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What does Scripture have to say in regards to Believers praying to the saints, such as what is done in the Roman Catholic faith?
Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards (witches), who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their Elohim? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
PRAYING TO THE SAINTS IS WITCHCRAFT.
The teachings of the Roman Catholic Church that instruct its members to pray to dead saints is mixing worship of the Father, the Most-High GOD of Israel, with witchcraft, as defined explicitly by the above verse.
Scripture tells us that the Father HATES the mixing of the holy with the unholy.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
"Do not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defile. Do not plough with an ox and a donkey together. Do not put on a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together."
If the vineyard represents the Body of Messiah and the seed represents the Word of Adonai (Luke 8:11), then when the seed of Adonai's Word is mixed with the seed of teachings (such as praying to saints) that are not affirmed in the Word, the end result is crop failure. While some good fruit surely grows as a result of teaching the Word, the intermixing of the holy and unholy (the seed of the Word and the seed of false teachings) results in spiritual defilement in the Body of Messiah.
ADONAI HATES MIXTURE.
The mixture of an ox with a donkey for ploughing represents the life-giving and proper tilling of soil (by the ox) mixing with the unequally yoked ploughing (donkey) of one who teaches man-made doctrine.
ADONAI HATES MIXTURE.
The servants of Adonai, those made righteous by the blood of Messiah (Revelation 19:8), are not to mix with the wool of the world which is not pure and righteous by Adonai's Biblical standards. We cannot serve the Father and embrace the traditions and ways of the world (James 4:4).