To: Mad Dawg
I don’t give much thought to relationships with those believers who have been promoted to a place face to face with Him. If believers pray to such persons, how exactly do they discern between praying to a familiar spirit and a departed saint?
441 posted on
04/30/2007 9:44:34 AM PDT by
Cvengr
(The violence of evil is met with the violence of righteousness, justice, love and grace.)
To: Cvengr
how exactly do they discern between praying to a familiar spirit and a departed saint?
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You put the finger on one of my more serious concerns about it—though I had not consciously articulated it even to myself.
445 posted on
04/30/2007 9:51:10 AM PDT by
Quix
(GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
To: Cvengr; Mad Dawg
If believers pray to such persons, how exactly do they discern between praying to a familiar spirit and a departed saint?Two corrections: we are asking them for their prayers, not praying to them and 2) we know their names.
This "familiar spirit" nonsense sounds as if you're quoting from Harry Potter!
448 posted on
04/30/2007 10:00:18 AM PDT by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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