The Bible does not teach to pray to Jesus

Fred said:
It was already refuted in the second post.
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Do you begin your prayers with an address to the Father?

Matthew 6
6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
 
TomL said:
Sorry you ignore many examples of prayer to Christ

1 Corinthians 1:2 (LEB) — 2 to the church of God sanctified in Christ Jesus that is in Corinth, called to be saints, together with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours.

2 Corinthians 12:8 (LEB) — 8 Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me.

Acts 7:59 (LEB) — 59 And they kept on stoning Stephen as he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

1 John 5:13–15 (LEB) — 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

John 14:13–14 (LEB) — 13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Acts 1:21–25 (LEB) — 21 Therefore it is necessary for one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us—one of these men must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.” 23 And they proposed two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was called Justus) and Matthias. 24 And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show clearly which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place.”

Rather you ignore context and the definition of prayer
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Maybe runningman thinkgs John 14:13-14 does not qualify since Jesus was telling them to pray in his name instead of teaching them to do that. I like Acts 7:58 since Stephen specifically says Lord Jesus in his prayer. Runningman will just say that Thomas's acknowledgement of Jesus as God was just a meaningless statement. He probably would say Stephen was just responding out of fear and did not know he should not pray to Jesus.

Probably Runningman is saying that Jesus did not go upon on the mountain in Matt 5-7 and say "you do not know who I am but you should also pray to me." Short of the sermon on the mount lacking that statement, Runningman would deny that people are taught to pray to Jesus. So scripture has to be written with a focus of Runningman as the misinformed person who needs explicit statements in Matt 5-7 to know what to do.
 
mikesw said:
Maybe runningman thinkgs John 14:13-14 does not qualify since Jesus was telling them to pray in his name instead of teaching them to do that. I like Acts 7:58 since Stephen specifically says Lord Jesus in his prayer. Runningman will just say that Thomas's acknowledgement of Jesus as God was just a meaningless statement. He probably would say Stephen was just responding out of fear and did not know he should not pray to Jesus.

Probably Runningman is saying that Jesus did not go upon on the mountain in Matt 5-7 and say "you do not know who I am but you should also pray to me." Short of the sermon on the mount lacking that statement, Runningman would deny that people are taught to pray to Jesus. So scripture has to be written with a focus of Runningman as the misinformed person who needs explicit statements in Matt 5-7 to know what to do.
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Speaking to a man like Jesus who was directly beside them isn't a prayer. It was superseded by a later statement.

Maybe you don't believe.

John 16
23And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
 
Fred said:
Which proves you haven't opened your eyes.
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Yet the OP is not refuted. Read it again.

There are no examples of the word "pray" or "prayer" being used in conjunction with communicating to Jesus.

The Bible teaches to pray to God the Father. That's it.

Matthew 6
6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

9So then, this is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
 

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