[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm pretty sure you've "funneled" a prayer through some other follower of Christ.

It's called the Body of Christ. We need each other. We pray with and for each other. We never stop, from here to eternity. It's what we do. 1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.

[ealgeone]

I'm pretty sure you've "funneled" a prayer through some other follower of Christ.

Not in the Roman Catholic sense. I've never prayed TO an individual as the Roman Catholic does to Mary. I don't believe, based on the Bible, that Mary has been granted the ability to hear all of the prayers she would have to based on Roman Catholicism.

The Holy Spirit does a more than adequate job of doing that for us! See how Rome attempts to replace the Spirit with Mary??

I don't rely upon another individual for salvation as the Roman Catholic does for Mary.

I rely only upon Christ for salvation (John 14:6).

I ask for people here on earth to pray for me. They are praying to the Father and/or the Son.

[metmom]

Catholics tell us that they pray to the departed and Mary and angels to ask them to pray to God for them.

But that’s not funneling a prayer to God through them. It’s praying directly TO them for them to ask God something.

So no way you can even begin to pretend that you are praying to God through them when you yourself admit you are praying TO them for them to intercede on our behalf.

[Elsie]

It's called the Body of Christ.

Pray thru me.

I'm purty good; and sometimes fairly righteous.