Originally posted by Leonhard
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Substance addiction falls under what not to do by the Greek word pharmakeia (Galatians 5:20).
I'm not talking about the people in heaven praying but people on earth praying to those in heaven who have departed.
For anyone to fully know the hearts of those who pray to those in heaven (because many times prayer is silent) would require omniscience. They would not fully know if the people praying unto them are sincere in their requests. None but the omniscient God would know this.
If I and a myriad of others silently asked a friend of ours to pray for our various concerns there is no way he could perform such a duty. That is the difference. It does indeed take omniscience to perform such an incredibly specific task.
Furthermore, if you are comparing asking a friend to pray for you and asking a person in heaven to do the same thing then for one the person on earth may forget to pray and two since both parties do not FULLY knows the hearts of such requests they may not present them to God PERFECTLY the way one can achieve when going directly to Him -> as they ought.
Romans 8:26-27 reads:
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (NASB)
To claim that prayers be made unto others besides God is asserting that they FULLY know the mind of the Spirit which is blasphemous for once again that would be asserting that they too are the heart-knower of all (omniscient) -> God.
So my accusations have NOT been answered. You and others try wiggling around the truth of who God is and what He alone is capable of knowing.
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