DEBATE: Is it WRONG to pray to the Saints in Heaven? Matt Fradd Vs Cameron Bertuzzi
Pints With Aquinas
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Are the Elders Offering the Prayers of the Christians on Earth to the Father?
The idea that we cannot pray to the christians in heaven, i would say, is not only a minority, fringe view, it's also a novel view. Jerome, saint jerome, who translated the bible into latin in en the 300 or maybe to the early 400 says this: If apostles and martyrs can pray for others at a time when they ought still be solicitous about themselves, how much more will they do so after their crowns, victories and triumphs? And then finally, i could find john wickliffe, a who lived shortly prior to the protestant reformation,. Then, of course, you have luther and calvin who fully deny this
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