We can look at an image of a saint and be reminded that they are people like us, and they walked with Christ and found strength in Him. If they can do it so can we!!!
What’s wrong with that???
The problem is, that Jesus does not want you to worship Him like that, because that’s how pagans do/did it.
This is what Jesus answered the devil when he wanted Jesus to fall down before him:
Mat 4:9-10
“And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
for the someone who asked me if i thought Jesus not talked to or prayed to the angels that showed themselves to him to comfort him, this is the best answer. He knew what was right. So the only one he prayed to that we can read of in the bible was His Father that is in the heaven, God Allmighty.
And I just want to remind you of a few scriptures that really show the state of the dead. So that there is no mistake. It seems that you dont really ask for saint’s intersession, but pray to God instead, wich is good. But still, i want to paste these scriptures in here for the record…
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
(Psa 115:17)
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
(Ecc 9:5)
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
(Luk 24:3-7)
I think this is particularly interresting, because the angels ask why they seek the living among the dead. But after what i understand from catholics in general is that the dead (their spirit) is allready in heaven or purgatory or hell… But this shows us that the dead Christ was in the grave, not anywhere else.
And another thing i find puzzling; if all knew that people’s spirit where going here or there, especially if they where believers, why wouldn’t they be happy for the people that went to heaven, and not mourn, because they would definatly be in a much better place than here on earth. And why on earth would Jesus and the deciples bring back people from the dead, that’s like dragging them out of heaven again, to live in this miserable sinful world again… i know that if i was Lazarus, and had seen the beauty of heaven, just to get dragged back out again after several days in paradise, i would not be happy… i would be very disappointed…
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
(Rom 4:17)
The word quickeneth here means:
G2227
From the same as G2226 and G4160; to (re-) vitalize (literally or figuratively): - make alive, give life, quicken.
Make alive, give life, quicken… hmmm, this means to me that the person who was dead, and that is quickened, is made to come alive again… But after catholic thinking, this person is allready alive, in heaven, as a spirit? There is no need of making him come alive again, he IS alive, notice that this word does not mean “to get his body back.”
To be continued:
