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To: FormerLib
But I see you do believe yourself to have rid the beam from your own eye. Ok then as well.

And you don't see the one in yours.

It does not matter if it is the Vatican, Easter Orthodox, or whatever that declares certain dead people "saints" and tells people to pray to them for "intercession."

Again, that is not in Scripture, and is in fact contrary to God's Word.

"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
1 Timothy 2:5

Know this: Praying to the dead is strictly forbidden in the Bible. Deuteronomy 18:11 tells us that anyone who “consults with the dead” is “detestable to the Lord.”

You know enough information to make your choice on this matter. Choose, if you haven't already. But remember, choose wisely. Our God is a God of mercy, but He is also a God of Wrath.

96 posted on 12/15/2013 6:16:10 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
Again, that is not in Scripture, and is in fact contrary to God's Word.

Asking others to pray for you is certainly in Scripture. On the basis of Christ's intercession for believers, who is present at the Right hand of God (Romans 8:34 ;Hebrews 7:25), it is argued that other people who have died but are alive in Christ may be able to intercede on behalf of the petitioner(John 11:25; Romans 8:38–39. So much for the "not in Scripture" falsehood.

97 posted on 12/15/2013 7:28:05 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: SkyPilot
Additional references:

If there shall be an angel speaking for him . . . He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption" (Job xxxiii, 23).

When thou didst pray with tears… I [Archangel Raphael] offered thy prayer to the Lord. (Tobit xii, 12)

And another angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel. (Apoc., viii, 3, 4)

98 posted on 12/15/2013 7:34:17 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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