"Assumption of Mary," Wikipedia:
"The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as follows:
"'We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven'."
"In accordance with Stephen J. Shoemaker 'there is no evidence of any tradition concerning Mary's Dormition and Assumption from before the fifth century. The only exception to this is Epiphanius' unsuccessful attempt to uncover a tradition of the end of Mary's life towards the end of the fourth century.' The New Testament is silent regarding the end of her life, the early Christians produced no accounts of her death, and in the late 4th century Epiphanius of Salamis wrote he could find no authorized tradition about how her life ended."
"In the 10th century the German nun Elisabeth of Schönau was reportedly granted visions of Mary and her son which had a profound influence on the Western Church's tradition that Mary was assumed in body and soul into Heaven, and Pope Benedict XIV (1740–1758) declared it 'a probable opinion, which to deny were impious and blasphemous'."
"Catholic Mariology," Wikipedia:
"The four Marian dogmas of Mother of God, Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, and Assumption form the basis of Mariology."
"Perpetual virginity of Mary," Wikipedia:
"The Catholic Church has gone further than the Orthodox in making the Perpetual Virginity one of the four Marian dogmas, meaning that it is held to be a truth divinely revealed, the denial of which is heresy."
"David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day." Acts 2:29, NIV
"David did not ascend to heaven." Acts 2:34, NIV
"No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven." John 3:13, NKJV
"The dead know nothing." Eccelesiastes 9:5, NKJV
"They are asleep." "The sleep of death." Psalms 90:5, YLT, NIV
"There will be a resurrection of the dead." Acts 24:15, NKVJ
"Those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake." Daniel 12:2, NKJV
"The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout." 1 Thessalonians 4:16, NKJV
"All who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth." John 5:28-29, NKJV
"For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep." 1 Thessalonians 4:15, NKJV
"The dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, NKJV
"There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies." 2 Peter 2:1, NKJV
"If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing." 1 Timothy 6:3-4, NKJV
"Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech [NCV™: fancy talk and fine words] deceive the hearts of the simple." Romans 16:17-18, NKJV
"Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them. Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people." Romans 16:17-18, Moffatt
"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God." 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, NIV
J.I. Rodale, The Synonym Finder:
"heresy ... 2. apostasy, conversion; superstition, delusion; paganism, idolatry, idol worship; disbelief, unbelief, misbelief, skepticism; irreligion, impiety, agnosticism, atheism."
Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words:
"HERESY ... 'an opinion,' especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects."
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