Originally posted by DigitalInkling
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The Athanasius quote was not talking about prayer to the Father or the Son, it was a refutation of Arius' doctrine of God being "the unoriginate", meaning that the Son had a beggining, or "origin". Athanasius never condemns or refutes prayer to Jesus.
I do not have access to the text of the Councils, so I will not be able to analyze them.
But, this brings up a rather interesting conundrum for the Mormon... Since they claim Jesus IS YHWH, and YHWH required prayer to Him alone, the insistence that Jesus should not be prayed to becomes problematic.
Exodus 34:14
14. For you shall worship no other god; for YHWH, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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