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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
. . . . Paul likewise emphasized praying to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, and explained that it is through Christ that we now have access to God. . . .
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It seems that "through Christ" was something he (Lee) couldn't get his arms around unless that meant to pray to Jesus first. But to me, it seems that the meaning is that "through Christ" would be more like synonymous with "because of Christ" in this context. Therefore, because of Christ — because he did all that he did to open the way to God, including death (concurrent with the tearing of the veil), burial, resurrection, etc. — we now have access to the Father.
So the instruction to pray to the Father remains. It is was not just a "pre-cross" instruction that was replaced with a new instruction to pray to Christ afterward.