Are Protestants in the habit of hanging pictures of dead loved ones in their homes for the purpose of honor?
2. Can you give me one example in the Bible of a person praying to anyone but God?
Ummmmm... does the transfiguration count? You know, when Jesus was praying to Moses and Elijah? OH -- but they were already DEAD!! Oh -- that must mean -- it isn't USELESS to pray to those who've already died!
***Are Protestants in the habit of hanging pictures of dead loved ones in their homes for the purpose of honor?***
Do Protestants kneel daily before those pictures, professing the love and devotion to them. Asking them to grant their requests and petitions?
No.
If they did we would call it idolatrous "ancestor worship".
***You know, when Jesus was praying to Moses and Elijah?***
Jesus, being God incarnate, would not need to "pray" to his own creatures. Recheck the passage. I think you will find that Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus while he was praying to his Father in Heaven. (Luke 9)
But it is interesting that you bring that passage up. Peter, James and John were awed by what they saw on the mountain. So awed that they wanted to do something to honor Jesus, Moses and Elijah. But how did God Almighty respond to this?...
"He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said,
"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."
When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and have no fear."
And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only." - Matt 17
"... Jesus only."
God the Father tells the disciples to put their focus on Jesus.
Jesus.