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1 | pray to God or Jesus or same?? | Rom 1:8 | reilly1041 | 93815 | ||
This question is probably very basic, I am just confused. In Romans 1:8, Paul thanks "God through Jesus Christ" for the Roman believers. What does "through" Jesus Christ mean? That Paul prays his thanksgiving to Jesus, using Jesus as the mediator between himself and God (as in 1 Tim 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus...")? But then I read John 16:26-27, "In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. " which makes it clear that Jesus is saying that we petition directly to God. So my question is --- do we pray to God or to Jesus or does it not matter because of John 10:38, "but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father." As you can see, I am confused. Thanks for your help, reilly |
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2 | pray to God or Jesus or same?? | Rom 1:8 | Elijah | 93820 | ||
You pray to God threw Jesus,Jesus is mediator between us and God, when you pray, you pray to the father and you seal that prayer with Jesus name, it's like a postage stamp, if you don't put the stamp on the letter it dosn't go where you want it to go, Jesus is as he said,Gods son and they are not the same being, they function in unity just as any loyal son honers his fathers will | ||||||
3 | pray to God or Jesus or same?? | Rom 1:8 | GeorJoy | 94026 | ||
Although I am sure some do, I wouldn't call Christ a "seal" on our prayers to God. More like a pathway. I like the postage stamp thought though, for without that stamp, the prayer is useless, and not going to get to it's destination. But what about what Jesus said in Joh 10:30 "I and my Father are one?" George |
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4 | pray to God or Jesus or same?? | Rom 1:8 | Radioman2 | 94053 | ||
Will God answer your prayer if you don't end with, "In Jesus' name, Amen?" Learn what praying in the name of Jesus really means. "I think Jehovah's Witnesses really miss the point by making the big fuss about God's real name, Jehovah. Even the word Jehovah is a conflated (combined) name using portions of two different Hebrew words. We're not even sure what the tetragrammaton really was and what it was pronounced like. After you translate it into other languages, it has a different sound anyway. "What is surprising, though, is that Christians have a very similar practice. We think we are doing something spiritual and end up doing something superstitious. In the process we don't really do the spiritual thing that we intended to accomplish. The "name of God" or "in the name of Jesus" means something different than repeating those words. "Read the New Testament. It says there... "Anything you ask in my name, that will I do." We have presumed that what that means is that we must add a phrase after prayer . . . in order to make it work . . . " "Just about every time we finish praying we tack this phrase on at the end, "In the name of Jesus. Amen." We do that because we were told to pray in the name of Jesus and God would answer. We expect that in doing so it seals the power of the prayer. I think that is superstitious because praying in the name of Jesus doesn't mean saying, "In the name of Jesus." (...) "One thing you will notice when you highlight every prayer, every supplication towards God that is uttered in the text of the New Testament is that you will never see a New Testament prayer that ends with the phrase "In Jesus' name. Amen," even though the same text teaches you to pray in Jesus' name. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion that we are, first, to pray in the name of Jesus, and second, praying in the name of Jesus doesn't mean ending your prayer with the phrase "In the name of Jesus. Amen," because it is never done in the New Testament. "Ending prayers with that phrase might do nothing whatsoever to the efficacy of your prayer. I even submit that it might be hurting your prayer, depending on what you mean by the phrase. "What does it mean to pray in the name of someone if it doesn't mean saying, "In the name of..."?" To read this entire article, go to: In the Name of Jesus by Gregory Koukl at the following website: (www.str.org/free/commentaries/theology/nameofje.htm) 18508 |
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5 | pray to God or Jesus or same?? | Rom 1:8 | GeorJoy | 94078 | ||
I have a strong feeling that yours was more a statement than a question. It is apparent you are not listening, for you did not answer my question. Thus I will waste no more of your time. George |
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