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To: JesseShurun; RobbyS
"we are careful to pray only to the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ."

Really? Have you ever asked anyone else to pray for you. For if you have, then you 'prayed' to that person -if by pray you mean, "to ask., or seek something." If, on the other hand, by pray you mean 'worship,' then we, too, only pray to (worship) the One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In fact, this brings up a point I've been meaning to raise with Protestants. You continually cite Jesus as the only mdeiator between us and the Father. Yet, if you ask someone to pray for you, then you are using that person as a mediator between yourself and Christ. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with this, indeed, its scriptural. Its just that I think the point needs to be made that asking someone to pray for you is not erecting a mediator between yourself and Christ, thereby diminishing Christ's role as mediator.

49,790 posted on 04/29/2003 5:57:10 PM PDT by AlguyA
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To: AlguyA
Yet, if you ask someone to pray for you, then you are using that person as a mediator between you and Jesus

I ask the church body to pray for me when I need it, and I have seen miracles happen from the praying. I don't ask just anybody to pray for me. Since the church body is the body of Christ, is in Christ, there is no mediator but Christ

49,808 posted on 04/29/2003 6:03:35 PM PDT by JesseShurun (The Hazzardous Duke)
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