The Catholic Church is not above making itself ridiculous by trying to explain its strange dogmas. Mary and her physical ascension must be defended with all possible arguments.
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In fact, hardly any similarities
Protestants and Catholics have, and this is in the nature of things, very different views on the gospel. Nevertheless, there are similarities and one of them is the belief that one cannot contradict the Holy Scripture. However, this claim by the Catholic magazine “catholic.com” raises questions because the Church of Rome claims that the Bible is not the only source of faith and that the Church is even above it.
Catholic Church only marginally biblical
There are also a number of Roman Catholic traditions that directly contradict what the Bible says. These include claims about an immortal soul, the deification of man and his own “good morals” (Info).
The Catholic magazine points out that Protestants do not share the same view that Mary was taken to heaven. This contradicts John 3:13:
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.“
You bend it to size
For the Catholic magazine, however, this statement has nothing to do with Mary. Because the question was “how do we ascend to heaven.” There are three different options. The easy entry into heaven. Enter heaven on your own. The blessed vision through Jesus. None of these possibilities exclude the physical acceptance of Maria, the magazine said. Furthermore, Jesus said this long before Mary was taken into heaven. If one were to assume that “ascending” means entering heaven, Mary’s physical assumption would not contradict John 3:13.
In addition, Jesus ascended to heaven under his own power, while Mary was taken to heaven completely passively by God, according to the Catholic magazine. This is simply claimed out of hand, because there is nothing of this kind to be found in the Bible.
The Church of Rome is even free enough to define the woman in Genesis 3:15 as Mary. God spoke of Mary completely out of thin air and of course without considering the context when He placed the enmity between “her” and the serpent. In fact, it is a representation of the descendants of the first humans, i.e. Adam and Eve.
Tiring discussions
This whole discussion about whether Mary was truly taken into heaven or not is tiresome and completely unnecessary. It never happened and there is no biblical evidence for it. These are exclusively the imaginings of certain masterminds of this church folklore and costume association, whose main task was to mock Jesus Christ as much as possible and to lead people to certain ruin (Info).
In order to make its own religion, which is based on the pantheism of the pagans (Info), look as Christian as possible, this church is not above slipping into ridicule through extremely embarrassing attempts at explanations and distortions. The power of habit, for over many centuries all contradiction was summarily eliminated through persecution, torture and murder. The “man of sin”, as he (still) is alive and well (Info).
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Bible verses from King James Version (1611)
