As I continue my personal investigation of the Anglican church and the Orthodox church it would seem scripture teaches we are not to pray to departed saints:
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
(Isaiah 8:19 ESV)
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
(1 Timothy 2:5 ESV)
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
(Deuteronomy 18:10-11 ESV)
The Anglican 39 Articles of Faith apparently agrees with this view, but there are some "high church" Anglicans and anglo-catholic churches who do practice praying to the saints. The proponents of this practice would argue this is no different than asking a living saint (any believer?) to pray for you. After all, they say, those saints who have gone before us are not dead, but actually alive in heaven.
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