His angel was declaring good news of a great joy. Doesn't mean they should have bowed to worship or pray to the angel.
"As to prayers being addressed to ones other than God, Acts 8:34"
Ahhh, you left out the beginning AND the end...one must start at Acts 9:26 and end at 35.....
Also....where in Acts 9 does the Bible state the paralyzed man prayed to Peter?
It was said firmly and more than once that God certainly does not share his glory with another. Here is a passage where there are angels and shepherds, but no theophany right there. BUT there IS the Glory of the Lord shining around them. You all made a claim, I addressed that claim. NOW your comment is:
Doesn't mean they should have bowed to worship or pray to the angel.
But that wasn't the matter I was addressing. Part of your over all claim was about God's glory. I addressed that part of the claim.
Now nobody is saying they should worship the angels. Nobody is saying anyone should worship Mary. Why are you arguing against something we are not saying? And the situation was not one in which the shepherds are recording as having anything they wanted to say to the angels, (well, maybe "Yipes!") so there's nothing here about praying to the angels.
The claim was about Glory. I have addressed that claim. You set a task, I complete it and then you complain I have not done some other task!
What does the Ethiopian eunuch have to do with Peter or paralysis? You guys! The text in the KJV is "And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, ...." And how or why I should start at Acts 9:26 and end at (;35 to interpret 8:34 utterly escapes me.
You asked for a text. I gave a text.
The problem is, I think, that you think "pray" means something you only do toward or with God. The KJV shows that the word is used in other ways. But that's not persuasive to you.
We AGREE that there are some things that belong only to God. Because of God's uniqueness and His unique due, some aspects of communication with Him are different from aspects of communication with saints and angels. We think communication with saints and angels is possible. You don't. So let's talk about that, not go around and around in circles about prayer where you insist the word means one thing and we insist it means another.