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NASB | 2 Corinthians 6:2 for He says, "AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU, AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU." Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME," behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION"-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says, "AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME (the time of grace) I LISTENED TO YOU, AND I HELPED YOU ON THE DAY OF SALVATION." Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME," behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION"-- [Is 49:8] |
Bible Question: I would like to know what the bible says about praying for the dead. I thought I had read a scripture that said it was good to do so. I have been teaching a boys Sunday school class and one of our youg boys wanted to know if it would help to pray for a young unsaved friend who had been killed in an accident. |
Bible Answer: Suzy, The answer to your question depends on whose bible your are using. Catholic bibles contain two books of Macabees which were part of the Greek translation of the Old Testament used from the earliest days of the Church. There you find this passage: 2 Macabees 12:38-46 "Judas rallied his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the week was ending, they purified themselves according to custom and kept the sabbath there. On the following day, since the task had now become urgent, Judas and his men went to gather up the bodies of the slain and bury them with their kinsmen in their ancestral tombs. But under the tunic of each of the dead they found amulets sacred to the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. So it was clear to all that this was why these men had been slain. They all therefore praised the ways of the Lord, the just judge who brings to light the things that are hidden. Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin." There is also the question of the unsaved boy. How can anyone but God know if he was saved or unsaved. Prayers for the dead cannot save the souls of the lost or damed. They can strengthen and encourage the souls of the just or saved dead undergoing the final purification from any last vestiges of sin. However, your question dis not involve Purgatory. It can be documented by the early writings of the Church Fathers that prayer for the dead was a common Chritian practice from the early days of the Church. And 2 Macabees shows that it was also a practice of the Jews prior to the coming of Jesus. Emmaus |
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