RomeSweetHome wrote:First of all st the bible tells us to pray for each other, it doesnt exclude the physically dead.
do you guys really want me to post things written by the early church fathers that are only in the present day ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?
I mean honestly open your eyes.
Praying for the physically dead is a total waste of time and energy or do you deny the inerrancy of the Bible?
Hebrews 9:27-28
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. NAS
The idea of purgatory is not found in the teachings of Jesus or the apostels and neither is praying to or for the dead.