{"id":42639,"date":"2014-08-26T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=42639"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:58:11","slug":"you-cant-pray-to-dead-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/you-cant-pray-to-dead-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Apology: You can’t pray to dead people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing in my series of brief apologetic responses, today I would like to look at the subject of Saintly intercession. As I mentioned last time, these will not be thorough, nuanced rebuttals, but simply how I typically would reply\u00a0when I only have a brief window of opportunity to respond to objections to my Faith.<\/p>\n

Objection<\/h2>\n

I often see on internet forums the following common objection to\u00a0Saintly intercession:<\/p>\n

“You can’t pray to dead people”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Response<\/h2>\n

In response to this objection I point out that the Saints are not<\/span> dead:<\/p>\n

“…have you not read what was said to you by God,\u00a0\u2018I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob\u2019?\u00a0He is not\u00a0God\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0dead, but\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0living<\/em>.\u201d<\/em> – Matthew 22:32<\/span><\/p>\n

If Jesus says that the Saints (“Abraham…Isaac….Jacob”<\/em><\/span>) are alive and well, then I think it’s pretty safe to assume that they are indeed alive. Last week we had the Feast of the Transfiguration when Jesus speaks with Moses…a “dead” man (Matthew 17:1-4<\/a>). Therefore, it is incorrect to call those Christians who have passed away “dead”. They are more alive in God than they have ever been!<\/p>\n

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Continuing in my series of brief apologetic responses, today I would like to look at the subject of Saintly intercession. As I mentioned last time, these will not be thorough, nuanced rebuttals, but simply how I typically would reply\u00a0when I only have a brief window of opportunity to respond to objections to my Faith. Objection I often see on internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[887,842,913,2969,925,888,757,84,595,2758,263],"class_list":["post-42639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-abraham","tag-alive","tag-dead","tag-featured","tag-intercession","tag-isaac","tag-jacob","tag-jesus","tag-moses","tag-quick-apology","tag-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44322,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42639\/revisions\/44322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}