[caww]

This is not like asking someone on earth to pray for you, since they are physically here to converse....catholics are doing is asking those who are not physically here and are unable to see or affect the affairs of mankind on earth to do ‘what is attributed to God only’.

In the Bible we find that prayer is directed to God alone. To set up a person as a recipient for our prayers, no matter how great they are is making them out to be deity. Asking a saint to help and guide or protect is something ‘only God can do’....

[D-fendr]

Translation here: Communion of Saints as in the creeds and the Church for 2,000 years? Gone. Alive in Christ who conquered death? Nah.. Surrounded by a cloud of witnesses? They're blind, deaf and dumb.

It truly is amazing what some have lost by leaving the Church.

[rzman21]

Read about the Communion of Saints that the Apostle’s Creed uses. That’s a start.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

so the saints in heaven are unaware of what is happening on earth?

hmm, is that what the Bible teaches?

Luke 15:7 says there will be “joy” in heaven over one sinner who repents.

Revelation 6:10-12 shows the martyrs very much aware of what is happening on earth.

God is the God of the living, not the dead.