To conclude she is dead is to reject eternal life.
Pagans said the same thing.
However, there is a vast difference between being alive on earth and "alive" in heaven. One is physical; the other spiritual.
Nowhere in Scripture does God tell us to pray to anyone in heaven other than the Triune God.
“To conclude she is dead is to reject eternal life.”
Who are the dead/sleep in Christ that Paul mention if not all of the saints who have gone on before, including, I expect Mary?
1Th 4:15-18, “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
That’s only if you are depending on her to save you. She can’t, Petronski.
I do not say Mary is "dead" as in "in hell". I'm saying she is physically dead (departed) and presumably in Heaven. But in any event, why would my salvation be dependent on Mary or what became of her? If the fact was that Mary was a sinner, as the Bible says, would all of humanity be doomed?