re prayer in jesus name in article apr athos rutgers edu munns cae wisc edu scott munns writes i am doing a dormitory bible discussion with my christian roommate and in jesus name what about the people before jesus they prayed to god and he listened then in spite of their sins why can t it be the same way now insert huge deletion of all following material since it had little relevance to what i ve found ok the people before jesus didn t have jesus right so far i ve announced that space is a vacuum the people who lived during the time jesus lived especially disciples were taught this i tell you the truth anyone who has faith in me will do what i have been doing he will do even greater things than these because i am going to the father and i will do whatever you ask in my name so that the son may bring glory to the father you may ask me for anything in my name and i will do it john so jesus asked them to pray for things in his name since that time the request has been the same not to ask for intercession from other beings but from jesus remember that there is one god and one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all men the testimony given in its proper time timothy also there have been many of those priests talking about priests among the hebrews since death prevented them from continuing in office but because jesus lives forever he has a permanent priesthood therefore he is able to save completely those who come to god through him because he always lives to intercede for them hebrews hebrews is also full of areas talking about jesus being our mediator rather than any other man joe fisher the people before jesus didn t have jesus right may not be as obvious as you think in what sense to you mean didn t have christian thought has generally said that they had jesus in the sense that they were saved by his death god is not bound by our chronology so in some real spiritual sense they did have jesus even in terms of knowledge while they surely didn t have the explicit knowledge that we have christians have normally seen messianic prophecy as knowledge of jesus even if knowledge from afar clh
