[Conservative til I die]

I agree. I can find absolutely no scriptural basis for praying to deceased persons. I find no example of anyone in the bible asking the deceased to pray for them.

Either

A)Protestants don't go to Heaven or Hell after they die, and just rot in the ground.

or

B) Protestants don't believe in asking the living to pray for them either. Because if they disagree with A, then what is the difference between asking someone in the afterLIFE to pray for them, and asking someone on Earth?

[Jaded]

mark for later. Should that be St. Mark for later?

BTW, I have used your statement to protestants over the Mary issue, they still don't get it. It's still intercessory prayer.

[ScottM1968]

Protestants can go to heaven after they die, as anyone who is a true Christian will do.

Protestants do believe in asking fellow living people to help pray for them.

They just don't ask the dead to do so nor expect the dead to be able to intercede on the living's behalf. Such "dead intercession" is not in Scripture and is wrong.

[Sir_Ed]

You forgot another choice:

C ) The dead are either in Heaven or "asleep in Christ," either way, God has set up an impenetrable barrier between the dead and the living and to try to breach that barrier is occultic, necromancy, and absolutely forbidden..

Ed