And as already said to you,
Even if they were watching this does not teach they are to be prayed to, or are interceding, but here the RC leaps to a conclusion the text does not teach, which is due to the fact that despite the multitude of prayers in Scripture, the Holy Spirit provides absolutely zero examples of any believer praying to anyone in Heaven but the Lord, or in any instructions on who to pray to in Heaven ("our Father who art in Heaven, " not "our mother," etc.), and communication btwn created beings from their respective realms required both being in either earth or heaven.
And yet as it is, Hebrews 12:1 does not necessarily teach that saints are literally watching us anymore than we are to be literally "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith," (Hebrews 12:2) but that in we are surrounded by the examples of faith listed in the previous chapter (11), and "look" unto the Lord of Scripture, the author and finisher of our faith.
My point is not what anyone else teaches.
My point is about having all the prayer possible from any realm possible.
“here the RC leaps to a conclusion the text does not teach, which is due to the fact that despite the multitude of prayers in Scripture, the Holy Spirit provides absolutely zero examples of any believer praying to anyone in Heaven but the Lord, or in any instructions on who to pray to in Heaven (”our Father who art in Heaven, “ not “our mother,” etc.), and communication btwn created beings from their respective realms required both being in either earth or heaven”
Again - Jesus himself was challenged by the Pharisees who asked this exact question. “You are only 30 and yet you have seen Abraham?”, and Jesus’s reply - “Before Abraham was I am.”
Jesus himself claimed a direction connection with God but here he affirms that Abraham was not dead - he was alive.