Not disputing the the "Daddy", disputing the "Direct access". "through Jesus Christ our Lord" isn't just a formula, it's how prayers are made in fact, we believe..
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Hogwash.
What's so complicated about
COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN.
COME UNTO ME LITTLE CHILDREN.
EXCEPT YOU COME AS A LITTLE CHILD.
A little child comes how?
"DADDY . . . . . !"
--IT HURTS, DADDY.
--I WANT, DADDY.
--I LOVE YOU DADDY.
Very eccleasiastically pontifically bureaucratticaly complicated, that.
Oh. I see. How wrong I was! But this well-reasoned, articulately expressed and persuasive argument immediately convinces me of the error of my thinking.
/sarc
Seriously, I already knew you disagreed. Calling what I say hogwash doesn't add to that knowledge and doesn't incline me to adopt your opinion.
COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN.
The Speaker is Jesus. Jesus is the Son, not the Father.
COME UNTO ME LITTLE CHILDREN.
Who is the speaker? (And where is this text?)
EXCEPT YOU COME AS A LITTLE CHILD.
Is this in the Bible? There's something like it late in Matthew, but it's in a saying about entering the Kingdom of Heaven, not about access to the Father.