They are gone from this planet. Their physical bodies are no longer functioning here.
Trying to contact the spirit or soul if you will, of dead people is prohibited by God.
When you try to contact the soul or spirit of a human being who has passed, you are messing with the spiritual realm and opening yourself up to demonic activity.
Show us in Scripture ONE example of someone praying to a person whose body has died or where we are commanded to contact those who have passed on.
Show us where we can be sure with certainty that any one of those people who the Catholic church has labeled as *Saints* are actually in heaven. Who’s been there to verify? And even if someone claims that, where’s their proof?
Why isn’t God good enough for Catholics? Why do they feel the need to go through saints.
So where do saved people go when they die?It's in the Book Rome assembled.
Have you ever heard of the DEAD in Christ?
They are going to RISE some day.
So where do saved people go when they die?It's in the Book Rome assembled.
Our brother; Lazarus; sleepeth.
Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death - they are like the new grass of the morning:
Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better."
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: "Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.