Do any Protestants believe in the Assumption?

[adamhovey1988]

I am not an expert on this, but I would imagine that some early Lutherans at least did. Maybe some Anglicans and Methodists.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

Luke 1:15

for he will be great before the Lord,
and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink,
and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
even from his mother’s womb

 

[MagdalenaRita]

You could be right.

I learned about the tradition when reading about the approved apparition of Our Lady of America.

St. Joseph also appears and says soon after his conception he was cleansed of the stain of original sin.

Apparently, traditionally it was believed also by some of the Church Fathers.

 

[mcq72]

The priest who sermonized at one of the Masses I attended yesterday about how Mary didn’t die also claimed she didn’t feel any pain of childbirth

So then she is not like the woman travailing in Revelations?

 

[mcq72]

Then in the evening I went to another Mass 11 miles away and heard a priest preach that Mary actually did die.

I think an early father wrote about Mary saying, " of her end no man knows".( Ambrose or Jerome?)

 

[tgGodsway]

Why, then, deny the constant oral tradition of the Church from the earliest times?

Because arguing from the standpoint of silence is a freshman mistake down at the local Seminary- hermeneutics class. It makes for a weak and unconvincing argument. But if you could give me the names of those 1st Century apostolic voices who supported it, I may want to pay more attention. When I say apostolic, I mean those who were eye-witness to the resurrection.
Blessings to you.

 

[mcq72]

There is no contradiction in terms between a human will governed by God and a thinking human.

And I suppose add a human will governed by the prince of this world, and we be slaves to one side or the other?

 

[mcq72]

That she was spared from Original Sin meant that humanity, as represented by her, have an opportunity to reconcile with God of its own accord. Eve choose sin, Mary chose Christ.

“Of it’s own accord” is strange to me, I mean to put humanity of it’s own accord reconciling with God…though indeed we are reconciled…only one human needed perfection, to serve as propitiation, not two.

I would also say it is a slight to the Protoevangelium to leave Eve hanging in history and in your little quip of “choosing sin” only, leaving out her sin being covered in blood and by the promise of salvation in childbearing…she being reconciled by faith in the Promise…the first of a long line of seed to that end.

Not to mention an affront, in my opinion, of all the faith and graces in covenants of reconciliation leading up to the Reconciliator

 

[AlmaRedemptorisMater]

‘Of it’s own accord’ is probably a poor way of stating it, maybe ‘of humanity’s own choosing’ would be better. All I mean is that perhaps The Blessed Virgin had an active role in the promise of salvation.

 

[mcq72]

Of it’s own accord’ is probably a poor way of stating it, maybe ‘of humanity’s own choosing’ would be better. All I mean is that perhaps The Blessed Virgin had an active role in the promise of salvation.

Ok…she most certainly did…
.as to choosing, yes of some sorts, as predestined in grace and foreknowledge.