[CynicalBear]

>> That belief, in one form or another, extended to Mary<<

That “assumption” is the correct term. A belief system based on assumption, speculation and the need to attract pagans.

>> And it was believed from the earliest Church history.<<

Show from any writings of the apostles that they either believed that or taught that. You do say that the apostles were the early “Catholic Church” right.

>> The Church didn't realize that the progeny of Martin Luther required that Scripture be the only source of belief.<<

Nice try buddy but I don’t follow Luther. He was after all a Catholic who retained much of the error of the RCC.

>> It foolishly thought that Church teachings (as Paul so often taught) were what the people of the Faith should believe. In their entirety.<<

Foolishly indeed! Paul didn’t teach the assumption of Mary, praying to the dead, purgatory, or any of the pagan practices or symbols of the RCC. Only cult members blindly follow “in their entirety”.

[MarkBsnr]

I posted an essay from the Orthodox who more closely defined the Dormition/Assumption before the West accepted it.