“oh...so you don’t pray for family and friends?
God wants each of us to pray only for our own selfish interests?”
I pray for others to the one true God in Christ Jesus’s name. Mary is sleeping awaiting the return of Christ as God holds her spirit, so why would I ask her to pray for me?
John 3:13 -
“No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.”
Job 14:12 -
“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”
You misquote John 3:13.
It does NOT say “gone”.
It reads “ascended”, which refers to “under their own power”.
You will note that Mary was “Assumed”, not of her own power.
Reconcile your Job citation with Moses and Elijah appearing with Christ in front of Peter.
If they had not been in heaven, where do you propose they were following their departure from earth?