What a bunch of Catholic rationalization.
Once their bodies have stopped functioning on this earth, they are out of our reach and we are forbidden to try to contact them. God never specified as to their location, either heaven or hell. Necromancy, contacting or communicating with people who have died, whose bodies stopped functioning here on this planet is forbidden.
When you go to a funeral and look at a body that is embalmed and laying in a coffin, is it not dead?
Do you think either God or the writers of Scripture did not know what the word *dead* meant?
BTW, ALL dead people are alive somewhere in the spiritual realm.
Are you sure you’re not praying to someone in hell or purgatory?
I’ll tell you, I have yet to meet someone who can rationalize disobeying clear commands of God like some Catholics.
If you don’t trust God’s promises to hear and answer our prayers enough to take them to HIM as Jesus commanded, then I guess your only option is try some other means, but it’s certainly not Scriptural.
That's funny. I thought I was praying to souls, not physical bodies. Maybe you don't believe in those.