[Gargantua]

"For the same reason any Christian asks another Christian to “pray for me.”

I never heard of a practicing Christian asking some dead Christian to pray for them. Nor asking for prayer FOR the dead, whose fate was sealed in their lifetime by whether or not they accepted Christ as their Lord, and as the crucified and risen Son of God.

John 3:16 does NOT say, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that all who believe in Him might not perish, but have life everlasting... oh, yeah, and all those whose buddies prayed to Mary after they died. They're okay, too"

And in the Bible, Jesus Christ did NOT say, "I am the way and the truth and the life, and none shall come to the Father but through me... oh, yeah, except for all those whose family prayed to Mary once they had died. They'll get to God, too."

You big silly. What a card you are!

;-/

[Judith Anne]

What is this affinity the protestants have for demanding, over and over, answers to the same questions that have been addressed multiple times on this thread?

How is it that they miss whole discussions for which the explanations they’ve demanded yet anew from yet another prottie poster who is new to the thread?

Between the protestants who are asking the same questions multiple times, and the ones going back a thousand posts every night to post one line answers that make no sense but effectively interrupt the discussion under way, you’d think that’s all the protestants have to argue with.

So, where in the bible is sola scriptura found? Hmmm? Why don’t protestants have saints? How many elect are there, and how do you know if you are one of them? What if your children aren’t elect, but you are? Is it okay with you to accept the will of the made-up deity of a sick old man — essentially a dead God — over accepting the Saving Love of Christ the Living Son of the REAL Almight God? Why don’t protestants study the WHOLE bible?

[Petronski]

I never heard of a practicing Christian asking some dead Christian to pray for them.

She's not dead.

[tiki]

>oh, yeah, and all those whose buddies prayed to Mary after they died. They’re okay, too” <

Is this supposed to be some intellectual theological answer?

It sounds more like some kind of playgroung taunt.

[Marysecretary]

Exactly. I never ask a deceased person to pray for me. What a joke.