Oh, I get it, so its not ok for some to repeat prayers, which in of itself is useless, God heard you the first time! Lol…but it’s ok for others to repeat prayers over and over again.
And it doesn’t always matter who was being addressed. Then I can say, since Paul wrote to the Ephesians, I don’t have to obey any precepts or commands, or recognize any doctrine in the letter, because by your logic, it is written to the Ephesians, and not me.
Furthermore where in that passage does it say he was talking to followers of Baal?? Luke 11:1 records that it is the disciples who asked Jesus how to pray. In Matthew 5, he was talking to the disciples for the whole of the chapter. How do we know?
Matt 5:1-2 - And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his DISCIPLES came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught THEM saying,…
And, whoa, the Bible talks about Jesus teaching the disciples to address/pray to the Father. He NEVER taught them to address or pray to Mary, so where did your inclusion of that heresy come from? That’s just biblical heresy, and I’m not talking about that in this thread.
And Rossum, how do you make a leap of “illogic” to go from Jesus teaching about “useless repetition” during prayer…and “Protestants (which I am not) who think that prayer to God is useless”??? JESUS taught that repetitious prayer was vain/pointless/useless (whatever synonym you want to use), lol, it wasn’t me!
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