Almost every major difference between protestants and Catholics boils down to language.
who are in Heaven to talk to God for us just like we would ask someone here on earth. The old English (not Old English, but I digress) way of saying "ask" is "pray", as in "I pray thee, good sir...".
Can you show a scripture that clearly states that, please?
Do you know how I know you didn't read the link I posted?
I did read it. No where in there was it said in scripture that the dead can pray for the living. It's a series of misinterpreted and out of context passages that in no way substantiate what your implying. So I will ask again: please show scripturally that requests for intercession from the dead is preached or spoken of bionically. Because I can post NUMEROUS passages, in context, that will say otherwise.
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Enjoy Your Portion in This Life ... 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Ecclesiastes 9 KJV
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2 KJV
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Deuteronomy 18 KJV
Yeah, and all of those verses have nothing to do with the subject at hand.
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