I would agree with Luther if he removed it. ;)
I see the smiley, but if we say "sola scriptura" and then we use some notion of a belief to say what Scriptura is, it's no longer sola scriptura. (This is admittedly sort of pro forma.)
I would think God encourages the communion of the saints — the coming together of Christians for worship and fellowship. But, that may be a different description of saints than to which you refer.
Yes. We'd include all the saints, not just the ones who have not yet fallen asleep.
“Elijah and Moses appeared and conversed with Christ. He didn’t pray to them.That may be a distinction without a difference. Are you saying we can communicate with the saints but we can’t ask them to pray for us?”
No... I’m not saying that we can communicate with “the saints.” We pray to God. We don’t pray to saints. Why pray to the saints to pray for us when we can pray directly to God himself???
As for Sola Scriptura, that issue will be argued from now until Kingdom come.
Hoss