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To: CynicalBear

We don’t know whether or not Mary died.

She was preserved from sin by the merits of Christ. So she DID have a savior—Jesus Christ.

Mary, being sinless, very possibly did not die.

On the other hand, it seems probable that she would WANT to experience death out of a desire for SOLIDARITY with her Son, and with the rest of the human race.


282 posted on 01/30/2015 12:28:07 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
>>We don’t know whether or not Mary died.<<

So the dormition of Mary wasn't really the dormition of Mary right? And that whole story about the apostles being transported to her bedside at her death was just a fake? A fable? What was that?

I think if it weren't for double speak Catholics wouldn't have much to say.

286 posted on 01/30/2015 12:45:09 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Mary, being sinless, very possibly did not die.

Since you can provide no Scriptural basis for this statement, just you man-made tradition, this statement has no more validity that your other statements based on Church tradition. And like your other statements, it is in direct opposition to the actual Scripture, which says "all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." And also, "it is appointed unto man once to die; and after this, the judgment."

(By the way, if you want to argue about Enoch and Elijah, just who do you think will be the two witnesses that are killed in Revelation?)

289 posted on 01/30/2015 1:06:42 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Mary, being sinless, very possibly did not die.

POSSIBLY?

Do I see some DOUBT creeping it???

315 posted on 01/30/2015 2:04:49 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Do I see some DOUBT creeping it???

Mary, possibly being sinless, very possibly did not die.

May as well apostatize ALL the way!!!

316 posted on 01/30/2015 2:06:28 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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