Subject: Is praying to created beings scriptural? |
Bible Note: CDBJ I note you have not addresed my question about corporate prayer and people asking one another for intercessory prayer. Are they violating a rule that we must go directly to God alone? Or are they honoring the fact that we are all in Christ and therefore interceeding for one another through Him, with Him and in Him? The communion of saints is in our union with Christ. Are the dead saints still in Christ? If so we are still in communion with them and can still ask for their prayers just as we do here. I will not bother to quote the numerous passaages to support the practice of Christians praying for one another. Was the Holy Spirit in conflict with the teaching of Jesus on the Our Father when He inspired those other passages? God is the God of the living as Jesus pointed out and the saints who have gone before us are alive with and in Christ and we are "surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses." Emmaus |