[LostTribe]

>Abraham found favor with God. Do you pray to him?

Now there's a great new idea! {ggg}. In California that would be sufficient to begin a whole new religious enterprise. A competitor down the street would pray to Moses, and a third group would pray to Jacob.

After all, they are known to have had a FIRST HAND relationship with God. They didn't have to phone long-distance, or go through an operator.

[A. Pole]

>Abraham found favor with God. Do you pray to him?

Now there's a great new idea! {ggg}. In California that would be sufficient to begin a whole new religious enterprise. A competitor down the street would pray to Moses, and a third group would pray to Jacob.

After all, they are known to have had a FIRST HAND relationship with God. They didn't have to phone long-distance, or go through an operator.

Of course you can pray/ask for intercession from Old Testament saints. God Himself tells friends of Job to ask Job for prayers as He would not listen to Job's friends. Sometimes it is more prudent to ask someone more worthy than us for for the mediation.

And another Biblical evidence that Old Testament saints are alive is when Moses and Elias talked with Christ in the presence of Apostles (Luke 9, 31-33)

[William Terrell]

Let's not circulate radical new ideas. If people started praying to the patriarchs, our Jewish brothers would pass a concrete turd the size of Rhode Island. Have compassion for their sphincters, if not their traditions.

Excuse the crudity, but the topic merits it.