Wouldn’t God know the difference.
I do not want to sound like I am mocking anyone, but if you are praying with a true heart won’t God hear you even if it’s directed “down the hall?”
If we are talking Old Testament God, I would think not. But the New Testament God seems a little more forgiving.
I don't want to sound like I'm mocking anyone either -- that's why I would never want to mock God and pray to someone/something that is NOT God. Called idolatry. Or Mariolatry in this instance. Did not Christ teach his disciples to pray by saying, "pray like this: Father..."?
If I have access to God, through Christ, why would I pray to someone dead, hopefully in Heaven, but who cannot hear my prayers? Just doesn't make sense.
If we are talking Old Testament God, I would think not. But the New Testament God seems a little more forgiving.
I thought there was only one true living God... maybe you think otherwise, but there is only one.
Hoss
Wrong. If you look at what God put up with so often in the OT, even as the norm, than you can better understand the many descriptions of judgment. Study Ps. 78, 105, 106, Neh. 9; and read Hosea.
But God did provide more grace, and a better atonement, better high priest, better covenant (study the word "better" in Hebrew, KJV). Yet to whomsoever much is given in grace, much is expected and required. Thanks be to God.