Ancestor Worship Definition: The practice of honoring and venerating dead ancestors (ceremonially or otherwise) in the belief that they are conscious in an invisible realm and can help or bring harm to the living and are therefore to be appeased. Not a Bible teaching. Are dead ancestors aware of what the living do and are these ancestors able to help living persons? Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” Job 14:10, 21: “An earthling man expires, and where is he? His sons get honored, but he does not know it.” Ps. 49:10, 17-19: “Even the wise ones die, together the stupid one and the unreasoning one perish, and they must leave to others their means of maintenance. . . . At his death he cannot take along anything at all; his glory will not go down along with him himself. . . . His soul finally comes only as far as the generation of his forefathers. Nevermore will they see the light.” Is it not true that food placed on an altar or a grave remains untouched? Does not this indicate that the dead are unable to benefit from it? jw.org
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