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****If you are thinking of something like the bodily assumption of Mary it contradicts scripture.****

Well, see that’s where you are wrong, because the Bible certainly says that at least two people were taken up to heaven.

The point is that, even though the Bible doesn’t say who its human authors are, we can gain insights from what we know in the Bible and what others who have studied it say to come to a reasonable, if unverifiable conclusion.

I said that one must take the Bible on faith and tradition.

Though we may all assert that the Holy Spirit has moved us to accept the Bible as writings inspired by God, He hasn’t opened the heavens and declared it so for us.

Therefore, we take that it is inspired and of God, on faith.

And, since the Bible does not give a list of what it should contain, we accept through tradition which books are divinely inspired.

Well, see that's where you are wrong, because the Bible certainly says that TWO PEOPLE WERE TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN. Period. It does not say that "at least", or anything resembling that. It says what it means. That TWO PEOPLE were taken up to heaven. Here is where the RCC goes off the track, once again. NOT reading God's Word as it SAYS, but reading into it and coming up with NEW ideas. Which is adding to God's Word.

>> Well, see that’s where you are wrong, because the Bible certainly says that at least two people were taken up to heaven.<<

And both were well documented but I suppose even though the Catholic Church claims all apostles knew about the death and assumption of Mary none even mentioned it. If Mary had been important to the apostles they would have written about it. As it is not one mention is made of her after Jesus ascension. The assumption of Mary also contradicts the scripture of the first and second resurrection accounts.