[Warlord]

"There is NO Biblical basis for anyone to believe the false teachings that dead people who are now saints in heaven hear our prayers and intercede for us."

Is there a "Biblical basis" to support the assertion that the teaching is "false"?

"Mary was an ordinary girl who God used in a miraculous way, but she has no power to intercede on our behalf."

St. Luke's Gospel notes that Mary was "full of grace" and "blessed among woman." It also notes that every generation would call her "blessed." From the Cross, Jesus offered Mary to the world (through St. John) as our Mother. A fundamental purpose of a mother is to intercede for her children.

[sbrogden]

She will be called blessed by every generation, as you have cited. But Jesus gave her to the care of John as his "mother", to care for her as Jesish custom dictated. Not as the mother of Christians - that concept is unsupported and faulty.