Following only what is clearly and specifically spelled out in Scripture minus anything else actually would me a tradition of men, Gideon. And would lead us to have to seriously debate / call into question things like the Holy Trinity, the nature and deity of Christ, the fate of our souls after death, and what salvation is and what it means. The exact same debates that embroiled those fighting against error in the first few hundred years of Christian history, and which the Reformers themselves could not agree on.I encourage people to read their Bible carefully. You should take this very seriously. Do not follow the customs of people who tell you to pray to Saints, or other departed souls.
Fund the passage in the OT where the king Saul and his son Johnathon are in deep trouble. So they go to a medium, a spiritist, to raise up Samuel from the dead. Samuel was a prophet of God, and possibly the greatest prophet of all. The Bible does not say that the attempt failed .. in fact the medium was succcessful, Saul did speak to Samuel.
Stop and thnk about this. Did Saul ask to talk to a witch, or to Harry Potter? No, he did not. Did Saul ask to talk to someone without faith? No, he did not. Samuel was a "Saint", in the same way that you are using the word.
So Saul and Johnathon asked to talk to a Saint, a prophet of God who had died.
How did God respond?
God struck down Saul and Johnathon ... dead.
Dead on the same day that they did this.
God was angry.
The commandments were broken.
Do not pray to the dead. And do not get involved with mediums, spiritists, or fortune tellers. Pray to the Living God!
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