The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Christ and thereby the mother of God. Christ is our brother and therefore the mother of God, is then the mother of our brother. As Mary is the mother of our common brother, Mary is then the mother of all Christians as the mother of the family of God. As the family of God is based upon the works of God, as known an loved through faith, hope and love, the family of God is tied to the head of the family through faith, hope and love. The head of the family is the Trinitarian God, and the Blessed Virgin Mary as the mother. The head of the family will then best provide the works of God as outstanding causes of faith, hope and love.
As faith is to believe in the existence of Heaven and the general bodily resurrection, faith then includes the works of Christ and Mary as exemplar works of the general resurrection that are compatible with the resurrection of the bodies of Christians which are taken into heaven. Based upon the ordering of faith as from the outstanding actions of God, which occurred through the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is most fitting that She have experienced the resurrection and bodily assumption into heaven as an exemplar of faith.
Similarly, in accordance with the virtues of hope and love, Mary should also have been bodily assumed into heaven. For Christian hope desires, the bodily assumption as a good promised and Christian love is attracted to the truth of being completely happy with a resurrected and glorified body in heaven. As Mary's bodily assumption into heaven is in accord with faith, hope and love, Mary was then bodily assumed into heaven after she died and was resurrected without corruption.
Conclusion - Mary's bodily assumption into heaven as an exemplar act of the work of God, is then an exemplar cause of Christian faith, hope and love. The existence of Christian faith, hope and love in the general resurrection and bodily assumption into heaven is strong evidence for the bodily assumption of Mary into heaven.
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