Please show where God sanctioned praying for the dead.
If I do, will you pray for the dead, or will you seek another path to attack the Orthodox, Jews and Christians ? Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
John, Catholic chapter nine, Protestant verses twenty six to twenty Deneb,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James