Dr. Brian Kopp wrote:
“... there is simply no reason God cannot share these requests with the living saints in Heaven.”
This is certainly true. Whether He does or not is the question at hand. Here Scripture is pretty silent.
He also wrote:
“This concept is neither difficult nor in any way in violation of scripture.”
Again, agreed that is not difficult to grasp how it could be so ... could. And one might be able to say that it is not in direct violation of scripture. However, that it is not “in any way in violation” is a much broader and more tenuous statement.
It seems to me it is also always in the nature of man to venture into the unknown if for no other reason than native curiosity. When it comes to science and discovery, this usually has a beneficial result (even if not immediately for the first explorers and discovers, who often pay a rather steep price for their curiosity). However, when man ventures into the unknown that lies beyond the powers of our senses and the deductions we have built on them, i.e., the empirical world, one enters the realm of the truly unknown in which God alone knows. Some of this unknown realm He has revealed to us and some of it He hasn’t. Here shipwreck can have a rather more lasting effect on the explorer than in the realm of the empirical.
Indeed. That's why Christ built a Church, even though He never wrote a book. He needed a Church here on earth to pass on the revealed Truths to His children, so He built a Church, gave it authority that is would never be overcome, and sent it His Holy Spirit to guide it to all Truth.
Sola scriptura is an anti-scriptural heresy; Scriture and Tradition together, in the context of a Church Christ built and to which He gave authority in Heaven and on earth, to lose and to bind, against which the gates of hell would never prevail, that is eminently scriptural.
And I'll take the Word of that Church over these sola scriptura heretics any day.
And that Church teaches the communion of the saints, as taught by Christ and handed down by the Apostles and His Church. I have complete confidence in this Truth, and no reason to doubt it. The attacks of these sola scriptura pundits just make my confidence that much stronger, because satan knows the right address; attacking the body of Christ, including the communion of saints, is an attack on Christ Himself.