Himself said: "No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man" (John 3:13) Here are Jesus' own words that no man, except Himself, had ascended into heaven.
Many people think Enoch and Elijah were taken to Heaven but that's not what Jesus or the Bible says.
Moses didn't write that Enoch did not die. Moses wrote that "Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him" (Gen. 5:24). Paul records the same event by saying that he was not found, because God had translated him" (Heb. 11:5).
in Acts 7:16. Here we read that after Jacob DIED his body was TRANSLATED - to Sychem WHERE HE WAS BURIED. That is why Moses said that God TOOK Enoch. God removed - translated - him so that he was not found. God took Enoch and buried him.
In Deuteronomy 34:6 we read also how God took Moses from the people after which he died and was buried by God. "But no man knoweth his sepulcher unto this day." God removed Moses - God translated him - and he was not found either.
What about Elijah? Well the Bible just says he was taken up to Heaven but does not say which Heaven because in Hebrew Heaven can mean the sky above, outer space or the place beyond time and space where God has his throne.
Give that 10 years AFTER being taken up Elijah sends a letter to the King of Israel it seems logical that Elijah was taken up into the sky and set down somewhere else far away, but still on planet Earth!
Therefore Jesus was telling the truth when he said no man had ascended to Heaven (the heaven where God and the Angels live).
Most of the RC ideas about Mary come from dubious Gospels that were written in the 3rd and 4th centuries long after the actual events and the rest comes from Church Tradition, but it only takes an early church father to have expressed a personal belief in something for it to become "church tradition" when centuries later the RC church was trying to justify a teaching that is not in the Bible.
The only Biblical rapture is when the living and dead in Christ are taken up into the air to meet him when he returns for the battle of Armaggedon.
2007-08-15 17:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by jeffd_57 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
She was assumed into Heaven, which means that God lifted her into Heaven. Pretty much the same concept as being Raptured, only Jesus didn't come halfway down to meet her.
The Church has had this belief since the 6th century at least. It wasn't 'started' by anyone specific, unless you count the Holy Spirit. It was universally believed way before it was made a dogma.
2007-08-15 16:43:04 · answer #2 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The rapture is not excepted by the Catholic church, it appears in the King James version of the bible.
The rapture according to what I've been told is at the end of the world God will take the righteous body and soul into heaven, the rest will be left on earth, with demons and no food, water..etc.
Mary was assumed into heaven body and soul, she did die but when straight to her son.
Hope this answers your question.
2007-08-15 16:47:56 · answer #3 · answered by djc1175 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
My answer would be yes. If the definition of rapture is to be caught up body and soul into heaven... then yes, that s what happened to Mary. If you were God and could do that for your mother, would you?
2016-01-09 06:27:08 · answer #4 · answered by JAMES 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raptured is just a word to describe being 'caught up' to be with the Lord.
Assumption is the ascension into heaven of the Virgin Mary; also a picture of this scene.
So? I have never heard this before. Thanks for the question. Jesus is the one who ascended to the heaven after His resurrection. Jesus is the only person who has raised from the dead whole; everlasting body, soul & spirit.
As Christians, when we die, our bodies turn to dust & our soul/spirit go to heaven to be with the Lord. Paul had said that to be absent from this body, is to be present with the Lord. (One example of an out of body experience... http://www90minutesinheaven.com .) So the rapture is when the 'dead in Christ' first & then us alive (with oil full in our lamps) are 'caught up' resurrected like Jesus; whole; everlasting body, soul & spirit; to be with the Lord. Mary is still waiting to be 'raptured' with the rest of us who are born of His Spirit, cleansed by His blood. Mary is one of the 'dead in Christ'. Now, her flesh was buried & turned to dirt, but her soul/spirit is in heaven with the Lord right now.
2007-08-15 17:02:15 · answer #5 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Mary, earthly mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, gave birth to Jesus' half-siblings, therefore she did not qualify for assumption into heaven! She had to confess her sins and accept Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior, in order for her spirit to go to heaven when she died! Just like most people who die, her body was undoubtedly buried.
There were very few people mentioned in the Bible who were actually, or supposedly, assumed into heaven; Mary was not one of them. Just like purgatory, indulgences, infallibility of the Pope, celibacy for the Priesthood, Mary's Assumption was just a late construct of the Roman Catholics. From what I've seen and experienced, Catholics just use this celebration as another excuse to drink and go carousing, since they are obligated to go to Confession anyway!
2007-08-15 19:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Mary died just like any other person would and she slept in death until the resurrection of the firstfruits of God after Jesus was enthroned in heaven. She is one of the 144,000 anointed of God.
2007-08-15 16:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
it's not. rapture doctrine is false and unbiblical.
2007-08-15 16:42:00 · answer #8 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Catholicism is load of pagan BS
2007-08-15 16:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by sahara_springs 3 · 3⤊ 7⤋
Where did they get ANY of their garbage teaching? Unholy men, of course.
2007-08-15 16:43:34 · answer #10 · answered by witnessnbr1 4 · 2⤊ 6⤋