2007-09-06 03:48:26 · 5 answers · asked by mia 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
who ever he is, he will answer before God for the false theology and idolatry that he encouraged as a leader with in a "church" context...
2007-09-06 03:59:42 · answer #1 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Catholics believe in the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven after her death.
John 19:26-27 states:
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple (John) took her into his home.
The minutes of the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 C.E. indicate that four or six years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, John and the Virgin Mary came together to Ephesus, and for a short time stayed in the building, a section of which is now under Church of the Virgin Mary today.
Later John moved the Virgin Mary to a house he had prepared for her on Bulbul Dagi (Bulbul Hill). She lived there until the end of her earthly life.
St. John of Damascus (P. G., I, 96) later wrote:
St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.
http://www.turktour.com/virgin_mary.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
Pope Pius XII declared as dogma what Catholics had believed for centuries.
With love in Christ.
2007-09-06 23:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
...please try to understand that the "title" (Pope) is a "pagan" title...not Scriptural in any form what-so-ever... The Roman Church has "twisted" Scripture to fit's its dogma's, traditions and "religious gymnastics" that attempt to hold it's followers in "religious bondage"... The "assumption" of Mary is just that... an assumed man made dogma... Mary, a beautiful Hebrew girl of whom God chose to be the vessel to bring Jesus into the World... lived (had "other" children with Joseph)and died a mortal woman... Scripture does NOT make any "assumption" of her at all... The Roman Church has taken Mary and attempted to make a "religious rock-star" out of her... The Scriptures do NOT give the Church of Roman any "special" knowledge... (by the way... the first "9" Popes were all Jews who celebrated the "Faith" as Jesus originally ordained it... after that "they" broke the "Faith" and began to teach "strange" things... like calling their priests "father" (a direct contradiction to Scripture... see Matthew chapter 23 vs.9) and believing that the "pope" was infallible...again a direct contradiction of Scripture... No one is the Vicar of Christ... Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life... Please, study the Scriptures, not the writings of Rome.
2007-09-06 11:03:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
* Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death), proclaimed by pope Pius XII 1950
2007-09-06 10:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption.
Here is a link to the text of the actual document:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P12MUNIF.HTM
I suggest you read this explanation of the Assumption:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Immaculate_Conception_and_Assum.asp
I'm not sure how the feast date got set.
God bless
(God bless you too, CJ )
2007-09-06 10:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋