Catholics: Why did Jesus ascend to Heaven yet Mary was assumed? Why the difference?

Jesus ascended under his own divine power. Mary, was assumed, by God through no power of her own.

The Assumption is not based on the Bible but is not inconsistent with what we know about God. We know that Elijah was assumed into heaven (2 Kings 2:11). We also know that Enoch was assumed into heaven.

So we know God does such things. Mary the mother of Christ, saved from original sin at her conception and being free from sin her entire life would not have been subject to corruption.

Also, there is no tomb or body of Mary anywhere. Being that the early Christians would have venerated her grave as a holy site, it is amazing that no place claims to have her body. Mary lived with St. John until her death, which most theologians believe was in Ephesus.

The early Chrisitans believed in the Assumption and it was through this consistent belief that we came to understand it as truth.

There are things we can know that are not explicit in the Bible, but are consistent with God's ways and supported by scripture.

Christ ascended into the Kingdom of Heaven both in body and spirit shortly after He had risen from the dead. As for His Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary she had been taken care of by the Apostles in Jerusalem and when it became unsafe for her to remain there St. John left Jerusalem with her and they lived in Ephesus together in which she dedicated herself to a solitude life of prayer but she made trips back to Jerusalem and during one of those trips she died in Jerusalem and was buried in Jerusalem this wouldn't be covered in Scripture when this happened of course only Catholics and Orthodox would know about this because our faith comes from the early Church. Now as it goes the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary was discovered missing from her tomb so it was believed that her body was assumed into the Kingdom of Heaven taken there by angels of the Lord. And yes this is supported by Scripture which is why the early Christians believed her body was assumed into the Kingdom of Heaven being that the body of Christ is of the flesh of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Acts 2:31

he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption.

Easy. Jesus is God and has the powers of God. He did not need to be assumed; He ascended by His own power.

Mary is a human being. She has no divine power. She was assumed so that the body who carried the Christ Child would not be subject to decay.

Just another thing that doesn't make sense about the catholic church. That is why the rest of us do not consider them Christian. Their beliefs are very strange and all this "it is a mystery" crap. God tells us that the scriptures are plain and should be easy to be understood by all. There is no mystery. They only say that because they cannot explain why they believe these things.

Jesus ascended to heaven by His own power, Mary did not. I could say, (awkwardly), that God ascended her.

We assume that Mary was a virgin, a virgin forever, never died and was white. All of which are kaka

jesus was alive, mary was not

jesus and mary are mythical, imaginary creature. grow the fuc* up!

Can you back it up with scripture?

4 Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

John wrote this around 98 c.e.

3 See what sort of love the Father has given us,+ that we should be called children of God!+ And that is what we are. That is why the world does not know us,+ because it has not come to know him.+ 2 Beloved ones, we are now children of God,+ but it has not yet been made manifest what we will be.+ We do know that when he is made manifest we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself,+ just as that one is pure.

but it has not yet been made manifest what we will be.+ We do know that when he is made manifest we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

6 We originate with God. Whoever comes to know God listens to us;+ whoever does not originate with God does not listen to us.+ By this we distinguish the inspired statement of truth from the inspired statement of error.+

11 Beloved ones, if this is how God loved us, then we are also under obligation to love one another.+ 12 No one has seen God at any time.+ If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us.+ 13 By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has given his spirit to us. 14 In addition, we ourselves have seen and are bearing witness that the Father has sent his Son as Savior of the world.+ 15 Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is God’s Son,+ God remains in union with such one and he in union with God.+ 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us.

12 No one has seen God at any time.+ If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us.+ 13 By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and

20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar.+ For the one who does not love his brother,+ whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.+ 21 And we have this commandment from him, that whoever loves God must also love his brother.