We just watched a movie with Daniel, and how the angels appeared to him. But if you noticed in the account Daniel always directed his prayers to Jehovah God. And that is what got him thrown into the lion's den.
Mary interacted with the angel gabriel. Zechariah interacted with the angel. Saul interacted with the spirit of Samuel, and Samuel prophesied to him, and the prophecy came true. The apostles saw Jesus with Moses and elijah. The poor man Lazarus was taken to Abraham's bosom in the parable.
I said some of that stuff before, but I've seen you say more things about how it's wrong to communicate with souls in heaven, and nothing in scripture says that.
I've read the Bible from Genesis to revelation. The only condemnation of communication with the spirits of the dead, is necromancy, summoning spirits from Sheol. The Catholic Church forbids necromancy, summoning spirits, and holding seances as well.
Jesus brought a new covenant. We don't follow much of the old covenant anymore.
Even you do not follow the Old Testament. You don't Stone people for working on sabbath, you don't Stone adulterers, you don't commit genocide, therefore you do not follow the old testament, which says to do all of those things.
The Old Testament condemns summoning souls from Sheol, because we don't know if they are malevolent spirits. However, there are spirits in heaven as well.
I have experienced their help, prayers, and blessings, and they have helped me out tremendously. We are family.
I wouldn't be complete without them
or have any love for God, because it was women in heaven that lead me to love God , fear him, and pray in Jesus name. How could they be demons, if they are leading me to love and fear God, and seek his will??.
I prayed to God many times, and he did
not help me grow in virtue like praying the rosary did. The Virgin Mary has helped me grow in charity, purity of heart, and overcome sins, far more than any other devotion I have ever practiced.
An enormous amount of miracles have taken place linked to Mary and the rosary, like the miracles of fatima, guadalupe, Lourdes France, unlike any other miracles since the time of christ.
The greatest miracles I've ever read about since the time of Jesus Christ walking the earth and the apostles and paul, were miracles linked to apparitions of the blessed Virgin mary.
God is working through the mother of Jesus the Messiah, I have no doubt in my mind. Scripture says all generations will call Mary blessed.
Scripture says Mary is full of grace and blessed among women.
Revelations chapter 12 talks about a woman in the sky, clothed with the sun, standing on the moon.
The Virgin Mary left a miraculous image on Juan Diego's Tilma, and it converted 15 million Aztecs at guadalupe. In the image she is standing on the Moon , clothed with the sun, as if to fulfill that Scripture. Scripture says those who keep the commandments of God, are children of this woman!
Scientists have examined the Tilma, and they say there's no painting or brush strokes on the cactus fibers, that there's no explanation for why that image is there.
It led to the conversion of much of Central and South America to convert to one single religion, that acknowledges Jesus as Lord and savior.
I see nothing wrong with having friends in high places , and friends in heaven, and Scripture doesn't say there is anything wrong with it either.
There's nothing in the Bible that condemns the practice!
It was the practice of the early christians.
Nothing in the Bible says that every practice must be found in the Bible.
Most of what Jesus taught and did, is not even found in scripture. The Bible says that if everything Jesus said and did was written down, a library could not contain it all.
The word of God is not limited to scripture.
Jesus Christ built a church. Jesus said " listen to the church". The Bible also says that God changes his mind. It's a direct quote from scripture. And thousands of years have passed since the Bible was written down. For all we know God has changed his mind since then. Google "God changed his mind, relented, repented of the evil he planned on doing to Israel".
The Holy Spirit told me that God changes his mind, and the scriptures tell me that God changes his mind.
Jesus didn't say to read the bible is all that important, and the first Christians were not Bible christians.
The church that Jesus Christ founded has always sanctioned having friendship with souls in heaven, since before Constantine, it was the practice before Constantine existed, and has been the practice ever since.
And I have already shown you that the belief that the dead are conscious of nothing, is found in Old Testament poetry not meant to be taken literally, and goes completely against other scripture verses, that make it very clear that the dead do go on living.
Not to mention, the greatest miracles since the time of Jesus Christ , are linked to apparitions of the blessed Virgin Mary.
The Holy Spirit has made it very clear to me, both inside the scriptures, and the Holy Spirit has spoken many times since the Catholic Church put together the Bible, through the saints, through Marian apparitions, and through many Prophets that have existed since scripture.
It is very clear to me that there are souls in heaven who pray for and bless the souls on earth.
Friendship with these souls is why I'm still alive today. And that is the only reason I pray to and bless God, because they led me to do so. And it is not spiritism either. Neither is it condemned in scripture.
