Posted on 11/15/2014 1:56:37 PM PST by NYer
We don’t celebrate it.
Now it’s your turn. Where is Pope, Assumption of Mary, confession booth and perpetual virginity, relics, veneration of angels, veneration of dead saints, the celibacy of the priesthood, etc in the Bible?
That is true for me, too. I had never heard of it before reading about it here.
I do not know where you live but I have never heard of this until reading about it here.
Where in the Bible is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary?
BULL!
THis is EXACTLY what Rome teaches!
So MANY red herrings; so LITTLE time.
Didn’t you guys COMPILE the Bible?
Some CATHOLIC today whining about the CURRENT pope!
...just think, you found LUTHER who was a real badass for standing up to the imperial power of ROME!
So that undoubtedly in your mind discredits the entire PROTESTant Movement ....good luck with that....
Run out to left field to try to catch THIS high fly!
After you quit beating your wife; of course.
Here; let me help out a bit more...
Revelation 22:5
There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
Has GOD?
Isaiah 5:20
Not true.
Everything a person needs to know in order to be saved is to be found in the Bible.
Provided that the meaning of what is contained there is not distorted or suppressed on account of ideology.
Nowhere. But did I say this is a problem?
Answer this question:
Since we know that Christians, from the earliest times, treasured and venerated relics (We have Jesus’ shroud, much of the true cross, the bones of many of the apostles, etc.) why do we have not a particle of a bone from the body of Mary? Not only that, there is not a trace of anybody’s ever even CLAIMING to have had a tiniest relic from the body of Mary.
My own explanation for the complete absence of even a CLAIMED relic of Mary is that even all the would-be fraudsters knew that no such claim would be believed, because belief in the bodily assumption of Mary into heaven was always universal among Christians.
Do you have an alternative credible explanation for the complete absence of any claim of a relic from the body of Mary?
But the passage says that the dead will NEVER AGAIN be anything but dead.
You are able to reconcile that passage with belief in the resurrection of the dead?
I agree.
Darned ol' invisible font!!
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
Arguing from LACK of evidence??
You leaped at a cheap shot. But you don’t seem to have studied logic.
No. My argument is NOT “from an absence of evidence.” My argument is that the absence of certain phenomena IS EVIDENCE.
If Reponse X absolutely MUST follow Stimulus Y, then the absence of Response X proves the absence of Stimulus Y.
It’s a perfectly valid form of argument.
The dog that did not bark. The absence of DNA. The alarm that didn’t go off. The door that wasn’t forced. Such things are evidence in investigations all the time.
We know that the early Christians treasured, venerated, and preserved relics. Mary was the most venerated person in the early Church—more than any of the apostles. Yet, no relics and not even any CLAIM of a relic.
The absence of relics from history proves the absence of a body. No tomb. No relics. Nothing.
The absence of any CLAIM (even a fraudulent claim) proves the absence of any motive for a claim. And the only way there could be no motive for a claim is that all potential fraudsters were aware that all Christians believed in the Assumption, and thus no one would believe in any claimed relic.
There was no corpse, and there was universal belief, from the earliest days, in the bodily assumption of Mary into heaven.
That explains the facts.
Once again, do you have an alternate explanation? This time, try to come up with a response that isn’t logically invalid.
This is your MISSING evidence.
Your chosen religion has created this 'fact' retroactively.
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