[vladimir998]

“She can’t hear you. She was just a human, just like you.”

That doesn’t mean she can’t hear me. We will judge fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:3) - not on our own merits but on those of Christ. And through those same merits the saints can hear and intercede for us.

“Only Jesus can intercede.”

On His own merits, yes, but through His merits all of us can intercede for one another. https://www.openbible.info/topics/praying_for_each_other

[Old Yeller]

That doesn’t mean she can’t hear me. We will judge fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:3) - not on our own merits but on those of Christ. And through those same merits the saints can hear and intercede for us.

What if a million people in the world pray to Mary at the same time? Can she hear all of the at once? Are you saying she is omniscient or omnipresent like God?

[ealgeone]

>>“She can’t hear you. She was just a human, just like you.”<<

That doesn’t mean she can’t hear me. We will judge fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:3) - not on our own merits but on those of Christ. And through those same merits the saints can hear and intercede for us.

I provide the text you cite for context.

Paul is speaking of a future event in this passage regarding saints judging the world and/or angels.

1Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? 4So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? 5I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren, 6but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 1 Corinthians 6:3 NASB

Yes...it does mean Mary cannot hear us anymore than our departed loved ones can.

On His own merits, yes, but through His merits all of us can intercede for one another. https://www.openbible.info/topics/praying_for_each_other

And all of those examples are people on earth praying for people on earth or were prayers directed to God on behalf of someone.

There are admonitions in the NT to pray to anyone other than God.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I’m alive and I can’t hear you unless we’re in the same room.

There is no indication in the Holy Bible that you should ever pray to the dead or another human being.