[Arthur McGowan]

You have completely misstated what I have said in the past.

I have never argued from the absence of a record of Mary’s death to her not dying.

I argued from the total absence of relics to her assumption.

The total absence of relics is totally out-of-character for the early Christians. They kept relics of the apostles, martyrs, and many other people. The bones of 15,000 Roman martyrs are in the pillars around the altar in St. Peter’s.

The absence of a record of Mary’d death proves nothing. The absence of any relics of her body demands an explanation.

[metmom]

And WHERE did I say that I was stating YOUR position?

[CynicalBear]

>> The absence of any relics of her body demands an explanation.<<

Nobody kept track of Mary after the day of Pentecostal. She was obviously so irrelevant that not one word was written by either secular or religious writers. The can't even say definitively where she lived or where she died. That pretty much explains "no relics". She wasn't all that important to them.

[Elsie]

<>The absence of a record of Mary’d death proves nothing. The absence of any relics of her body demands an explanation.

My; quite selective here!

Tell me; what is the EARLIEST dated relic in the possession of the Church?