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To: mas cerveza por favor; RnMomof7
>>Please do not respond without addressing my agrument.<<

Ah yes! St John of Damascus! Born nearly 600 years after John wrote Revelation and might I say nearly 600 years after all the Apostles had died. Wasn’t in 413 that the your so called “church” declared Mary to be “mother of God” and starting this whole “queen of heaven” myth to placate the “queen of heaven” worshipers in Ephesus?

I say all that to say this. I couldn’t care less what your St. John of Damascus thought or said. If the death and fictional bodily assumption of Mary had been as important as it is held by the RCC today they would not have neglected to write about it. That “bodily assumption” would have been paramount to the gospel as taught by the Apostles. The lack of even a mention of Mary by any Apostle after Jesus ascended into heaven says volumes. The bodily assumption of Mary is a myth that grew out of years and years of going astray from the pure gospel of Jesus as told by Him and His Apostles.

2,605 posted on 12/04/2011 4:18:11 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

INDEED.


2,622 posted on 12/04/2011 5:12:25 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: CynicalBear; RnMomof7
The bodily assumption of Mary is a myth that grew out of years and years of going astray from the pure gospel of Jesus as told by Him and His Apostles.

What evidence do you have for this statement? None. We have the universally recognized Greek Father St. John of Damascus testifying in favor of the Assumption of Mary and nobody of any stature testifying against it. Give it up. There is no contest.

2,740 posted on 12/04/2011 8:09:03 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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