If prayer is worship, and worship is for God alone, how can 'christians' pray/worship anyone else?

Question

I expect a lot of unfounded answers as usual, but use a little logic, then reread the scriptures.

Meg M & Morkie -- using your sources I cut & pasted the following

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pray
2 : to address God or a god with adoration, confession, supplication, or thanksgiving
1 a (1) : an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought (2) : a set order of words used in praying b : an earnest request or wish
2 : the act or practice of praying to God or a god
3 : a religious service consisting chiefly of prayers -- often used in plural
WORSHIP
2 : reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence
3 : a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem

And your point?

Answer 1

>>If prayer is worship, and worship is for God alone<<

Except prayer is not necessarily worship. In fact, worship is not necessarily worship. Seriously, friend, you need to read the dictionary.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pray
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/prayer
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/worship

Answer 2

You equate prayer with worship, and herein lies your error. Prayer is communication between a temporal being and a spiritual being and is not the same thing as worship, which must be offered to God alone. I can pray directly to God, as I do when I say the Our Father, or I can communicate with Our Lady and ask her to speak to her Son for me, as I do when a pray a Hail Mary. This is not idolatry, anymore than it is idolatry to ask my friend to pick me up at the airport. It is simply a recognition that the saints in heaven are in the presence of God and can assist us in the way a friend might assist us. Or do you believe that saints are less capable of helping us when in heaven than they are on earth?

Answer 3

No Scripture says pray to,worship,or even to call Mary anything other then a young virgin maiden chose by God to have the Messiah.

Answer 4

Considering that many say they are christians and still listen and follow others who do not worship the one true God in their lives. I wonder where folks are coming from myself.Either your for God or the things of this world.<><

Answer 5

We cannot. God has said not to pray to or worship anyone else. It is unrighteous and unfair to our Creator, and it serves no purpose and will cause great disappointment and despair as anyone else we were to pray to or worship would not be able to fulfill our needs or respond to us the way that we need, the way that only God can.

Answer 6

Exactly...that's why God says in Exodus and Deuteronomy, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God."

So all this worshipin of money, cars, people, things that give external happiness, but no internal fulfillment, is wrong for Christians to partake in. The only being I pray to and worship is God. What has anything else done for me like my God has done? Nothing.

Answer 7

Well, it's plain and simple. There is more to worship than prayer. You can sing and worship, read your bible and worship, you can worship in anything you do. It's what you worship. If you spend more time watching T.V. than spending with God, you are worshipping the T.V. because your putting it before everything else.

Answer 8

Worship is for God. Prayer is for anyone "up there". Don't confuse the two. Worship is an emotion, like love (only much stronger), or it can refer to the exhibition of that love. You can love someone, you can be busy loving someone, you can talk to someone, and you can talk about that love - but they are separate.

Prayer is an action.

Answer 9

Christians should only pray to/worship God.

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Answer 10

Well they shouldnt i wont say that they cant because its happening all the time but they really shouldnt worship or pray anyone else but GOD.