I was just reading the blog of a Catholic and in it he quote 2 Maccabees 12:46 "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." Is praying for the dead supported anywhere else in scripture? The author of 2 Maccabees states that there may be errors in that book. Since both Catholics and Protestants believe the Bible to be divinely inspired doesn't the author of a book of the Bible saying there may be errors in it mean that specific book should not be considered inspired and thus doctrine should not be taken from it?
2Maccabees 15:38 So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.
2Ma 15:39 Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.
2007-10-27
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