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To: XeniaSt; Dr. Eckleburg
You pray for people to come to know the savior of the world

Nobody should pray for anyone else. People should pray for themselves. After all, they can go directly to Jesus, can't they?

If we pray for other people, we're setting ourselves up as mediators in addition to Christ, and that's blasphemy.

We've been told that over and over again.

886 posted on 10/28/2007 2:22:02 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
If we pray for other people, we're setting ourselves up as mediators in addition to Christ, and that's blasphemy.

We've been told that over and over again.

How do you read what Peter said:

NAU Acts 8:24 But Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."


890 posted on 10/28/2007 2:32:28 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: Campion; XeniaSt
This is not rocket science.

We are to pray for the lives and faith and peace of our brothers and sisters who are alive on earth.

Those who have already died are either in heaven or hell, and ended up there at the moment of their death. There's no second chance.

We are to pray to the Triune God alone.

FOR/TO.

893 posted on 10/28/2007 2:40:12 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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