So you disagree with our faith, the original Christian beliefs. I get that.
What?! You mean the supreme standard for what the original Christian beliefs were is not the only wholly inspired substantive word of God, but the uninspired record of Catholic accretion of traditions of men?
Even the veracity of the oral preaching of the apostles was subject to testing by Scripture, not vice versa, let alone the writings of uninspired men who could err, and disagree with each other (and Rome), and even abuse Scripture (as Jerome).
Many fell away before Jesus was even crucified. Many more left afterward.
Indeed, as warned, in addition to false teaching in the church.
That doesn't make the teaching and belief wrong, in any way. It only makes your interpretation different than what was meant and taught. But it is scriptural. It's your interpretation that's not.
Which is a mere assertion, which those who sat in the seat of Moses could have used (and essentially did) against a band of itinerant preachers who reproved them by Scripture and established their claims upon Scriptural substantiation in word and in power.
On this issue I can present over 200 prayers to Heaven by believers, and with not one of them addressed to anyone by the Lord, and instruction on prayers which tells us to address Him, with only prayers to pagans making supplication to any other invisible being in heaven, and with quite a substantial record of what the NT church mainly believed, manifesting that prayer to created beings in Heaven (PTCBIH) was not one of them, despite this being a most basic common Catholic practice.
This is more a matter of deduction of the obvious than it is your attempted support of PTCBIH that is a matter of interpretation, requiring extrapolation after extrapolation as if we were trying to argue for pets being in Heaven.
How do we know? The disciples of the apostles who wrote the NT tell us.
Really? Then read Acts thru Revelation and tell me where you see PTCBIH. But no, it must be that you are arguing that uninspired post-apostolic men and ultimately your church is the supreme authority, based on upon the premise that the stewards of Divine revelation must be the faithful interpreters of it. Which in principal invalidates the NT church itself.
Remember, we have more than only Scripture, we have Sacred Tradition, which provides context to what the Bible teaches.
The Mormons and like cults claim the same, and faced with the absence of even one prayer to anyone else in Heaven by believers in over 200 prayers to Heaven, the appeal to another stream of revelation is the classic Catholic recourse.
However, men like the apostles did preach the formal word of God orally, but could speak as wholly inspired of God, and also provide new public revelation, neither of which RC popes claim to do, and yet can even require belief in an event which was so
lacking in valid testimony from early tradition that Rome's scholars opposed it as being apostolic doctrine.
No, I believe he did provide many examples, which you discount.
You can believe what you must, but there are zero examples of prayer to anyone else in Heaven by believers in over 200 prayers to Heaven in Scripture.