The manner in which belief in Mary’s assumption developed in the early church also raises challenges against the idea that the Holy Spirit gradually taught it after the fact. We can justifiably wonder why the Holy Spirit would teach about a specific historical event so many centuries after its alleged occurrence, and only after it was circulated first in heterodox contexts, and alongside so many competing alternative beliefs that arose simultaneously. It seems difficult to locate any reason to conclude that the source of such a process is really the Holy Spirit.
