Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: pmafire!geoff@uunet.uu.net (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Why invoke the Saints? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 02:51:24 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu jrossi@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Joe Rossi) writes: > >You don't understand why they pray to saints. >I don't understand, often why, we pray to Jesus. >When we can pray directly to God. Because Jesus *is* God. Praying to Jesus is praying to God. >I don't understand why we can see God in the Bible, >But not in the tree that became the Bible. Because Christianity isn't pantheistic. God isn't in the tree in the pantheistic sense. He's only there in the sense that you can see in the tree the wonder of His creation. In the Bible, we see His explanation of life to us. In both cases, we see His work, not Him directly. -- Geoff Allen \ Since we live by the Spirit, uunet!pmafire!geoff \ let us keep in step with the Spirit. bigtex!pmafire!geoff \ -- Gal. 5:25 (NIV)