>>>>Blue, we now have a Man, a human, in Heaven, at the Father's favored right hand, making intercession for us. Remember that: A Man in Heaven, our representative.<<<<
Without Him, I'd have no prayer, no chance for one to be heard. Of that, there is no doubt.
Yet still, I don't pray to the Christ, save by praying to His true Father, as Jesus is attributed to having instructed.
They are both --- of the same stuff -- the same Spirit, there being no division among them, of that there can be no doubt, specially now, after the Christ's Ascension to where He was, just as He was before he came down from heaven in the first place. Assuredly now --- even more so than when Christ walked upon earth in form a man.
And they think Spider Man is indestructible. Wooo!
"And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit,
the redemption of our body.
. . .
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn(from the dead)
among many brethren" (Rom 8:28,29 AV; my insertion).
Time for another group groan . . .