Is it okay to teach your kids to pray to a dead saint?

Is it okay to teach your kids to pray to a dead saint... like by writing a letter to one and asking for a bunch of toys.

Is it acceptable to lie to your own children and tell them-- using the same mouth you use to say that God split he Red Sea and raised Jesus from the dead-- that a magic fat guy flies around in a sleight and brings presents to all the houses in the world?

Is it wrong to present this dead saint as an omniscient man who knows everything about them, and if they aren't good, that he won't bring them any toys?

It's the same thing... I don't care if people laugh at my post.. They will discover on the day of judgement the truth of the matter..

I don't observe the RCC Saints myself, but for the reasons above I find it hard to judge RCC Christians for their faith.

People die for many things every day. The Roman church authorized the many deaths of real saints.

34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

Aside from distancing themselves from certain popes, they pretty much hold the line on their authority to do whatever they wanto.

And nowhere, in the New Testament, did Christ ever kill or order the killing of anyone.

Yet, the god of this world, seen in the Roman Church and in Islam, has ordered the slaughter of untold millions.

That's your major mistake you think they are Christians.. They are not Christians they belong to a works salvation cult that denies the effectivness of the Atonement of the LORD Jesus.. Thats why they invented the doctrine of purgatory where they say peopl;e go after death to have their sins purged..

no it is not O.K. to pray to anyone but the Living God. It is not O.K. to lie to children about santa. the truth must be told always. Children are not stupid and deserve the truth.

Is it okay to teach your kids to pray to a dead saint?

I can use a phone and talk to a living friend or family member. Is there anywhere in the Bible that tells us that we don't need to be with them face to face or talk through the phone?

I quote you stated, "living friend or family". The dead are conscious of nothing... Ecclesiastes 9:5. Keep your prayers exclusive to God, the Father and ask them through Jesus Christ the password to God.

This rhetoric presupposes that the RCC would be the Whore of Babylon.



I'm no RCC expert, but I imagine that they would actually have fairly concrete hermeneutics. It would be great to have an RCC expert in here to test.



Well, you know, except Rev 19:21, Rom 13:4, etc.


It's funny that you would imply that the god referenced in the Talmud would be the God of the Bible and yet somehow you count RCC Christians as devil worshippers.

I quote you stated, "living friend or family". The dead are conscious of nothing... Ecclesiastes 9:5. Keep your prayers exclusive to God, the Father and ask them through Jesus Christ the password to God.

Much of Western culture hinges upon Roman Church tradition. That is why it is difficult for one who grows up in the West to know the distinction between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world.

If you think the god of the Talmud is the God of the Bible, there really isn't much more to say beyond that.

For all I know you are just another Dispensationalist pretending to be Christian.

Roman Catholics are Christian. Dispensationalists are not.

So your statement that the catholic religion is Christian is promoting the cult of rome on this website..

I believe you meant to post this in the gaslighting thread.

Nope.. i do not play games.. I post what i believe..

The Bible says no one can say Jesus is Lord without the Holy Spirit. Catholic Christians believe and profess this, just as all other Christian denominations, so we are Christians too: "Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit." (1 Cor 12:3)

St. Augustine wrote long ago: "By God's Grace and Christ's Favor we are Catholic Christians." This was the way the Early Christians referred to themselves. St. Ignatius of Antioch (died A.D. 107), after the Apostles' Creed, was the first to use the term "Catholic Church", which means "Universal Church - or Church in every nation" (see Rev 7:9).

Anyway, Bible also says if anyone confesses Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and He in God. We do this, hence God dwells in us: "15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God." (1 Jn 4:15)

Finally, the notion that the Catholic Church is Anti-Christ is laughable, and contradicts Scripture which says Anti-Christ cannot confess the Father and the Son, i.e. the Trinity, just like he cannot confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, which only those who have the Holy Spirit can confess: "22Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son." (1 Jn 2:22) Does the Catholic Church do this? Nope. Islam does do it.

Will get back on the Saints in Heaven later. As mentioned, it's not correct to refer to Living Saints in Heaven as "dead". That's what the Sadducees did, and Jesus Christ corrected them, by saying God was the God of the Living, not of the dead. He showed by that statement, from the only 5 books the Sadducees accepted, the Pentateuch (source below), that God, who had declared Himself the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the time of Moses, that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were living Saints in Heaven. The Sadducees erred on this issue in part because they rejected many later books including Maccabees which clearly explain the Truth of the Resurrection already in Old Testament times, as well as of Angels and of Spirits/Living Saints etc.

"The Sadducees refused to go beyond the written Torah (first five books of the Bible) and thus, unlike the Pharisees, denied the immortality of the soul, bodily resurrection after death, and—according to the Acts of the Apostles (23:8), the fifth book of the New Testament—the existence of angelic spirits." https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sadducee

That's why they were sad, you see!