>> That’s about like me praying to my grandmother that passed on. <<
Yeah, it is. Most Americans are Protestant, and yet most have talked to dead people. The difference is that saints in heaven have been purified of anything which separates their will from Christ, and are no longer subject to temptation. So, you can have a best of both worlds when you pray for a saint’s intervention:
1. Like when you ask an earthly person to pray for you, you have the power of praying in unison with another soul.
2. On the other hand, you have the assurance that the other person you are praying with is praying for something that is fruitful towards your own salvation, since being in union with Christ in Heaven, they cannot pray for evil.
And that’s why Catholics call certain saints, “Saints.” It’s not denying that there are saints on Earth. It’s just that there are certain individuals that we are know are in Heaven, and so we know it’s good to ask them to pray for us. You’d want to know you weren’t praying to a soul in Hell amongst the demons to pray for you.
If you’re quite confident of your grandmothers’ salvation, why not ask her to pray for you? But then, wouldn’t it be better still to ask the perfect mother to pray for you?
No, the difference is no one builds a cememt statue of their grandmother and drops to their knees to pray to the statue...
Protestants don't put their statues (of granny, or anyone else) in a lighted bathtub and stick it in their front yard...
If Scripture told me to do that, I would, but I can't find any Scripture guiding me to pray to any human that has passed on, I direct my prayers to our Hevenly Father though Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.