Requesting Prayer from a Brother is not the same as praying through a Saint.

I am responding to the comment about asking our others to pray on our behalf. It is not the same as praying to a saint on our behalf. There is nothing wrong or unbiblical about praying for one another. I also believe that we are supposed to lift each other up in prayer. I don't think that any of us believe if our Pastor prays for us that the prayer will be heard over ours. On the contrary, Catholics do believe whether their doctrinal statement says so or not, that the Saints as well as the priest prayers are heard over their indivual prayers, or they wouldn't go to confession or hold the virgin Mary in such high regards. The idea of asking a brother to pray for you has not been taken to the extent of praying through the saints. We do not make statues or wear beads, or have paintings of the brothers we ask to pray for us in our homes or churches. The idea of a person who is dead praying on my behalf is not logical. We also don't know for sure that just because the Catholic Church deems someone as a saint that they are held as a saint in heaven. Some Catholics don't even agree on who should become a Saint. There also is no scriptural basis for someone in heaven to have any interaction with the living on earth. I understand the point that was trying to be made in class, and some do fall into that category, but not those who know better. The bottom line is that praying for someone else is not the same as asking a dead person to pray for you. All men are created equally in the eyes of God.