“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.
Oh?
And you got this info from THIS???
“Before Abraham was I am.”