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It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio.

Welcome back.

Once again, thanks for listening to the Patrick Madrid Show.

We're going to keep on, keeping on with the emails.

And once again, I know I've said this several times yet this morning, but you can send me

an email by going to relevant radio.com slash Patrick.

Click on the connect button, and you'll be able to send me an email.

It comes right to me, and I'll be happy to read it. And if possible, even read it on the connect button and you'll be able to send me an email, it comes right to me, and I'll be

happy to read it, and if possible, even read it on the air. So this email comes in from Joan,

and she says, Patrick, a non-Catholic is arguing that it is useless or not necessary to pray

for the dead. As once a person dies, the decision is made and that God doesn't

change his mind. And there's no scriptural support for this. I found that Judas Maccabia

prayed for the dead, but the Protestants don't recognize that book of the Bible. Maybe you could

explain why they took that book out of their Bible, and was it the first time a Bible was printed in a

language other than Hebrew or Greek? Okay, you've got like three good questions wrapped into one,

Joan, so I'll do my best to try to get to as much of it as I can. So the first thing to

notice is that this non-Catholic friend that you're referring to, he's hitting the bull's eye on the

wrong target. He's correct that after somebody dies, his fate is fixed. It's permanent. It's irrevocable.

So as it says in Hebrews 927, it's a passage I quote often on the program, it's appointed to a man

to die once and then the judgment.

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