The Saints Are Not Dead

Has anyone ever asked you, "Why do you Catholics pray to saints? They are dead..." Jesus gives an important reminder for us in Mark 12:26-27 - The Saints are not dead, they are truly living. He is not the God of the dead but of the living! 🙌🏻✝️🙏🎤🎸🎶
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[@39knights]

So true. What has been revealed is God created two different creatures with immortal souls. First the Angels, and then human beings. At our earthly death our souls do not go asleep, or remain unconcious; but continue in a conscience state as a dis-embodied soul. Keep the vids coming.

[@chrisbraymusic]

Thank you. I really appreciate the encouragement ☺️🙌🏻✝️

[@ChuckyMartel]

If they're alive why dont we see them?

[@chrisbraymusic]

If Jesus is alive why don’t we see Him?

[@ChuckyMartel]

@@chrisbraymusic Yes same question
(I'm not christian btw)

[@rexlion4510]

Why do you ascribe godlike powers to the departed saints? That is the better question. Why *assume* that they can hear all of the millions of daily prayers, even the unspoken prayers? Why think that you can get better results from praying to them than from praying to God, even though God the Holy Spirit is right there living inside you?
The departed saints are created beings; they are neither omniscient nor omnipresent, so there is no good reason to _assume_ that they are paying attention to *you* when *you* pray.

[@chrisbraymusic]

Thanks for your response. Asking a member of the body of Christ to pray for you is not ascribing them god-like powers any more than asking your friend to intercede for you.
We don’t assume they are aware of earthly things, scripture makes clear that those in Heaven are know whats going on on earth.
“I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent” (Luke 15:7).
And even more specifically:
“And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four [presbyters] fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people” (Revelation 5:8).
Even now if a friend asks me to pray for them I don’t need to know the details of their prayer request in order to appeal to God ond intercede for them… Neither do the saints in Heaven.
Once again Scripture makes clear that those in a higher degree of righteousness are more efficacious in their prayers:
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” (James 5:16) Those in Heaven have been completely perfected by God’s grace, therefore their intercession is powerful and effective.

[@rexlion4510]

@@chrisbraymusic Chris, do you realize that your interpretation of Luke 14:7 involves circular reasoning? In order to reach the conclusion you desire, you must first assume the conclusion is true and then use it to bolster the conclusion. Your assumption is that (1) the departed saints are the ones who rejoice, and (2) the departed saints are capable of hearing all prayers on earth (both spoken and unspoken), and (3) Luke 15:7 is evidence that the departed saints are actually listening to all that is thought and said on earth, even though the verse mentions repentance and not prayer. But Luke 15:7 doesn't say those things you're assuming. You are reading your preconceptions into the verse. The rejoicing ones could be the angels, the cherubim, the seraphim, etc. Even if the departed saints are also rejoicing, it is far more plausible to assume that God in heaven _informs_ the saints of this news (and that is how they learn of the events on earth), than to assume that God has imbued finite created beings (who formerly had trouble hearing their spouses across the room when the TV is too loud) with quasi-deific powers to hear and comprehend all sounds and thoughts on earth simultaneously. 😆
These are the sort of unwarranted assumptions which have led the Roman Catholic Church off-track with post-Apostolic accretions to the faith. Jesus never instructed the disciples to pray to saints or to pray, "Hail Mary." He taught that the correct way to pray was to "Our Father" in heaven; why don't RCs obey Jesus' teaching on prayer? The Apostles never taught that we should pray to Mary or to departed saints, and if it were important for us to do so, don't you think they would have mentioned it in the Epistles?
During the passage of many centuries the RCC has added un-Biblical, heretical concepts to "the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3). The Apostles would never have approved, for example, of claims that we who die in the faith of Jesus Christ *will become Gods and Christs.* I'm pretty sure they would have called these Roman Catholic ideas "heresy." Don't you agree?