And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.I buried my older brother many years ago. It struck me how absolute was his quietude and stillness. If he had lived again while we watched, we would have published the news everywhere and it would never have been forgotten. If one so significant as Mary the mother of Jesus had passed and then been raised in so spectacular a manner as the apocryphal stories tell, and in the presence of the apostles themselves, as I have heard the story, then why the long silence, the story not surfacing until at the earliest the third century, and even then only starting in a small trickle, and not until much later gaining in popularity?
(Luke 20:34-38)
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:If it is wrong to cal them dead, who are certain to be raised, then Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ has falsely called them dead, and the doctrine of inspiration is broken. But Paul is not wrong. That God is God of the Living is prospective, it looks forward to the resurrection. It does not pretend that death is not real now, while we wait, as all believers must, for the resurrection call.
(1 Thessalonians 4:16)
Jesus speaks directly, specifically, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by name. Are you saying they had been bodily raised?
As for Mary having died. She might have. I don't know. That has not been dogmatically defined in the Catholic Church.
#5181 was meant for you, SR.
This forum has become more than a little confusing to my brain. Thank you for your patience for an old lady!