Praying to dead saints
1 Timothy 2:5
Hebrews 8:6
Heb. 9:15
Heb 12:24
“When you pray, do not
be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on
the street corners to be seen by men
John 14:6
Revelation 5:8
Revelation 5:8
Romans 8:27
Matthew 6:7
Revelation 19:10
John 16:23
Philippians 4:6
Psalm 82:1-8
Psalm 82:1-8
Rev 22:8
Psalm 115
There two somewhat different things involved with this subject, 1)
Praying to the saints who are no longer physically alive. 2) Asking the saints
to intercede with God for us. These can often overlap in the minds and prayers
of people.
The practice of praying through saints can be found in Christian writings from the 3rd century
onward.
The idea of praying to saints that have died was not known in
the early church but started as shown above.
Here is an excerpt from Calvin’s work A Treatise on Relics
that summarizes his thesis:
Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of
our noblest feelings, — gratitude, love, and admiration, — but which, like all
other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily
degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous
consequences. It was by such an exaggeration of these noble feelings that
[Roman] Paganism filled the Olympus with gods and demigods, — elevating to this
rank men who have often deserved the gratitude of their fellow-creatures, by
some signal services rendered to the community, or their admiration, by having
performed some deeds which required a more than usual degree of mental and
physical powers.
The same cause obtained for the Christian martyrs the gratitude and
admiration of their fellow-Christians, and finally converted them into a kind
of demigods. This was more particularly the case when the church began to be
corrupted by her compromise with Paganism [during the fourth and
fifth-centuries], which having been baptized without being converted, rapidly
introduced into the Christian church, not only many of its rites and
ceremonies, but even its polytheism, with this difference, that the
divinities of Greece and Rome were replaced by Christian saints, many of whom
received the offices of their Pagan predecessors.
The church in the beginning tolerated these abuses, as a temporary
evil, but was afterwards unable to remove them; and they became so strong,
particularly during the prevailing ignorance of the middle ages, that the
church ended up legalizing, through her decrees, that at which she did nothing
but wink at first.
https://blog.tms.edu/when-did-praying-to-saints-start
The Bible nowhere instructs believers in Christ
to pray to anyone other than God. The Bible nowhere encourages, or even
mentions, believers asking individuals in heaven for their prayers. … Why do
they petition the dead to request their prayers? Catholics view Mary and the
saints as “intercessors” before God. They believe that a saint, who is
glorified in heaven, has more “direct access” to God than we sinners do from
our earthly vantage point. In Catholic thinking, if a saint delivers a prayer
to God, it is more effective than our praying to God directly. This concept is
blatantly unbiblical. Hebrews
4:16 tells us that we, believers here on
earth, have direct access to God and can “approach the throne of grace with
confidence.”
There is absolutely no scriptural basis to pray
to anyone other than God alone. There is no need to, either. Jesus, our
Intercessor, has it covered. No one in heaven can mediate on our behalf except
for Jesus Christ. Only God can hear and answer our prayers. The temple veil was
torn in two (Hebrews
10:19–20); the child of God on earth has just as much
access to God’s throne of grace, in Jesus’ name, than anyone in heaven (Hebrews
4:16).
https://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-saints-Mary.html
Queen of Heaven is a title given to the Virgin
Mary, by Christians mainly of the Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, in
Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. The title is a consequence of
the First Council of Ephesus in the
fifth century, in which Mary was proclaimed Theotokos in Greek, a title
rendered in Latin as Deipara or Mater Dei, in English "Mother of
God".
https://werdsmith.com/genesology/VodjCBvxk IMPORTANT!
Jeremiah 7:16-20
Jeremiah 44:17-25
1 Kings 11:5
https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/queen_of_heaven.htm
The goddesses Asherah, Anat and Astarte first
appear as distinct and separate deities in the tablets discovered in the ruins
of the library of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria). Some biblical scholars
tend to regard these goddesses as one, especially under the title "Queen
of heaven".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Heaven_(antiquity)
Who is the Babylonian queen of heaven?
She was known as the "Queen of Heaven" and was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at
the city of Uruk, which was her main cult center. She was associated
with the planet Venus and her most prominent symbols included the lion and the
eight-pointed star.
Is Ishtar the queen of heaven?
Ishtar, called the Queen of Heaven by
the people of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the most important female
deity in their pantheon.
June 18, 2017Craig Truglia6 Comments
The pagans believed that
the souls of the dead, both good and bad, were deities of sorts. Essentially,
good people became angelic demigods when they died, the wicked became demonic
demigods, and those who were not quite bad or evil became a demigod of an
uncertain nature. These demons can be prayed to in order to attain protection
or blessing (akin to a guardian angel or patron saint) and also prayed for in
the case that their afterlife is not in paradise.
https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2017/06/18/pagan-versus-christian-prayers-for-and-to-the-dead/
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