The Assumption of Mary into Heaven
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven
By David Cox
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- cat02 Should we worship the Virgin Mary? No.
- cat01 Is the Pope the Vicar of Christ?
- cat05 Why we don’t use images in worship
Introduction
This Catholic doctrine is of very recent devise, but it basically reads that Mary never really died like most other people, but ascended directly into heaven at some point similar to Enoch and Elikah, without having died.
“When the course of our Lady’s life on earth was ended she was taken up body and soul into heaven” (Mary—Doctrine for Everyman, p. 34).
As in our other studies on Mary, the Scriptures are totally silent on Mary, Jesus’ mother, after her assembly with her other children in the upper room waiting for the day of Pentecost (Acts 1:14).
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