Why not ask prayer from the people who have made it?
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BECAUSE
NO WHERE
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
DID CHRIST, THE LIVING WORD, unequivocally so instruct His followers.
AND
There are several points in the NT where The Father seems to go to extra lengths to insist that HIS SON ALONE IS WORTHY; HIS SON ALONE IS SUPREME INTERCESSOR.
And going to lessers WHEN GOD ALMIGHTY INSTRUCTS US CLEARLY TO GO TO THE SUPREME INTERCESSOR
IS MUCH MORE
than a little
CHEEKY.
It COULD be construed as insulting or even rebellion or blasphemy.
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You have an only child—a son. The apple of your eye.
He grows up very obediently. He goes to college and performs with honors . . . going off to the Navy as an officer where he distinguishes himself in several battles.
He comes home after 6 years ready to join you in the family firm. You make clear to him, being at least 10% as well heeled as Bill Gates, that IF he has any need whatsoever, he is to come to you directly. That it is your delight to serve him and train him directly.
After about 6 months, you are hearing reports from all over that he is going to your secretary; to his uncle; to the janitor; to your personal valet; to your driver; to the gardner; to your wife—his mother; to your sister; to his grandmother; seemingly he’s going to everyone under the sun but to you. But you know your instructions were very clear—that he was to come DIRECTLY TO YOU. THAT IT WAS YOUR DELIGHT TO HEAR HIS REQUESTS AND MEET THEM.
But he seems to want to have none of it.
And your feelings and attitude would be?
Amen.
"That God's word damns your ceremonies it is evident; for the plain and straight commandment of God is, 'Not that thing which appears good in thy eyes shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but what the Lord thy God has commanded thee; that do thou; add nothing to it; diminish nothing from it.' Now unless you are able to prove that God has commanded your ceremonies, this his former commandment will damn both you and them." -- John Knox (Knox, Works, 1:199. Cf. Calvin, The Necessity of Reforming the Church, in Tracts, 1:128-29.)
"The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication. It tells us not only of the Christ and his work, but it also tells us who God is and where the universe about us has come from. It tells us about theism as well as about Christianity. It gives us a philosophy of history as well as history. Moreover, the information on these subjects is woven into an inextricable whole. It is only if you reject the Bible as the word of God that you can separate the so-called religious and moral instructions of the Bible from what it says, e.g., about the physical universe." -- Cornelius Van Til, Christian Apologetics (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1976), p.2.
So you don’t ask friends and loved ones to pray for you? How odd.
By the way, the Orthodox always pray to God as well as asking our friends and loved ones to pray for us as well.
So, you see, your analogy is so off the mark as to be quite silly.
Amen to your post. 1Tim.2:5, Heb.7:25