Had computer problems last night and wasn’t able to do my usual batch of posts for today.
Therefore need to take the rest of the blog day off.
Sorry, folks! Back up to usual blogging speed soon!
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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Jimmy, I just listened to the 9/1 Q&A. Your answer on explaining the assumption may have been stronger if you’d included this:
‘St. John Damascene, a Church Father, relates an interesting historical fact in this regard:
St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.’
Source:
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/marian8.html
You had suggested that the person explain the doctrine as being raptured early.
The quotation that you cite has no source.
I cannot use quotations that have no source or ones that cannot be verified from a reliable source.
The demands of live radio also mean that I can’t do a core memory dump of everything I know on a particular questions on the air. I have to be selective and present the information that seems most useful given the time constraints I’m under.
Since the person in question was talking to Protestants, I went for a way of using a common Protestant concept to help them understand the doctrine better.
All true. I always admire the consummate skill with which you answer the questions, I was just wonderin’.
Here’s an article with historical references: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
Hey, those are cool links David C. Before I became Catholic the cases of Enoch and Elijah (but especially the former) were really helpful in helping me understand (and believe) the doctrine of the Assumption. I didn’t think of the rapture, but that makes sense too.