Then perhaps you could explain how it is that the office precedes Christianity in the Roman Empire, following inexorably from the mystery religions of the near east where the office originated...
Mary was assumed bodily into heaven. There’s nothing in Scripture that says this can’t be done and indeed, what’s so toxic or harmful about believing that about Mary?
There are MANY things about which one can say 'There’s nothing in Scripture that says this can’t be done'. Every false religion surrounding YHWH's Word eventually and necessarily goes there. What is toxic about it is the pervasive and exponential destruction of the image YHWH created from way back in the old testament - The Son... ONLY the Son. Not his mother, not a panoply of 'glorified' saints. The SON alone.
Why was it that YHWH was so angered by the Israelite tendency to change what HE said was proper form and worship? Because changing any single thing alters the shadow pictures which He had so painstakingly defined - Those things which define Him to us across all the generations. Dare Christians do the same without fear of the very same reprisal?
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