And everyone knows that those were the Old Testament saints who were released at Christ’s death and later taken to heaven. To try to associate them with New Testament Saints is ludicrous.
So, there are untold people who have been bodily resurrected into heaven?
Further proof that the Assumption of Mary DOES NOT contradict Scripture.
"And everyone knows that ... "
“Everyone knows” that just another pure, unadulterated, self-worshiping, reinterpretation, has been flung against the wall by one of those who accept "Scripture Alone" and reinterpret Scripture to suit themselves any time it’s convienent for them to do so in hopes that some of what they throw at the wall will stick . The Lego Block Method of Scripture Interpretation never fails to lead dispensationalists to interpretations of Scripture that have contained within them either subtle or direct denials of the deity of Jesus Christ and/or a refusal to render to Him the glory and honor due Him. We’re supposed to believe Jesus Christ, God Almighty, was and is subject to the arbitrary time lines dispensationalists rely on to support "The Rapture of The Snowflakes Fantasy”.
So, when Christ died and the veil was torn is “the” end of the Old Covenant in the eyes of some of them dispensationalists fantasy experts, when Christ arose is “the” end of the Old Covenant for other dispensationalist fantasy folks, and still others meld their fantasies with what was universally accepted until Magret McDonald ruled otherwise and say when the Temple was destroyed was “the” end of the Old Covenent. To avoid confusion, the Lindsey/Lehaye sindicato “prayfully” rolled the good old twelve sided die of prophecy. Now, we are authoritatively informed, and as dictated by the Snowflake Sindicato, it is when the veil was torn that the Old Covenant ended. With just when “the end” really means “the end”, finally settled, mankind was at last privy to every detail of Margies prophecy. Now that expert Snowflakes clearly understand Margie, they have revealed that when the veil in the Temple was torn., Jesus Christ, God incarnate, lost and to this day has not recovered, the power to raise anyone from the dead. Whatever it takes to avoid upsetting the Rapture fertilizer cart is just fine with those who worship their own, Most High and Holy Self, and who believe in the dispensationalist Rapture hokum.
Delving still further into the “clear meaning of Scripture” we check the "Big Popup Book of Escape & Evasion for Dispensationalist Soldiers of the Cross”, which indeed confirms that “the end” of the Old Covenant was when the veil was torn and will oficially be “the end” of the Old Covenant for the rest of the month of January since this year ends with an even number. Now we are ready to see exactly why it is that Mary could not possibly have been raised from the dead. Those who were were seen in Jersusalem risen from the dead prior to Christ having arisen, are Old Testament, Old Covenant, First Resurrection Stage One, folks who rose prior to Christ, who is the “first fruits”. So, they were raised from the dead, but shortly thereafter Jesus Christ, God from God, was denied the right to raise anyone from the dead. Thusly and in spite of what those pesky Apostles of Christ may have taught, "The Rapture of The Snowflakes Fantasy” demands that Christ be unable to raise anyone from the dead so Mary did not and could not have been raised from the dead. Is that all clear ?
For the Snowflake crowd, everything is based on what the "Scripture Alone" dispensationalist crew want to see in Scripture, not what is in Scripture. Forget all the lip service dispensationalists give to what the Bible says about His return being possible at any moment, we’re now informed that it can’t happen no matter what the Scriptues may say. Only after Jesus Christ obeys Margret McDonald, and the LeHaye/Lindsey sindicato sign off that Jesus Christ has adequately done their bidding, only then will dispensationalists remove their chains that bind Jesus Christ and permit Jesus Christ to once again be capable of raising someone from the dead.
The reason this may be news to some folks is because only after Lego Block Method of Scripture Interpretation and the "The Rapture of The Snowflakes Fantasy” were combined less than two centuries ago, so dispensationalists contend, could anyone understand what Scriptue really says instead of what everyone thought it said for over eighteen hundred years. Since each and every one of them say they are infallible interpreters of His Word, it must be so, right?. This dispensationalist hooey all comes from among those same folks who say it was impossible for the Holy Ghost to guide and protect the Church Christ Himself established and entrusted to His Apostles. However, they say, the Holy Spirit could and did guide a young girl more interested in spiritualist levitation yarns than in Christianity, to a vision that defies Scripture, but a vision the dispensationalists accept. Clearly (as in “clear meaniong of the Scripture”), when Christ promised the Holy Spirit would reveal all Truth, He really meant that the Holy Spirit would get around to revealing all Truth no later than the eighteen seventies or thereabouts.
Obviously, those who worship their own, Most High and Holy Self rather than Christ have no problem at all denying the deity of Jesus Christ, God from God, incarnate in human flesh. If such folks decide Christ is incapable of doing something, well, then Christ is incapable of doing something. They then just dig some pearls out of their wallow, sting them together, and say, “see, proof text”.
Another thing, “everyone knows” who isn’t blind themselves, is just how blind those who have accepted “Scripture Alone” and spiritualist dispensationalist hokum become. Such folks are first led into minor errors, then subtle refusals to give Christ the honor and glory He is due, and then into both direct and indirect denials of the deity of Christ. Whether it’s the claim that dispensationalist time lines dictate the degree to which Jesus Christ, God from God, is permitted to be God, or it’s calling Jesus Christ a liar by denying what Christ Himself said about His flesh and His blood being present in the Eucharist, it always comes down to the “Scripture Alone” dispensationalist crowd denying the deity of Christ or a refusing to render unto Christ the glory and honor He is due. Sharing Scripture with such folks is exactly like throwing pearls before swine. It is no wonder we Christians are told :
Titus 3:9 but avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 3:10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.
Those who continue to deny the deity of Christ can fool themselves however they like, but they should get used to the idea of hearing, "I never knew you" from the very Jesus Christ they deny is God.