[CynicalBear]

Have we descended into semantics now? Why do you all dance around, deflect, or obfuscate when asked for scriptural proof (or support if that is easier) for the bodily assumption of Mary. Could it be because there isn’t any?

[smvoice]

Precisely because there isn't any. I think they infer from the fact that she is never mentioned again after Acts that she must have just "poof" disappeared bodily into heaven. Wouldn't you conclude the same thing? One minute her name is mentioned then it isn't. She must be standing at the right hand of Christ in heaven. Yeah, that's it. And because Scriptures did not say that she WASN'T born sinless, then "poof" that must mean she was.

The RCC: putting the "antics" in semantics.

[Jvette]

I have not danced around anything.

Why do you act as if I have and not answered you on this?

You reject what I proffered in support of it.

That is not the same as having danced around or deflected or obfuscated.