RomeSweetHome wrote:newseed Wrote:
Throw out the tradition and prove your point with scripture only. Putting too much emphasis on Mary and the saints tends to put Christ on the back burner.
Thats exactly what I am asking Aieno to do. If you would care to help him, be my guest.
Good luck in finding any scripture from the NT that states saints cannot interced for the living
Peace
Again we have been through this again and again. The burden of proof rests on the Catholic Church to prove your assertions. You cannot show that God approves of praying to the dead. We can show that God prohibits necromancy but Catholics put such a limited definition on necromancy you use that to avoid God truth.
nec·ro·man·cy (nek?r?-man´se) noun
1. The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future.
2. Black magic; sorcery.
3. Magic qualities.
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By extension necromancy is any communication with the dead.
I just love the way gay activists and the Catholic Church use the same tactics. You can establish almost any heresy by appealing to what the Bible and/or Jesus does not say.
You are playing games and the truth is not in you or your doctrines.