My bible says to pray FOR other people but NOT to other people...If you've got a bible that says that, I'd like to see it...
Protestants in America have stolen the word pray which has two meanings and does throughout the English world.
Protestants didn't steal anything...There ARE two uses of pray in the scriptures...The one is to make a request...The other word for pray is worship...
So while you 'pray thee' in a prayer to Mary, you are requesting something of Mary whom you are worshiping...
Well then how do you interpret these writings:
No need to interpret anything...Just believe what it says...
1 Timothy 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
A request that live people on earth pray for other live people on Earth...
James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Live people on Earth are to confess their 'faults' to other live people on Earth, and pray FOR each other...
Ephesians 6:18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Obviously the verse isn't speaking of saints in heaven...They certainly don't need our prayers...We are instructed to pray to God...There's nothing in the verse that indicates we pray to anyone else...
1 Thessalonians 5:25 Brothers, pray for us.
Again, live humans on Earth praying for other live humans on earth...
Paul wrote these passages after Jesus’ resurrection. Are you saying that Paul didn’t have a good understanding of the proper way to pray? Paul does NOT ask us to only pray for one another. He also, based on Thessalonians, believes that it is OK to ask others to pray for us. This is a prayer in itself.
Paul says to ask other live Christians on Earth to pray to God for us...
Do you know the words to the Hail Mary? It is a prayer asking Mary to pray for us. It is not a prayer of adoration, which is due to God alone.
A prayer is a prayer is a prayer...If it's a prayer, it IS adoration as far as the bible is concerned...
Just because your religion invents its own definition doesn't at all change the scriptures... James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Ephesians 6:18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 1 Thessalonians 5:25 Brothers, pray for us. Paul wrote these passages after Jesus’ resurrection. Are you saying that Paul didn’t have a good understanding of the proper way to pray? Paul does NOT ask us to only pray for one another. He also, based on Thessalonians, believes that it is OK to ask others to pray for us. This is a prayer in itself. Do you know the words to the Hail Mary? It is a prayer asking Mary to pray for us. It is not a prayer of adoration, which is due to God alone. And in the OT: Job 42:10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Well I made a mess of that at the end...