Patriarchy Lecture Part VII of VII

“The Development and Practice for Patriarchy:

Cure for Cultural Decline or New Gnostic Disease”

presented by Cynthia Kunsman, RN, BSN, MMin, ND

Part VII of VII of the
Workshop for the EMNR Apologetics Conference, March 7, 2008

hosted at the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Video by Raphael Martinez of Spiritwatch Ministries




Correpsondence from someone who watched the video:

There was a comment made that Bruce Ware doesn't teach that Jesus can be prayed to because he wants to stay away from modalism. I happen to know that this isn't the case. Bruce Ware told me through email conversations with him that we are not allowed to pray to Jesus because only the Father is Supreme in the Trinity and so only the Father has the authority of hearing and answering prayers. Apparently Jesus' position regarding prayer is that it is in his authority in which we come to the Father and the Son then is the one who delivers our prayers directly to the Father. Ware says that we are theologically in trouble when we teach or let our children pray to Jesus. I presented strong scriptural evidence to Ware concerning the equality of Jesus' authority to hear and answer our prayers and he responded with the admission that the verses I quoted did give his position some problems. As such, he continues to hold to the position that Jesus' authority is not Supreme authority as the Father's is, therefore Jesus does not have the authority that the Father alone possesses that allows the Father alone with the authority to answer our prayers. He did say that the early disciples apparently had a special relationship with Jesus that carried on after his death, but we are not given the privilege to have a direct communication with Jesus in prayer.