New Book Chapter 10 Attending church Pam Padgett: Trying to reconcile differences between that which was taught at the Catholic church and that which the Bible says

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Pam says:

 

While I was in college in the 1970's, my college friend, Connie Jo, and I would often talk about things of God.  

 

One day as we were talking I mentioned something about Mary, the mother of Jesus, being "assumed" into heaven.

Connie Jo asked me, "Where is that in the Bible?" 

 

I responded, "I don't know where it is in the Bible, but I'm sure it is there because we were taught about this in the Catholic church."   

 

We had been taught that Mary was taken into heaven much as Jesus was taken into heaven as told in the following scripture. 

 

Acts 1:9.  And when HE (Jesus) had spoken these things, while they beheld, HE was taken up; and a cloud received HIM out of their sight.

 

However, when I looked in the Bible for an account of Mary being "assumed" into heaven,  I couldn't find any mention of this.

 

Surely I was just overlooking it!   (I thought.)

At that time I was still attending Catholic church.

 

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When I went to my parents' home one weekend, I looked this up in their Catholic Books of Knowledge, a 3-book set of encyclopedias which told about Catholic doctrine.  

 

I was shocked to read that Mary being assumed into heaven was not in the Bible!  

 

It was explained in these books of Catholic doctrine, that the report of this event had been passed down from generation to generation  but was not in the Bible.  

 

This is the first time I saw that a doctrine taught in the Catholic church wasn't in the Bible, and it was quite puzzling to me.  

 

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As I continued reading in the Bible, and as Connie Jo and I talked, other Catholic doctrines came to light which were either not in the Bible or conflicted with what I read in the Bible.  

 

I started a list of these things.  

 

Although I no longer have that list, I recall some of the things that were jarring to me as I read the Bible during that time, for it didn't line up with that which had been taught in the Catholic church. 

 

(There was a difference between Bible and the Catholic doctrine!)

 

To read specific details of these differences, please click on the following link:  Chapter 10, Attending Church!

 

 

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