When You Attack the Assumption of Mary, You Attack the Resurrection Itself

When You Attack the Assumption of Mary, You Attack the Resurrection Itself

All Christians await the resurrection of the body; the Assumption simply anticipates that promise. Some argue that the Assumption is not recorded in the Bible and would not hold to it, which I can sympathize with. However, Christians who claim that the Assumption is wrong, demonic, or even pagan are some of the strangest voices I’ve ever encountered. Declaring the Assumption as ‘pagan’ is shocking because the destiny of Mary being assumed into Heaven is the destiny promised to every Christian at the end of the age.

The New Testament is clear that:

Our bodies and souls will be transformed and glorified in Heaven:

“For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52). (In the first century, the sound of a trumpet often signified an important announcement or divine intervention, while ‘imperishable’ suggested a state of eternal, incorruptible life. Jewish expectations of bodily resurrection were reinforced by such symbolism, indicating a transformation awaiting believers.)

“He will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself” (Philippians 3:21).

We will reign with Christ forever:

“If we endure, we shall also reign with him” (2 Timothy 2:12).

“They shall reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 22:5).

If this is our future, why should it be called “pagan” that God granted this reality to His Mother first, as a sign of hope for the rest of us? The very Christian idea that the body will be raised and glorified is what the Assumption proclaims. To deny this truth in Mary is, in a strange way, to undermine the Christian hope for all.

And what about the accusation that the title “Queen of Heaven” makes Mary a pagan goddess? That logic is deeply flawed. Scripture itself uses titles like “Lord” for false gods, as seen in the high places of Baal where sons and daughters were offered to Molech (Jeremiah 32:35), yet we still call Christ Lord because He alone fulfills it in truth. Unlike ancient goddesses who ruled capriciously, the woman of Revelation 12 reigns through maternal fidelity, highlighting how biblical titles redeem rather than borrow. Likewise, the fact that pagans misused a title does not make it evil. Christ is Lord in the true sense, and Mary is Queen of Heaven in the true sense because “a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1).

The tragedy is that in trying to attack Catholic teaching, many end up wounding the very fabric of Christianity itself. Deny the Assumption, and you implicitly deny the resurrection of the body. Attack Mary’s Queenship, and you ignore the biblical witness that those who share in Christ’s victory also share in His reign.

It pains me to see Christians slander Mary, the Mother of our Lord, out of a misguided attempt to distance themselves from Catholics. In doing so, they risk not only dishonoring her, but also undermining their own faith in the promises of Christ.

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