“Why pray to someone who can’t hear you? Why pray to someone, who, if she could hear you, CAN DO NOTHING for you?”
It’s astonishing to me how very, very different what passes for Christianity in parts of the West is from that which The Church has lived for 2000 years!
Agreed. It is a shame that Christianity has been perverted by those RCC and EO who would seek to add to the Scripture, to add to the what God requires for salvation, thus perverting the Gospel and becoming "another Gospel" -- a "gospel" that is to be ignored according to Scripture.
If you can't find it in the Bible, you don't need to do it to have salvation.
It's just that simple.
Hoss
We have how many examples in the NT of people praying to the departed believers.