Angel, why not? Because there is only 1 mediator between God and
man, the man,Christ Jesus. You are giving those who have gone on
before us, attributes that only God has. You are in a dangerous
position, breaking the first commandment. You are putting your own
spin on topics, using logic that won't work.
earlier, Angel, wrote:
>That sort of puts a constraint on just what it is they can do
>doesn't it? If the angels, who are constantly praising God, as are
>we here on earth without ceasing, and are given time to constantly
>serve us as guardian Angels, ministering to our needs. If we can be
>constantly praising God, both waking and sleeping, while we have
>jobs and raise families here on earth. Why can't the saints
>intercede for us in heaven, as we who live here in this plane of
>existence find time to pray for those on this list who ask for
>prayer? While still praising God. If we can find time in this
>temporal world to pray for those who request it of us, then the
>saints, who live in a timeless eternity surely can devote time,
>which isn't even an issue for them any longer to pray for
>us. Especially so, because physical constraints such as the needs
>presented by the physical body are not issues for them. Constant
>praise to God in Heaven is understood, and is assumed by us as a
>primary postulate by all the heavenly host, both angels and saints.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:38 AM
>Subject: Re: Praying to the dead
>
>
>They can not intercede for you only Jesus can the saints are in
>Heaven where you remember the earth know more because you are to
>busy praising The Lord read Luke 16.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>>On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Angel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>When the saints either living or dead intercede for us, we aren't
>>praying to them. Just as I am not praying to you if I were to ask
>>for your prayers for me. If I were wanting your assistance that I
>>might endure a difficult time in my life. Also, as the second
>>McCabe's isn't in your cannon, I won't even expect those scriptures
>>to cancel out those which you quoted. As they would be
>>dismissed. I will not engage in an argument regarding something
>>without a possible satisfactory resolution for either of
>>us. Prayers aren't offered up to our saints. In the same sense as
>>I suspect was meant by your post. Rather the saints continue to
>>exist conjoined with us as does Jesus, and the blessed Theotocos .
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:11 PM
>>Subject: Praying to the dead
>>
>>
>>A few verses for those who think you can pray to dead ones. Like
>>saints or relatives. Isaiah 8:19-20. 19. When someone tells you to
>>consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not
>>a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of
>>the living. 20. Consult God's instruction and the testimony of
>>warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have
>>no light of dawn.
>>
>>Sent from my iPhone=
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