[Cold Heat]

I just can't accept the idea of a Saint. Sorry, but that is just not within me and I find it foreign. I do not even accept everything the UMC espouses.

However, to answer your question....Yes, I have participated in many prayer threads. I believe that live people can pray, but I don't see how a dead one can. When one dies, one is no longer of this earth and I don't think they listen to prayers, or why they would be necessary to intermediate.

OK by me if you do. That is why we have a diverse religious community.

[tiki]

As a Methodist, don't you recite the Apostle's Creed? "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins and the resurrection of the body."

[CouncilofTrent]

So you don't except the fact that people go to heaven?