Well, perhaps you could help by showing where I would be wrong in saying that the RCC is in contradiction to scripture. For instance, you could once and for all show us where in scripture the teaching of the assumption of Mary is taught. That would certainly be a start wouldn’t it?
Gee, CB, you've never had any takers on that challenge. I wonder why.......
CynicalBear, please show me the text in the Bible that contradicts that Catholic teaching.
I believe you do not mean that it "contradicts" the Bible, but only that you cannot find a text in the Bible that explicitly confirms that event.
You don't believe that EVERYTHING that ever happened in Biblical times was put into the Bible somewhwere, do you?
For example, do you believe that Jesus Christ had a 16th birthday? Do you believe Jesus and His Mother Mary ate some kind of food on that day of his 16th birthday? Can you prove that from the Bible? (Show me the actual text of that.)
The Bible NEVER claims to contain "everything about everything" that happened in the Holyland during Biblical times. (If you disagree, show me the text where it DOES claim that.) To believe that is in itself an extra-Biblical belief -- you are believing something that is NOT contained in the Bible. In fact, if you believe that Mary simply died and was buried and remains there in her tomb or grave like most other people, show me the specific text in the Bible where it explicitly tells you that. If you can't (and you certainly can't), then you too are believing something that is not explicitly stated ANYWHERE in the Bible. You are NOT a "Bible-only" believer.
Do you believe Peter died, and Paul died, and John died?
If so, please show me the texts in the Bible where those three deaths are recorded.
If there are no such texts in the Bible discussing when, where, and how they actually died, but you still believe that they died, that is NOT a contradiction of the Bible -- it just means that many true things that really happened are NOT recorded in the Bible, and it is very likely those three men DID die, though the Bible is totally silent about all that.
A contradiction to the Assumption would be a Bible text that explicitly stated that the Assumption did NOT happen. If you can find no such Bible text, than there is absolutely NO contradiction in the Bible to that teaching, anymore than saying that the statement "CynicalBear is trying to live as a Christian according to CynicalBear's best understanding" is a contradiction to the Bible because that information about "CynicalBear" is not explicitly contained anywhere in the Bible. That is not logical, and does not represent a true contradiction whatsoever, just something that is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, like so many other things that, nevertheless, really, truly happened.
Do you believe that the "Ark of the Covenant" which God instructed Moses to have built to God's specifications, was important, and that God promised Moses that He would communicate with Moses from the Cherubim Gold statues on the top of the "Ark of the Covenant", as claimed in these texts?
Exodus 25:10-22Do you also believe that the "Ark of the Covenant" was important enough to appear in God's temple in heaven, as seen in a vision and related here in the Bible?10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about.
12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
14 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them.
15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
17 Then you shall make a mercy seat[a] of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.
20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
21 And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
Revelation 11:19Do you believe God commanded all humans to honor their mother, and that everyone should obey that commandment?19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Do you believe God can and does do miracles at times?
Do you believe that Jesus Christ was born from only one womb -- Mary's?
Do you believe that God's special presence (Jesus Christ) inside of Mary was just as important as God's special presence talking to Moses from those gold cherub statues on the top of the "Ark of the Covenant"?
Please consider all these things prayerfully.