Wow. That is truly the flimsiest argument in favor of praying to dead people I have ever read.
And now because God said He is the God of Abraham that is supposed to be the evidence which permits us to violate the Second Commandment and bow down and serve and pray to statues of dead people???
I didn’t say anything about violating the Second Commandment, or praying or serving statues—not my fight.
I did indicate that those who you consider dead are not dead according to taking my commentator, whom you seem to think guilty of flimsy Biblical scholarship—taking Exodus 3:6 out of context.
You may want to re-consider your position, after looking at the commentary, which is embedded in the 22 chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. The commentator is thought by many to be worth following closely. I try to model my scholarship after Hia.
Not my day for typing.
Hia=His; praying to or serving statues.
I doubt God is as easily misdirected as RC apologists hope others are. RCs seem to think this disagreement is of small concern. God thought enough about this grave sin to name it as His 2nd Commandment.
No one can say RCs haven't been cautioned against the idolatry they practice with such strange pride and resolve.