“Like asking a RC if they pray to dead people.”
I’m a Catholic here and I’ll take your bait to simply respond that I’ve NEVER prayed to a dead person in my life. As I am sure you know, “pray” means to make a request or ask. I have requested the prayers of many fellow Christians on this earth as well as of the saints in heaven.
I have every reason to believe that the saints of heaven are much more alive in Christ than you or I. If you dispute this, than we have a very different understanding of the power of God’s saving grace.
Thanks for the QED.
The Book says the saints are SLEEPING in their graves; awaiting the RESURRECTION.
We are encouraged to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. But the only recipient of our prayers is God alone.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them." -- Psalm 115:1-8"Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.