Prayers to Mary and Saints

Prayers to Mary and Saints

The problem with these wishful prayers is more than that they are praying to the wrong people for help.


They are praying to DEAD people.


This sin of necromancy is expressly forbidden in the Bible (De. 18:10-13).

Necromancy is defined as:

"conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events."

(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-

webster.com/dictionary/necromancy).

That means anything asked of dead people is communicating with them in order to influence the course of events.

The reason this is forbidden in the Bible is because it gives the enemy a big opening to deceive people.

Yet the Roman Catholic Church has been promoting this practice for centuries!

There is only one God and His Son is alive sitting at the right hand of God. Christians are to pray to our living Savior.

Mary recognized her Son as her Savior (Luke 1:47).

Therefore it is useless to pray to a dead woman who has no power to do anything for the living.

She is to be remembered for that fact the God chose her to bear His Son, but she is not to be venerated and worshipped.

The same goes for dead Christians. By the way, every Christian is a "saint" (Col. 1:26, Eph. 3:18) not those installed by the Pope and his Cardinals.

Articles to read:

Doctrines of the Rosary And Prayers To Mary (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat971.html)

Prayers From The Dead (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat956.html)

Prayers For The Dead (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/cat958.html)

Roman Catholicism Compared To Biblical Christianity (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/rcc.html)


Praying to Mary and the Saints (http://www.letusreason.org/RC7.htm)
The "Evangelical" Seduction (http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5829)


History & Development of Mariolatry (http://www.christian-witness.org/archives/cetf2004/mary_mary27.html)




"God has many names and can be worshipped under other names as long as he is identified in the culture as a

'supreme being'" (Or the FATHER")

There is an immediate problem with this idea.

Ac 4:12 Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."


That name is Jesus Christ and He is the only way to eternal life and the Father (John 14:6).

God gave Moses His name when He asked Him. It is "I Am That I Am" or YHWH (YHVH). That is His name and Yeshua is a derivative of Yahweh.


He does not go by the name of Baal, or Allah, or Osirus, or any other name.


Joh 20:31 But these are written that you may {Some manuscripts may continue to} believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.


Mt 12:21 In his name the nations will put their hope." {Isaiah 42:1-4}


Mike Oppenheimer and I wrote a very important book on this subject called

"Idolatry In Their Hearts".


I hope many Christians will read this book to remind them about what the Bible tells us about YHWH.

The fact that many Bible translation organization as substituting the general term of "God" in the Bible for the specific false god called "Allah" has already gotten people killed in Muslim countries.


YHWH is not Allah.


Articles to read:

Is Allah The Same As YHWH? (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/allahyhwh.html)
Allah of Islam, Is He Yahweh God of the Bible? (http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Abualrub/allahs_identity.htm)
IPM False Teaching About The Names Of God (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/ipmnamesofgod.html)
Is Allah God's name (http://www.letusreason.org/islam6.htm)
Io- The Hawaiian Supreme God (http://www.letusreason.org/Current68.htm)
"Blasphemizing" The Bible (http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/blasphemizingthebible.html)