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relies on arguments from silence

In your fantasy world. all the arguments I gave were from scripture and are known to you to be in scripture:

Mandate to pray one for another and to pray together;
Life eternal given those who are justified;
Superior quality of that life, comparable to the abilities of angels;
Superior quality of a prayer of a just man;

Your verbosity masks inability to understand the Holy Scripture.

In your fantasy world. all the arguments I gave were from scripture and are known to you to be in scripture: Mandate to pray one for another and to pray together; Life eternal given those who are justified; Superior quality of that life, comparable to the abilities of angels; Superior quality of a prayer of a just man;

None of which translates into believers addressing prayers to departed saints in Heaven who can process virtually unlimited prayers and respond to them. Nor does it explain the utter absence of even one example or exhortation to address anyone else in prayer to Heaven.

All your verbosity comes far, far, short of establishing PTDS, despite the abundance of material on prayer, and testifies to the blind commitment of RC zealots who abuse Scripture to serve their ends against, even though actual warrant from Scripture is not necessary, the lack of which has been exposed once again.

Thus your best argument is to stay silent as you have shown yourself to be just a shameless sophists for Rome. But perhaps generating a high number of posts on this thread will help you recommend your book. Don't expect me to help you further.

Your verbosity masks inability to understand the Holy Scripture.

Under the Roman mindmeld that is, for when Rome presumes the place of Scripture as the supreme authority, anything is possible under the pretext of superior understanding, which can decree doctrine as infallible, even if the arguments behind it are not.

>> In your fantasy world. all the arguments I gave were from scripture and are known to you to be in scripture: <<

ROFLOL!!! Not one of them showed praying with others included those who had departed this world. The belief that we should pray to or through those who have left this life is straight from paganism not from God’s scripture.<<

>>Your verbosity masks inability to understand the Holy Scripture.<<

To those of us who are Holy Spirit filled believers see a very clear understanding of scripture in his posts.

What I always see in these discussions it just the dry trading of words, but no passion for Christ as it manifests itself in the life of a Spirit-filled believer.

I want to shout from the roof top that anyone can have this relationship with the Lord. But everyone is just content to sit and argue the merits of their religion.

I feel a fish out of water here because nothing is more important to me than that people know Christ as He was meant to be known.