Exactly. That's why the heavenly resurrected being is the one that matters. If you're gonna have that, you don't have to worry about the one that will decompose.
That is why "letting Mary's physical body decay" would have dishonored her
Nonsense. She is in Christ. Thus she is honored just as any saint because of Him, regardless of the fact that she decomposed.
The heavenly resurrected body is your present body, only glorified. They are not two numerically distinct bodies, but one and the same body, simply clothed with immortality.
Nonsense. She is in Christ. Thus she is honored just as any saint because of Him, regardless of the fact that she decomposed.
No. Paul says, "it is sown in dishonor". For example, to be mutilated after death dishonors the person. Likewise, decay is a dishonor as well, as Paul says. And the Father did not allow His holy one (i.e. Christ) to see decay, says the Psalmist. Why not? Because it was an additional dishonor.
Christ preserved His mother from this dishonor. That is why there has never been a tomb of Mary (or a shrine reputed to stand over the tomb of Mary), in all of Christian history. Not only that, but the authority of the Church states as dogma that Mary was assumed (body and soul) into heaven. Thus to deny Mary's bodily assumption is to rebel against that authority by which all the Church's doctrines were established, including the New Testament canon and the Ecumenical Creeds.
-A8