What does the Bible teach about worshiping the dead?

Answer 1

At Luke 4:8, we read, "In reply Jesus said to him: "It is written, 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.'" So our worship belongs only to God. This leaves no room for the worship of the dead, or any other gods.

Answer 2

The Bible (in Katherine 1: 4-12) states that praying for souls is strictly prohibited. In no means does it say that praying for persons (living) is against any will of god.

AnswerPraying for the dead is an erroneous pagan belief introduced in the 2nd Century AD to the Roman Catholic Church, and carried over to many Protestant churches. It is not Biblical: prayers should be for the living while there is still hope of repentance, not for the dead, who can't do anything.

Answer 3

One of the things that the Bible says about the dead is found in the Epistle of St James:

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

God has a plan to redeem all of His children, even those wicked souls who lived in days of Noah. He sent His Son to them also, though they were long dead.