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Foundations

  1. 1 Sola Scriptura vs. Scripture & Tradition
  2. 2 Sola Fide vs. Faith & Works (Justification)
  3. 3 Mary & the Saints
  4. 4 The Eucharist (Real Presence & the Mass)
  5. 5 Papal Authority & Apostolic Succession
  6. 6 Purgatory & Indulgences
  7. 7 Church of Christ-Specific Issues
  8. 8 Calvinist-Specific Issues (TULIP vs. Grace & Free Will)
  9. 14 The Canon of Scripture (Why Catholic Bibles Have 73 Books)
  10. 22 What “Justified” Means (and Paul vs. James)

Sacraments

  1. 9 Confession & Reconciliation
  2. 15 Baptism (and Why Catholics Baptize Infants)
  3. 19 Holy Orders & Priestly Celibacy
  4. 20 Confirmation (Is It an Extra Ceremony?)

Pastoral

  1. 10 Salvation Outside the Church

Practice

  1. 11 Images & Repetition (Statues & the Rosary)

Marian Dogmas

  1. 12 Immaculate Conception & Assumption
  2. 18 Mary’s Perpetual Virginity (and “the Brothers of Jesus”)

Capstone

  1. 13 The Nicene Creed, Line by Line

Church History

  1. 16 The “Great Apostasy” Claim (Did the Church Fall Away?)
  2. 17 The Abuse Scandal (Can This Be Christ’s Church?)
  3. 21 The Church Fathers (Who They Were and How to Cite Them)

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Reference · Teaching 12

Marian Dogmas — Cheat Sheet

The two dogmas

DogmaDefinedClaim
Immaculate Conception1854Mary conceived without original sin, by grace applied in view of Christ's future merits.
Assumption1950Mary taken body and soul into heavenly glory at the end of her earthly life.

Key support points

PointDetail
Luke 1:28 "kecharitomene"Perfect passive participle — a completed, ongoing state of grace, used almost as a title.
"New Eve" typology2nd century (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus) — preserved from sin to freely cooperate in redemption.
Romans 3:23 reply"All" statements carry contextual exceptions elsewhere; a unique grace applied in view of Christ's merits, not a denial she needed Christ.
Enoch & ElijahGenesis 5:24, 2 Kings 2:11 — bodily assumption without death has OT precedent.
No tomb/relic traditionUnlike other early saints, no city ever claimed Mary's bodily remains.

The one honest caveat

Say this plainly: neither dogma has an explicit proof-text narrating the event itself. The argument rests on typology, grammar, precedent, and very early (though non-canonical) tradition — it's the weakest teaching in terms of direct textual support, and worth acknowledging as such rather than overstating the case.