“Instead we ask her to pray for us.
Haven’t you ever asked anyone to pray for you?”
OK, I appreciate that may be the official position of the Catholic church. And that may be how it is for you. But there are many, many instances where that is not so. Read on this thread for a few examples of direct idolatry.
But also, do you not see how that is praying anyway? You are praying to her to ask that she prays for you? What is your example/reference/support for doing that? Yes I have asked people to pray for me, but not dead people!!!!
(But primarily, I would still rather focus on what we have in common, and believe that we either hang together or shall assuredly hang seperately)
“What is your example/reference/support for doing that? Yes I have asked people to pray for me, but not dead people!!!!”
It’s in all 4 Gospels.
Luke 20:37-8
“They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
“What is your example/reference/support for doing that? Yes I have asked people to pray for me, but not dead people!!!!”
It’s in all 4 Gospels.
Luke 20:37-8
“They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”