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To which Saints may a Catholic pray, and when can this begin?
Actually a catholic can privately pray to anyone whom he/she thinks can intercede on their behalf. In fact Catholics do not see any difference in asking you to pray for me and asking my dead grandma (if I believe she is in heaven) to pray for me.
Is it restricted to only those who are designated ...
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The fundamental assertion of Open Theism is a fairly simple proposition - it posits that God experiences time in a fashion not unlike that of mere mortals. Unlike the more mainstream understanding of God's relationship to time - namely that God does not exist in time, nor is He constrained by it, in Open Theism, God, like man, is unaware of what the future ...
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I had this question myself a few years back, and spent quite a while reading through the Bible to get an answer. What I found was that there is no explicit mention of other life in the universe apart from what is on earth and the spiritual/heavenly realm.
And by spiritual realm I mean a wide category of creation mentioned in the Bible, from angels to demons ...
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This is not an answer but a scientific clarification, please delete if inappropriate. But since the OP asked
(correct me if I'm wrong)
Lights on earth are only visible from space if you are very close.
The only planets we can actually "see" are the ones in our solar system. As far as we know these don't carry any life at all
With the aid of Kepler ...
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Jas 3.1 I think your question has no definite answer as the Bible does not say. I agree with what Mawia essentially said but I'd like to point out that in the extra scriptural accounts of heaven by Jessie Duplantis Kat Kerr Rebecca Springer. They, to the best of my knowledge, believed the old bodies would be reassembled fixed and come out of the ground. They ...
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This long passage may be sufficient to answer the question.
1 Corinthians 15:35-54 (NIV)
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of
body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to
life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that
will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something ...
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The basic question here is about Catholic “praying” to saints. It is not exactly a prayer, but it is like asking saints or even Mary to pray to God on our behalf. Catholic only ask for their “intercession” not pray to them.
Regarding sub-questions:
Which saints are qualified to receive prayers?:
Only those are venerated as saints, who are designated as ...
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