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So where exactly to you think Mary is?

Uh...

..dead in her grave just like every other of those who are collectively called the dead in Christ.

Awaiting the Last Trump; just like the bible; the book that Rome compiled; says:

Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

So how do you reconcile the 1 Thess 4:13-18 (and 1 Cor 15:51-53) passage statement that the dead in Christ God will bring with Jesus for the raising incorruptible and the alive being caught up together in the clouds? These spoken of as being brought with Jesus are absent from their bodies, and Paul clearly states that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Paul also offers blessing to spirit, soul, and body, so can we say the spirit is with the Lord, while the corruptible body is decaying with the earth? Is the soul and spirit with the Lord? (I can't think of a way to make this any more of a softball than the offering here ... knock this one over the fence, Elsie).

Luke 23:43
And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

So you believe that the entire population of heaven right now(other than God and the angels) is one thief?

Love, O2