“Elijah and Moses appeared and conversed with Christ. He didn’t pray to them.That may be a distinction without a difference. Are you saying we can communicate with the saints but we can’t ask them to pray for us?”
No... I’m not saying that we can communicate with “the saints.” We pray to God. We don’t pray to saints. Why pray to the saints to pray for us when we can pray directly to God himself???
As for Sola Scriptura, that issue will be argued from now until Kingdom come.
Hoss
I wouldn't base the argument on need, and you know that el standardo answer that we ask others to pray for us, while it's not clear that we need to (though we seem to be told to pray for others.)