Fundamentalists often challenge the Catholic practice of asking saints and angels to pray on our behalf. But the Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us. Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray:
"Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20–21).
And in the opening verses of Psalms 148 we pray,
"Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!" Not only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In the book of Revelation, John sees that
"the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8).
Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth. Angels do the same thing:
"[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3–4).
Jesus himself warned us not to offend small children, because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father:
"See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 18:10).
Because he is the only God-man and the Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus is the only mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means we cannot or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1–4). In particular, we should ask the intercession of those Christians in heaven, who have already had their sanctification completed, for
"[t]he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (Jas. 5:16).
As the following passages show, the early Church Fathers not only clearly recognized the biblical teaching that those in heaven can and do intercede for us, but they also applied this teaching in their own daily prayer life.
more from the Early church Fathers continued here:
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Verses relating that angels do God’s will does not relate in the least to praying to angels, or deceased Christians, or anyone but God.
Those verses do not support that doctrine.
The saved, born again believers who are still living here on earth are righteous. We are clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
God sees us as righteous as His Son in whom we have life. Our life is hidden with Christ in God.
in regards to prayers directed TO anyone, other than God Himself.
Where does the the Apostle Paul instruct people to pray to anyone other than God?
How about Peter? Did he teach anyone to do so? The answer to that question is not only "no", but we can find place where Peter's own instincts (as a man) to move in that direction, were corrected by God as it is written, while the man Peter was yet speaking(!)
God put a stop to that right quick ---nipping it in the bud so to speak.
Do you know the scripture I'm talking about?
Yet what do [Roman] Catholics do but erect shrines to the departed...
It's a natural-man sort of thing to do, was corrected away from doing --- by occasion where God's voice was heard from on High speaking audibly, with those on earth (Peter, James, and John) hearing Him.
< I do think they got the message, or else-- there would have been in the holy land, the church of/shrines to Moses, and one to Elijah. But God said --- don't do that --- erect 'booths' or tabernacle to Moses (who represented the Law) & Elijah (who represented the Prophets) but instead look to Jesus instead --- as is written that God the Father spoke, "this is my beloved Son, hear him".
[Roman] Catholic theology long ago creeped into fully avoiding (the meaning of) that passage... resulting in preaching a Gospel different than Paul preached (or that Christ preached, for that matter!) for Paul was aware of the writings of other Apostles, arguably as soon as those where disseminated among the earliest, most primitive "church". I'm sorry the Romans cannot see the passage I'm talking about, and understand it. It's one of those instances where scripture refutes a portion of [Roman] Catholicism --- which is likely why Roman Catholics are blind to it.
Don't look now -- but you lose again. Of course it's not your own fault, for you did not invent the convoluted theology which is [Roman] Catholicism. Yet that same you do here espouse --- which is why you keep losing.
No doubt what you posted is the Roman Catholic teachings. Still looking for the apostolic teachings of Mary as an intercessory.
Yes, those Fundamentalists who do not subscribe to the liberal revisionism sanctioned under Rome, in their own Bibles.
But the Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us. Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray:
That is absurd! You cannot find even ONE prayer in all of the hundreds of prayers in Scripture , so you attempt to use a parroted polemic which wrests poetic language in order to support it.. But which is no more invoking those in heaven and to pray with us than it asking the sun and moon and stormy wind to do so, as calling upon such to praise the Lord is exactly what such language also does:
"Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens." "Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created." (Psalms 148:2-5)
"Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:" (Psalms 148:7-9)
"Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven." (Psalms 148:13)
Thus the specious Catholic hermeneutic would support praying to the sun and moon, and is like that of the Mormons who invoked poetic language that ascribes human body parts to God in order to support their doctrine that God is an exalted man.
Yet as the late Walter Martin pointed out to them, this hermeneutic renders God to be a bird, since it also states, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." (Psalms 91:4)
Psalms do convey literal truths, (Ps. 69, etc.) including asking of God, "let the angel of the Lord persecute them" (Psalms 35:6) but the language here is not speaking of literally asking angels to praise God, which is nowhere seen. Moreover, even it was, then it is not asking them to intercede on their behalf, which surely would be exampled or taught if that was sanctioned.
But it never is, nor does asking others on earth to pray for us equate to that, and praying to those in Heaven ascribed to them the ability to personally hear virtual unlimited amounts of prayer, and mentally at that, which is an attribute only God is shown as having.
And to whom believers have direct access to by the sinless shed blood of Christ. (Heb. 10:19)
And the risen Lord Jesus is the only Heavenly intercessor we are exhorted to come to, seeing as He ever liveth to make intercession for the saints, and alone was tempted in all aspects as we are, yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15; 7:25) "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." (Hebrews 2:18)
More on this here .