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Effective prayer must be a scripturally informed response of persons saved

by grace to the living God who can hear and answer on the basis of Christ's

payment of the penalty which sinners deserved.

The object of prayer is God alone , through Jesus Christ as the Mediator. All

supplications, therefore, to saints or angels are not only useless, but blasphe-

mous. All worship of the creature, however exalted that creature is, is idola-

try, and is strictly prohibited in the sacred law of God. Nor are we to pray to

the Trinity as three distinct Gods; for though the Father, Son, and Holy

Ghost be addressed in various parts of the Scripture; 2 Corinthians 13:14;

2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17, yet never as three Gods, for that would lead us di-

rectly to the doctrine of polytheism. The more ordinary mode the Scripture

points out is to address the Father through the Son, depending on the Spirit

to help our infirmities; Ephesians 2:18; Romans 8:26.