[HarleyD]

So one person conjectered 600 years after Christ about what might have happened to Mary and this becomes a whole doctrinal point of view? Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that John (the oldest living apostle) never mentions Mary was taken up like Enoch? One would have thought that would have been worth mentioning in 1 John.

[dvan]

I totally agree with you. It would have been a great deal, if it happened. And since John was to care for her he would have had experienced this.

[sparklite2]

One of the justifications is that the location of Mary’s body is unknown. So, natch, she must have been yanked up in the flesh.

[Mr Rogers]

I couldn’t be much more impressed by a discussion of transubstantiation found in 1000 AD.

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[Popman]

Wait’ you don’t believe stuff that happened six hundred years after the fact..... oh ye of little faith....lol

[Antoninus]

So one person conjectered 600 years after Christ about what might have happened to Mary and this becomes a whole doctrinal point of view?

An ironic argument coming from anyone whose church was founded on doctrines created 1,500 years after Christ.

[Alberta's Child]

So one person conjectered 600 years after Christ about what might have happened to Mary and this becomes a whole doctrinal point of view?

Actually, no.

The doctrine of the Assumption is built on the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. If Mary was conceived without original sin, then she would not have suffered the effects of sin and death that were only an element of human existence as a result of original sin. Unlike all the other saints whose souls remain separated from their physical bodies until the Last Judgment, her soul would remain joined to a glorified body much like we read about Jesus Christ in the Gospels after his Resurrection.