[madison10]

Praying for the dead is a waste of time. It is the living that need our prayers.

[cuban leaf]

Once someone is dead, they are out of our “prayer” hands. It’s up to God at that point.

Unless you’re mormon, but that is a very different god.

[stuartcr]

Seems that God would alerady know where they’re going.

[knarf]

Jesus said "Let the dead bury the dead"

If in this article "reasonable" conclusions are drawn, so too reasonable conclusions can be drawn ... the dead are dead and need no Savior ... just buried.

We have Moses and the prophets ... let us bgelieve the Scriptures.

[Responsibility2nd]

All Souls' Day: Praying for the dead is a Christian CATHOLIC duty

Fixed it.

[Obadiah]

Praying for the dead suggests that once they pass this life that we, or they, can alter their just reward. That then suggests that salvation, and Christ’s work on the cross, was unnecessary because once we die if enough people pray passionately for them then their outcome can change. I do not hold this to be the case.

[Uri’el-2012]

Hbr 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men
to die once and after this comes judgment,

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[aMorePerfectUnion]

A waste, unless you believe in retroactive prayers, which would affect previous history and choices.
The NT does not ever encourage believers to do this for someone who has physically died. To say
otherwise is an argument from silence.

“It is appointed unto men once to die, then comes judgement”

[circlecity]

"At the very least, reasonable people could conclude that at the time Paul wrote this, Onesiphorus had died and left behind a family (i.e. "house"), and that Paul was praying in the highlighted words that Onesiphorus would be granted God's mercy on the Day of Judgement."

There is absolutely nothing in the passage which would lead on to conclude that Oesiphorus was dead at the time of Paul's writing. Not a thing.

[sayuncledave]

Thank you for posting this. My oldest daughter and I went to pray for the poor souls in Purgatory last night, we’ll be back again tonight.

[Rashputin]

Thanks, good article. I seems, though, that quite a few people think Christ lied and that we don't have eternal life, just periodic spurts of being alive.

You know, alive, dead/sleeping, dead & walking around Jerusalem once Christ was crucified, dead/asleep until Thursday, dead/but awake, dead/but undead, dead/but alive for public appearances, dead/but alive for the Judgment, dead and loving it, dead and in hell, sort of a yo-yo eternal life, not anything like Christ spoke of.

[allmendream]

In my opinion prayers that ask God to change the world are like spitting into the wind.

The wisest prayers are those that ask God to change your own heart, to make yourself more loving and accepting of God’s will.

To quote Jim Morrison “you CAN NOT petition the Lord through prayer!!!!!”.

[guitarplayer1953]

"It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed from sins."

If one is saved then one is released from sin at death and if one is not saved all the prayer in the world will do them no good. For it is appointed once to live and die and then the judgment.

[narses]

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[exit82]

Southernfriedcatholicism is in need of a new recipe. This dog won’t hunt.

what I really want to know is: how many angels DO fit on the head of a pin?