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To whom are you asking all those dead people to pray?

To God?

If it is God, then Scripture tells us there is only one mediator between ourselves and God -- Jesus Christ.

To pray to anyone other than the Savior who is solely responsible for your salvation is superfluous, and hedges dangerously toward giving to dead creatures the glory that is due the Creator alone.

"Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye `forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." -- Deuteronomy 4:23-24

When Christ instructed his followers to pray, He was specific. He didn't say "Our saints, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy many names..."

"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." -- Matthew 6:7-8

To whom are you asking all those dead people to pray? To God?

Yes.

If it is God, then Scripture tells us there is only one mediator between ourselves and God -- Jesus Christ.

Not a problem here. Is your problem concerning intecessory prayer that they are "dead"? Again. I think this is the question: What is the Communion of Saints? Are the Saints in heaven part of the body of Christ.

You still have not clearly answered this question. I think it is at the core of our different faiths.

You would not have a problem asking saints on earth to pray for you, but saints in heaven is a problem. So clearly, I think, this is where we disagree. yes?

To pray to anyone other than the Savior who is solely responsible for your salvation is superfluous, and hedges dangerously toward giving to dead creatures the glory that is due the Creator alone.

Amen.

Heb.4:15-16

We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmites, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace that we might obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.