Right - according to YOU Protestants - this verses makes clear that NONE are righteous.
Uh huh.
Sooo - WHY does James state that the prayers of a RIGHTEOUS person are very powerful (James 5:16)?
Ofcourse, Because Protestants Know, Becoming a "saint", is according to Gods Way,
(not according to Catholic men deciding what men are "officially" "saints")
This correlates perfectly with Rev. 5:8 and the Heavenly intercession on our behalf.
LOL - Heavenly intercession IS the Lord Gods OFFERINGS and WORKS:
His Word, His Blessings, His Gifts, His Body, His Blood, His Forgiveness, His Salvation, His Quickening....
Protestant saints ON Earth send their PRAYERS "TO" the Lord God IN Heaven, Full well KNOWING Gods Truth; THAT:
John 9:
[
31] Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
We Protestants also KNOW,:
Saints on earth pray "FOR"... People on earth, that they might be healed. (You know, maybe not...Protestants know...Healed; is Saved and Quickened).
James 5:
[
16] Confess your faults one to another, and
pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
The Prayers OF the saints, are presented to the Lord God...BY ... Angels!
Tob 12:
[
15]
I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Rev.8
[
4] And the smoke of the incense, which came with the
prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
In YOUR bizarre world, they don't.
YOU say, In MY BIZARRE WORLD, People do not go to Heaven....??
Seems you disagree with the Lord also.
John 3:
[
13] And
no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
However - going to Heaven to be with Him for eternity is the hope of EVERY true follower of Christ (John 14:3).
Protestants know, mans body's do not come down from heaven, nor go up to heaven.
Saved souls, Quickened spirits go to Heaven in a place which is prepared to receive and keep them....UNTIL the Earth is Renewed.
A saved mans eternity IS ON A RENEWED EARTH, WITH HIM also on Earth!
John 14:
[
3] And if I go and prepare a place for you,
(Saved soul, Quickened spirit)
I will come again,
(To where they last saw Him...in the clouds;)
(Acts 1:
[
9] And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and {B] a cloud received him [/B] out of their sight.)
John 14:3 Continued;
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
(In the clouds, and returning from the clouds "WITH HIM"...to the earth).
And that's why you are Scripturally ignorant.
Nothing I have said is NOT verified in Scripture.
However you do repeatedly show your own ignorance of NOT spiritually understanding Scripture.
states in NO uncertain terms that the bowls of incense being taken to God are the prayers of the SAINTS.
The unconverted are NOT called "saints" in the NT - ONLY those who are born again in Christ are referred to as "saints".
You pay attention..
WHAT (ie the prayers OF the Saints) was NEVER disputed.
NO ONE called the Unconverted "saints"..
You pay attention...
What YOU PREACH is disputed.
You preach PRAYING "TO" Saints...
Yet NOTHING you presented, speaks of anyone PRAYING TO SAINTS.
What s going on in this verse is intercession in its purest form.
What's going on is YOU PRAY TO saints...
You use Heavenly Saints as YOUR intercessory.
I, AS a saint, PRAY to the Lord God, that men who are NOT saints, might be healed, with the Lords intercession, and become a saint themselves.
As Always, Scripturally taught the intercessory FOR the Unsaved... IS: JESUS.
Gods High Priest.
(Not the Law, Not men, Not Angels, Not Saints, Not men appointed Priests)...
Heb 7:
[
25] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.