Prayers to the Dead Are Forbidden in Scripture? WHERE?

ADAM: praying to the dead (saint or not) is forbidden in scripture.
BFHU: Where does scripture actually say that “praying to the dead is forbidden“? Asking a dead person for direction is DIVINATION! This is what is condemned in the Deut. 18 passage. Divination is NOT in any way comparable to the request for intercessory prayer [...]

I Was Taught to Pray to Mary as a Catholic Child

WG: I used to be a catholic until I started to read the Bible .
BFHU: Do you know how you came to have a Bible? The Catholic Church. Even Martin Luther admitted this.
As a catholic child I was taught to PRAY to Mary and the
other saints . This practise still goes on all over the [...]

Where is Sola Scriptura in Scripture Alone?

Nathan: Thanks for taking the time to write back to me. Last year I became a Christian and my life’s been totally changed by living for Jesus Christ. It’s been great
BFHU: That is wonderful. Thanks for letting us know.
Nathan: Last week I went to mass with a friend who has had a similar awakening in [...]

I Just Don’t Get Prayer to Saints….

Mike: I am still not making a biblical connection to praying through Mary of the Saints and would like some help.

BFHU: First, there is no verse that commands us to ask Mary and the Saints to pray for us. But, Sola Scriptura is a Protestant tradition not a Catholic one. This tradition of Protestantism [...]

The First Commandment & Worship

Q. What constitutes worship?
A. Adoration, prayer and sacrifice.
Q. Is bowing down an act of worship?

A. It can be. But Christian Europeans bowed and knelt before their kings and queens
and it was not considered worship but simply honor and respect. It is what is in the heart that determines the difference between an act of worship [...]

Mary Can’t Hear Your Prayers

NAV: Prayer is only to be directed to our God, who can listen and hear my prayer…
BFHU: Could you please support this with Scripture?
NAV: If we pray to Mary at the same time at different parts of this world do you think she could hear us?… only God could hear us all at the same [...]

Dead People Don’t Pray

Below is a comment from Praying to Saints is Wrong!
Comment: Praying to saints or Mary or anybody who is dead is wrong and quite frankly useless. Care to know why? Because they are dead and there is nothing that they can do for any of us.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-For the living know that they will die, but [...]

Can Anyone Suffer in Heaven?

Q. I’m greatly touched to believe that Mary and Jesus suffer with us in times of pain, but if Heaven is a place of peace and is without pain or sorrow, how can they suffer with us?

A. Hmmmmm… that is an interesting question. I never thought about those two things together.
Your comment made [...]

How Long Has Intercession of the Saints been in place?

Q. Does anyone know how long this Catholic practice has been in place and why it was instituted? To be honest, it seems to me that the information I have come across to support it is flimsy at best.
A. It has been around from the very earliest centuries of Christianity. This practice was taken for [...]

Jesus Did Not Ask the Saints to Pray For Him

 
Q. If Jesus, who is our ultimate example of how to live a holy life, NEVER asked a saint to pray for Him, why would we, as Christians, be encouraged to do so? In fact, no holy person of the Bible is mentioned to have done this?
A. This is true, however, I can’t think [...]