Today, we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary—the belief that Mary was taken into heavenly glory, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life.
But pause for a moment.
An assumption is a conclusion accepted as true without direct or explicit evidence stating it as a fact. It may come from tradition, interpretation, inference, or longstanding belief.
So if what we are celebrating today rests on an assumption rather than an explicit statement of Scripture, a rather uncomfortable question follows:
What other things were we taught to believe as absolute truth that may also have come through assumption, speculation, tradition, or later interpretation?
How many of our beliefs come directly from Scripture, and how many came later through tradition and interpretation?
Who decided which traditions Christians must accept as doctrine?
And if Scripture does not explicitly teach something, by what authority can the Church make it obligatory for believers?
I ask these questions as a Catholic.
Not because I hate the Church. Not because I want to destroy the faith.
But because if we truly believe in truth, we should be brave enough to examine even the things we inherited.
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