[Cronos]

Mary can't hear prayer and can't answer prayer.

And on what basis do you say that :
a. hearing mortals is purely can only be done by God and not by those saved by him and in heaven.
b. That if it is so, that God cannot, well, pass on the message to his faithful?

[Havoc]

Do we have to repeat every argument on this thread for you?
Do you know scripture? Ecclesiastes 9. The Bodily dead cannot interact with the bodily living. Period. It is why Christ saw a VISION in Matthew 17:9 because to actually bring down the real people would have violated God's own statutes. How is it Judaism knows this and you guys don't. I've never gotten an answer on that and it isn't like I haven't asked it enough times. I know the answer; but, you guys don't seem to. And given they predate Christianity by a bit and Catholicism by even more and Roman Catholicism by more still, one wonders how the "one true" church is ignorant of this to the point of trying to skirt it or explain it away. God was smart enough to leave little stumbling stones like this to trip up frauds. Just like the one they left which the Watchtower must have missed about Christ having a solid body after arising. Oops. The "one true" is supposed to know these things. You'll note that Ecclesiastes isn't stating a part of the Law. It is merely stating a truism as to what God allows and disallows and which speaks to the nature of bodily death. And Jesus coming doesn't change the nature of bodily death - it still occurs.