To: kosta50
By the same token, Blessed Mary was born mortal -- yet the Church in the West holds that she never died. If she didn't die, she is divine. Yet, we know that she called her Son her Savior.
This isn't what the Church teaches. Mary died, rose from the dead by the Mercy of Christ, and was reunited with her body and taken into Heaven. Elijah was taken while alive, and some hold St. John was taken as well.
Not dying is not the same as being divine.
241 posted on
09/22/2004 10:34:14 AM PDT by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: Dominick; kosta50
The Pope's ex catherda teaching on the Assumption doesn't address whether she died or not. However, if you ask most orthodox Catholic theologians, they will tell you that she died.
243 posted on
09/22/2004 10:37:37 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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