[ebb tide]

It's so close, right next door to it, property lines (and identities) become blurred regardless of claims to the contrary.

If you were sick or dying, would you forbid your loved ones of offering prayers to God for your recovery?

[BlueDragon]

That's a non-sequiter type of reasoning I've seen used thousands of times. It still does not fly.

Need I explain in detail why?

That's been done on these pages too, although admittedly less times than the off-base non-sequiter type of questioning has been posted in what appears to me to be something of knee-jerk reflexive response...

A short answer could be --- ah, forget it.

It should wait until you get off your high horse long enough to honestly address and answer multiple questions that have been posed to yourself, even only today.

Go answer those, and then maybe I'll venture further basis for the explanation of why that question does not go anywhere near enough to where it would need to in order to justify the doctrinal developmental change (and deformation) of what was more originally prayers-- directed not toward "departed saints", but were about and regarding those same (made unto God) in memorial and thanksgiving for them having once been a part of God's redemptive work upon earth.

Until then - I owe you no further response. So get to work. I'll entertain no more queries until you do.

[Elsie]

If you were sick or dying, would you forbid your loved ones of offering prayers to God for your recovery?

Well; if Gramma prayed for me; yes.

You see; her body temperature has been around 50-40 degrees for the last 65 years or so.