Well, thank God for His Truth. Let the self-serving false pieties and legalisms created by men be seen for what they are - lies from Hell.
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Do you ever ask anyone to pray for you? Do you ever follow the injunction to gather two or three together to pray in the name of the Lord?
I mention this because you ridicule the notion of praying to or with dead humans, neglecting the fact that the Lord Himself, while fully divine, was Himself for a time a ‘dead human’. Those who believe in Him and have died, are still very much alive.
He is God therefor, of the living, not the dead, and Jesus states that people who are living with the Lord in heaven are very much alive. To state otherwise is to place oneself in the camp of the Sadducees.
Please read:
37 “ Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Ex. 3.6
38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.”
It goes without saying that the condemned are themselves ‘alive’, living in eternal judgment.
19”Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. 20”For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
Recall too that the Lord Himself, while on earth spoke to, what some may call a, ‘dead human’.
…3 “And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”…
As a point of order, I do mention here that Elijah has not yet died, but was taken up to return a the time of the Anti-christ. Moses still makes your ‘dead human’ team, though.