[sweetiepiezer]

Sounds like he could use our prayers.

[lupie]

too late, but not for his surviving family

[ifinnegan]

“Sounds like he could use our prayers.”

Could have.

He’s dead now.

He had plenty of chances and I’m sure plenty of people praying for him.

[SkyPilot]

Sounds like he could use our prayers.

The Bible says you should not pray to or for the dead.

Praying for the dead is not a biblical concept. Our prayers have no bearing on someone once he or she has died. The reality is that, at the point of death, one’s eternal destiny is confirmed. Either he is saved through faith in Christ and is in heaven where he is experiencing rest and joy in God’s presence, or he is in torment in hell. The story of the rich man and Lazarus the beggar provides us with a vivid illustration of this truth. Jesus plainly used this story to teach that after death the unrighteous are eternally separated from God, that they remember their rejection of the gospel, that they are in torment, and that their condition cannot be remedied (Luke 16:19-31).