| | According to Jaroslav Pelikan (Credo, 169), the church father Origen at one point insisted that we may not pray to Jesus Christ because in the Lord's Prayer we are taught to pray to "Our Father." Pelikan goes on, "But Eric Jay has pointed out 'that Origen is not always consistent and that his devotion to Christ led him both himself to pray boldly to Christ and to encourage others to do so, even though when he comes to write a treatise on the subject he is unable to justify the practice theologically.'" In other writings, Origen does become more open-minded to the practice of praying to the Son. After all, it's pretty hard to argue against it when the apostles themselves did it, even after having been taught by the Lord himself in person.
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