Apocalypse: 8:3-4 ~ “And another angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it on the earth, and there were thunders and voices and lightnings, and a great earthquake.”
Where in these verses can you establish that ‘departed Christians’ (saints) can hear from the living and can make supplications for them ?
(And, was book of Apocalypse determined to be Biblical canon by the Council of Nicea which is commonly accepted, or determined later by RCC?).
And from Revelation 8 you’ve made the leap that dead saints are on equal footing as our Lord Jesus interceding for us to God the Father? Why they’re not even physically raised from the dead yet. And how do you know these “saints” aren’t in purgatory (or worse places)?