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To: guitarplayer1953
show me where in the bible we have any other intercessor than Christ. I am open to your interpretation of the bible not traditions.

Do you pray for someone when they are sick or for any other reason? If you do, then you are an intercessor for that person.

17 posted on 05/12/2012 3:16:29 PM PDT by mtg
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To: mtg
I pray to Christ for that person I do not pray to dead people for that person, the practice of praying to and through dead people is older than Christianity. All the prayers in the NT for anyone is directed to Christ not to Mary or Peter or even Paul. When Paul was thought to be some sort of God and people began to treat him that way he tore his clothing and ran from them. That is how much of an abomination it was in Paul's eyes to direct adoration or prayers to him.

14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. 14:13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. 14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,

21 posted on 05/12/2012 3:38:57 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
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