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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Prayer is not just supernatural communication. It's worship directed toward a deity.
This sort of dead people intercession flirts close to their other pet doctrine called purgatory.
Jesus is our intercessor, the Spirit is our intercessor.... we don't need to worship and pray to mortals to make sure God hears us. What's the point?
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Not always. In older forms of English the phrase, "I pray thee..." was directed at people who were standing right in front of the speaker. It was a means of petitioning and asking either a question or asking for aid.
Many cultures "pray to the dead" - not because the dead are "deified;" but because they are believed to be able to hear and to then pass along the communication to others including Deity.
This may or may not be a mistaken notion (see
Psalm 115:17 and others); but it's not necessarily "worship."
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