Are you saying those in heaven are dead?

So now you pray to Jesus? I thought you prayed to God in Jesus’ name?

Gee. It’s almost like the Bible isn’t as cut and dry as many of you claim it is, and we need the Holt Spirit to teach us the truth of the scriptures no matter what they say.

They aren't dead, they're alive to God.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:22-23

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:1

For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”

Luke 20:38