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See post #44.I'm just a mortal man, like you. I have no more power to pray on your behalf, than you have to pray on your own behalf. I have no power to meaningfully intercede on your behalf, with God.
The premise on which the veneration of saints is based seems to rest heavily on the premise that being in the same place as God, they are in a position to address him more directly than we mortals are able to do, and to influence Him in a way that we cannot. The idea that we can pray to them, and get them to influence God on our behalf, would appear to make them intercessors of the sort that the Bible makes clear is a role belonging exclusively to Jesus.