Just curious - where to you place someone who is dead? Vastly the majority of the Church is dead, you know, even its Head. And the very foundation of that Church is dead men (cf. Ephesians 2:30) and the few writings they left behind millennia ago. Still, excluding the latter, because of their peculiar relationship to God, there's all those folks inhabiting those hoary centuries of the faith. Can they be mentors?
Just curious - where to you place someone who is dead? Vastly the majority of the Church is dead, you know, even its Head. And the very foundation of that Church is dead men (cf. Ephesians 2:30) and the few writings they left behind millennia ago. Still, excluding the latter, because of their peculiar relationship to God, there's all those folks inhabiting those hoary centuries of the faith. Can they be mentors?
They can absolutely be mentors!