Faced with the absolute absence of even one prayer to anyone in Heaven but the Lord, or of anyone but the Lord Jesus being the heavenly intercessor btwn God and man, hearing and answering, and without any insufficiency in access or efficacy, while believers have direct access to the Father by Him, and zero examples that show anyone but the Lord being able to hear incessant mental prayers in Heaven sent from earth, then RCs invoke believers on earth praying for each others to justify reasoning that they can do what we only see God being able to do. After all, the Scriptures do not say they cannot (or play pool with planets....).
And angels and elders simply offering up the prayers of saints as a memorial at the time of judgment is sppsd to support them actually hearing prayers addressed to them and sanctioning it, and while the absence of any prayers to angels in Heaven is said to be due to overreaction to laws against witchcraft! And they think this passes for Scriptural warrant for a most common Catholic practice that is utterly absence in Scripture.
Then they demand we take Jn. 6:53,54 literally, which to be consistent means no Prots can be saved who deny the Catholic Real Presence, which is inconsistent with what V2 teaches, but which is subject to interpretation. While they are further inconsistent by refusing to take literally the many other texts that refer to eating and drinking figuratively, including water being the blood of men and men being bread.
Then they invoke 1Tim 1:15 as somehow meaning the church of Rome is the supreme authority on Truth, or Mt. 16:18; Luke 22:32 and Jn,.20:23 as teaching Peter would be the first of a line of infallible popes ruling supreme over all the church.
And then there are the incredible examples of thinking of Mary above that which is written.
Scripture is simply a servant for Rome to support her as desired, not her master.
the absolute absence of even one prayer to anyone in Heaven but the Lord
Perhaps. Absence is not prohibition, is it?
And angels and elders simply offering up the prayers of saints as a memorial at the time of judgment is sppsd to support them actually hearing prayers addressed to them and sanctioning it
It is supposed to suggest that the saints pray, and the prayers are heard by God since St. John sees them delivered, and does not write "...but God ignored the prayers brought to him". Besides the "time of judgment in these chapters of the Apocalypse is also a description of any Mass.
Then they demand we take Jn. 6:53,54 literally
Yes, they do, because it is written the way it is. Read the scripture every once in a while without trying to deny half of what you read, and you will be Catholic again.