Why do Protestants think when one dies?

I know exactly what you're saying. We are told repeatedly by Protestants that Mary and the Saints are dead in their graves and can't hear us. So yes, they DO say that when they are bashing Catholicism. However, when it's to their advantage, they admit otherwise.

This 'protestant' doesn't think that. I regularly ask for the intercession of the saints in heaven. FYI I also recognise the true presence of Christ at Communion. Why am I a 'protestant' then? Because that is the label you have given me.

I think most Protestants, at least the evangelicals, believe that those who have died are resurrected in new glorified bodies in heaven.

However, I'm not sure this knowledge affects their understanding of asking the saints for help. Many seem to assume that the saints are dead, rather than alive, and that asking the saints for their prayers is akin to necromancy. This, of course, is not the Christian view.

Luke 20:38: "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."

Cheers,

Bruce

they do not know the difference between salvation and redemption. Redemption is when Jesus came and died on the cross, and in the process RE-OPENED the gates to heaven that had been shut since the sin of Adam and Eve.

I've been a Protestant all my life and I have never met or read about any of us who believe what you think we believe. You must have misunderstood someone or else talked to a very weak or new Christian who doesn't know anything yet. I am 68 and been around Protestants all my life. Which group were you referring to?

Most protestants that I know don't think that.

They think our body dies,but our spirit lives on.

I'm not sure that's what Protestants actually believe. Even if they do, can you prove them wrong? No. And can they prove you wrong? No. It must be wonderful to have such conveniently unfalsifiable beliefs.

I don't know which protestants you are referring to and about.

'friendship'? Christ is more than just a friend to mankind.

I did not know that, wow I just gained a little bit more respect for Protestants, thanks for the heads up.