To: 1000 silverlings
Well, how do we know that Moses and Elijah are in heaven? Or for that matter Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
. . . the Church, after careful examination with a skeptical eye, declares that the life, virtues, and miracles of a particular person were such that he or she is probably in heaven and may be honored as a saint. It's not an absolute pronouncement - only God can do that.
371 posted on
06/06/2007 10:16:03 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
Moses was God's messiah to the Jewish nation, but I know of no Jews praying to him, wherever he is. Elijah was taken directly to heaven on the chariot, I know of no Jews or Christians who pray to him. Same with the rest of them. Isaac and Jacob, Abraham and their wives were put bodily in the cave at Malpechah, no one prays to them that I'm aware of.
It's only when we come to man made religions where we find men and women doing whatever they feel like doing,doing what seems good to themselves, making it up, without using God's revealed Truth.
380 posted on
06/06/2007 10:21:35 AM PDT by
1000 silverlings
("The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson, President of U.S.)
To: AnAmericanMother
Do you pray to them?
We KNOW they are there because Scripture tells us
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