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If you are going to be "dead" in the next life, so be it. Not me. I plan on being Alive in Christ Jesus, in Heaven. The "dead" are in Hell in the next life. That is scriptural. Your idea that those in Heaven are "dead" is nonsense.

Summary of Biblical Evidences

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A. Prayers for the Dead
Tobit 12:12; 2 Macc 12:39-45; 1 Cor 15:29; 2 Tim 1:16-18.
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B. Dead Saints Are Aware of Earthly Affairs
Mt 22:30 w/ Lk 15:7,10 & 1 Cor 4:9; Heb 12:1.
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C. Dead Saints Intercede For Those On Earth
Jer 15:1; 2 Macc 15:14; Rev 6:9-10.
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D. Intercessory Mediation of Saints and Angels
Tobit 12:12-15; Rev 5:8 and 8:3-4.
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E. Dead Saints Appear On Earth to Interact With Men
1 Sam 28:12-15 with Ecclesiasticus 46:20; 2 Macc 15:13-16; Mt 17:1-3 and 27:50-53; Rev 11:3.
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F. Guardian Angels
Ps 34:7; 91:11; Mt 18:10; Acts 12:15; Heb 1:14.
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G. Angels Are Aware of Our Thoughts
Lk 15:10; 1 Cor 4:9.
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H. Angels Participate In the Giving of God's Grace
Rev 1:4.
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The great Anglican writer and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, in one of his last books, wrote:

". . . devotions to saints . . . There is clearly a theological defense for it; if you can ask for the prayers of the living, why should you not ask for the prayers of the dead? I am not thinking of adopting the practice myself; and who am I to judge the practices of others?"
{Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly On Prayer, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964, pp.15-16}