[HarleyD]

Yes, but it is still better to be joined in prayer with another, in Jesus' name. Rare and strange would be the Catholic who asks Mary to pray for him, but does not pray himself.

Wouldn't it be better to be joined with someone who is alive. Don't you believe that God already know your request?

Yes, it was restored, along with Revelations, 1-2 John, and 1-2-3 Peter. But it is a historical fact that Luther insisted that they were not authentic scripture, and had them removed.

Whose history? They were never removed. When the first Bibles were printed (which the Roman Church Council of Trent forbid people to read) all those books were there.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Whose history? They were never removed. When the first Bibles were printed (which the Roman Church Council of Trent forbid people to read) all those books were there."

The first bibles printed were Catholic bibles, so "of course" all those books were there. The only bibles the Council of Trent forbade the reading of were those which were either inaccurately translated or had Protestant-inserted errors and/or omissions.

The RC church has ALWAYS allowed the reading of scripture.

[Tax-chick]

Wouldn't it be better to be joined with someone who is alive.

"He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living." (You know, "living," like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.)

Don't you believe that God already knows your request?

If that were relevant to the issue, one would never make any petitions in prayer ... which would be the opposite of what Christ and the apostles commanded.

[redhead]

"Wouldn't it be better to be joined with someone who is alive.

Last time I checked my Bible, it said, in so many words, that there were NO DEAD SOULS in Heaven. "Eternal LIFE," remember?