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To: Psalm_2
Well, it seems to line up with what I know about the Body of Christ. What I know is, nothing can separate us, spiritually, from other Christians. Not even death.

Requests for prayers for well-being, healing, comfort,etc. Why wouldn't Christians in Heaven have the ability to hear these requests and bring them before the throne (to which they have drawn so close?)

In any case, even if I didn't believe Christians living in Heaven could hear us, I wouldn't deny the possibility. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard what the Lord has prepared for us there.
80 posted on 09/07/2008 12:46:27 PM PDT by Lilllabettt
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To: Lilllabettt

you say:”Why wouldn’t Christians in Heaven have the ability”

again why would they ?? asking the question isn’t evidence that they do.

“Eye has not seen...”

the exact verse is:

1 Cor 2:9
but just as it is written, “THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.”
nas

which means you don’t know. even to those there it may still be yet unrevealed, being reserved for the resurrection, or possibly even the new heavens & earth. thus why advocate something which is in so many words a fantasy ???

something so important; to whom to pray was discussed by Christ who taught us to pray like this:

Our Father...

no one else is addressed. nowhere in Scripture is it advocated to pray to anyone other than to GOD. when devotion, worship to anyone or anything else is mentioned it is considered idolatry & or spiritual adultery.

“I am a jealous GOD”

1 Then God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “ I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 “ You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

5 “ You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.


95 posted on 09/07/2008 1:24:57 PM PDT by Psalm_2 (Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD Until He comes..Hos10:12)
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