can anyone give me an example in the bible...?

Question

where a follower of God, prayers to someone other than God...?

if not where do you get the idea its ok to pray to someone other than God?

and what makes you thinkt hat praying to anyone other than god will do anything more? i have yet to read a verse that using a mediator between god and you, will do anything more.

like where is a verse that says you need a mediator between you and god?

prayer1 /prɛər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[prair] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a devout petition to God or an object of worship.
2. a spiritual communion with God or an object of worship, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession.
3. the act or practice of praying to God or an object of worship.

- how is this ok?

when it says not to worship any but God?

coholt that really has nothing to do with praying. i dont understand your point.

christ as a mediator is hardly an issue if you believe christ is god incarnate.

Answer 1

NOPE!

Scripture could not be any plainer about the identity of the true intercessor:

"... It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." Romans 8:34
"... he (Jesus) maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." Romans 8:27


The Bible reveals that anyone who reaches the Father must go through Jesus Christ:

"For through him (Jesus) we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." Ephesians 2:18
"According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access..." Ephesians 3:11-12

EDIT: But it was through His blood...

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Answer 2

You make an excellent point. A mediator is NOT required and the only way to a truly personal relationship with God is to be as personal as you would be with any one else. I have been as angry or as sorry with him as I have ever been at any time in my life. Raging, cursing, screaming, sobbing, and then of course, laughing and enjoying. I am his daughter. He NEVER fails me though I fail myself miserably when I don't follow him. Nothing can stop me from living 'happily ever after' ever again because I finally know my place with HIM.

Answer 3

We are told to pray to God, through Christ. And through Christ ONLY. Catholics seem to think Mary can intercede for them, but that isn't Biblical. She was just a human like the rest of us and has no special ability to intercede. If she did, we would be told that in God's Word.

God bless!

Answer 4

Chippy, there are innumerable examples in the Bible -- but none of them portray such worshippers as being acceptable to God. Such emphasis is placed on these activities in the Bible that I'm shocked most folks answering your question haven't mentioned it. For example, the Bible records that many of the ancient Jews prayed to God AND to pagan "deities," such as Molech and Ashereth. In fact, paganism became so prevalent in Israel that, at one point, the Temple in Jerusalem contained images of pagan deities (it also housed both male and female ritual prostitutes). The entirety of Ezekiel Chapter 8 condemns these practices.

There are also examples of Gentiles who followed pagan "gods" and also prayed to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The most notable example is the Persian King Cyrus, who acknowledged that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was God; yet history records that he prayed to pagan deities, as well.

Answer 5

God tells us to worship only HIM. And the NT speaks of Jesus being our only mediator between us and God....

Luke 4:8
And Jesus answered him, "It is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God,and him only shall you serve.'"

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Answer 6

It's not o.k. to bow down to another God because there is only one God and he is the one that everybody should believe in!

Answer 7

There isn't one. Not one time did ANYONE ever pray to any but God.

Saul in the OT did summon dead Samuel, and God judged Saul for it strongly.

Answer 8

Pray to God, pray to St. Anthony, pray to your sock drawer - what difference does it make? Perhaps Catholics are just more realistic.

Answer 9

God had sent Jesus to forgive sins, but after his resurrection Jesus told the apostles, "‘As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained’" (John 20:21-23).

This is the establishment of the Sacrament of Penance (Confession). Christ told the apostles: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (John 20:21).

Just as the apostles were to carry Christ’s message to the whole world, so they were to carry his forgiveness: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matt. 18:18).

This power was understood as coming from God: "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:18).

Indeed, confirms Paul, "So we are ambassadors for Christ" (2 Cor. 5:20).

Some say that any power given to the apostles died with them. Not so. The powers necessary to maintain the Church as a living, spiritual society had to be passed down from generation to generation.It would take much time. And he promised them assistance: "Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Matt. 28:19-20).

The Catholic Bishops (and Eastern Orthodox Bishops) are the direct successors of the Apostles through the laing on of hands. There is an unbroken line of 265 popes going back to Peter himself. In this way, the authority to forgive sins was handed down. But again this power is understood as coming from God: "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation" -2 Cor 5:18

Answer 10

Can anyone give me an example in the bible where a follower of God used underarm deodorant? Or uttered the word "hovercraft"? Or ate onion rings?

I guess that means that all those things are evil, right?