The veneration and consultation of the dead are prohibited in Scripture (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). In pagan worship, the dead were venerated and buried in sites of worship. The God of Israel, however, is the God of the living and not of the dead. Anyone who came into contact with a dead person or a grave was considered unclean and could not take part in worship (Numbers 19:16; Leviticus 21:1).
In Catholicism, the worship of the dead is continued in the veneration of the saints. Catholic and Anglican churches are shrines for the dead. In Catholicism, no cathedral may be without dead bodies and graves. In fact, the sacrifice of the mass is for the dead and mass cannot proceed if there is not a relic of the dead associated with the altar. This is pagan necromancy, which the Bible strictly forbids.
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Learn the truth about death in our article "The Mystic Realm of Death".