Posted on 01/18/2015 8:33:58 AM PST by ADSUM
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary CUF
Issue: What does the Church teach concerning the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
Response: The teaching is aptly summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 974:
The Most Blessed Virgin Mary, when the course of her earthly life was completed, was taken up [“assumed”] body and soul into the glory of heaven, where she already shares in the glory of her Son’s Resurrection, anticipating the resurrection of all members of His Body.
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“You realize that the Catholic Church teachings are protected from error by the Holy Spirit.”
You mean like the Inquisition was protected by the Holy Spirit? The selling of Indulgences was protected by the Holy Spirit? Which Holy Spirit are you referring to?
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What about Enoch?
What about Moses who was talking with Jesus at the Transfiguration? How did he get to heaven?
Thank you for the Catholic resources.
I stated that we are a Church of and for sinners.
All are welcome.
On matters of faith we are guided and protected by the Holy Spirit. We have a guarantee by Jesus. You can look it up in the Bible.
You do realize the Holy Spirit will not contradict the Word?
The immaculate conception pretty much negates your statement as the Holy Spirit will not contradict the Word.
Or perhaps this falsehood from Urban II?
All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.
Again, another contradiction of the Word. That statement, btw, is more in line with Islam. Jihad is the word we're looking for here.
Surely you're not referring to the "unchanging" teaching of the rcc which has been shown on this board to have changed over the centuries.
Contrast that with the Word which has not changed over the centuries.
You do realize the Holy Spirit is promised to all believers in Christ? He is not limited to just a "few" in the rcc.
Any library in the theological department of any major university will have shelves of books on this. For starters go read the Catholic Catechism.
Isn’t it enough of you that leading Protestant theologians who have extensively written, taught, preached for all their lives have converted to Catholicism including Richard Neuhaus who was America’s leading Lutheran theologian, prolific writer, preacher and professor.
This is the product of theologians from over 2000 years ago and the input from Aquinas to Augustine after whom major colleges and universities have been named. The profound works of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica is placed right next to the Bible in Oxford’s (non-Catholic) world renowned Bordlean library
Your comment: “You do realize the Holy Spirit is promised to all believers in Christ? He is not limited to just a “few” in the rcc.”
Yes, but we can also lose through sin.
Jesus promised he would not leave us orphans (John 14:18) but would send the Holy Spirit to guide and protect us (John 15:26). He gave the sacraments to heal, feed, and strengthen us. The seven sacraments —baptism, the Eucharist, penance (also called reconciliation or confession), confirmation, holy orders, matrimony, and the anointing of the sick—are not just symbols. They are signs that actually convey God’s grace and love.
The sacraments were foreshadowed in the Old Testament by things that did not actually convey grace but merely symbolized it (circumcision, for example, prefigured baptism, and the Passover meal prefigured the Eucharist. When Christ came, he did not do away with symbols of God’s grace. He supernaturalized them, energizing them with grace. He made them more than symbols.
God constantly uses material things to show his love and power. After all, matter is not evil. When he created the physical universe, everything God created was “very good” (Gen. 1:31). He takes such delight in matter that he even dignified it through his own Incarnation (John 1:14).
During his earthly ministry Jesus healed, fed, and strengthened people through humble elements such as mud, water, bread, oil, and wine. He could have performed his miracles directly, but he preferred to use material things to bestow his grace.
In his first public miracle Jesus turned water into wine, at the request of his mother, Mary (John 2:1–11). He healed a blind man by rubbing mud on his eyes (John 9:1–7). He multiplied a few loaves and fish into a meal for thousands (John 6:5–13). He changed bread and wine into his own body and blood (Matt. 26:26– 28). Through the sacraments he continues to heal, feed, and strengthen us.
“I stated that we are a Church of and for sinners.”
Indeed. Yet somehow these fallen sinners have managed to be infallible for centuries whe it comes to “doctrine”, ins spite of the fact that said “doctrine” has been changed several times through the centuries.
The sun orbits the Earth, which is at the center of our Solar System; Catholic “doctrine” for a couple of centuries after Galileo.
So was the RCC wrong on that doctrine then or is it wrong now?
And where exactly in the RCC Bible is it stated that Mary was “assumed” into Heaven? Take your time. I’ll wait.
Your comment: “You still haven’t shown that what the Catholic Church teaches as tradition”
Sacred Tradition should not be confused with mere traditions of men, which are more commonly called customs or disciplines. Jesus sometimes condemned customs or disciplines, but only if they were contrary to God’s commands (Mark 7:8). He never condemned sacred Tradition, and he didn’t even condemn all human tradition.
Sacred Tradition and the Bible are not different or competing revelations. They are two ways that the Church hands on the gospel. Apostolic teachings such as the Trinity, infant baptism, the inerrancy of the Bible, purgatory, and Mary’s perpetual virginity have been most clearly taught through Tradition, although they are also implicitly present in (and not contrary to) the Bible. The Bible itself tells us to hold fast to Tradition, whether it comes to us in written or oral form (2 Thess. 2:15, 1 Cor. 11:2).
Sacred Tradition should not be confused with customs and disciplines, such as the rosary, priestly celibacy, and not eating meat on Fridays in Lent. These are good and helpful things, but they are not doctrines. Sacred Tradition preserves doctrines first taught by Jesus to the apostles and later passed down to us through the apostles’ successors, the bishops.
Your biased statment; “Because Adam and Eve brought the sin nature into all mankind. Jesus was the only sinless person to walk this earth since.
So you are the expert on the Bible. Your arrogance is amazing. May God forgive and teach for your lack of understanding.
Likewise...
The Assumption of Mary and co-redemptrix in our redemption through the Word made flesh is REJECTED by a constellation of the greatest theologians and Bereans from the times of the apostles until now.
What a high-minded insult to folks who do NOT kiss the; uh; ring of Rome.
The HATRED of the Rome created MARY?!?
Yup!
Luke 7:50...
And who, exactly, created Petrine authority ??
Mary is dead, son.
Deal with it.
Calling Rome's Mary SINLESS is HERESY!
So; you can NOT contend for the faith; ONCE given to the saints.
OK then...
I'll be watching your responses.
Shouldn't take TOO many to figger it out.
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