Who says that Mary is dead in the ground. Do you not know of the assumptions of Enoch, Elijah and the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven.
Enoch and Elijah accounts are in the Bible. The Bible isn’t about the Blessed Virgin Mary — it’s about Christ. That’s why the Assumption of Mary is not in the Bible.
BTW — What were Mary’s last words recorded in the Bible? Hint — at the Wedding of Cana.
So your statement about ALL bodies being dead and in the ground is false, even if you are a sola scriptura fanatic.
Thats why the Assumption of Mary is not in the Bible.
So where do you get this from??
Well our country and others do require “a certificate of death”....so people who do die are dead.
If Mary had the importance the catholic church attaches to her then Christ would have left us instructions on doing this. He did not.
Furthermore....He certainly gave us instructions on who we are to pray to....and we are not to practice what the pagans did by praying to the dead.