[Ali Imran]

Now, the sticking point. Since you reject His deity, you must have felt He shouldn't be prayed to and worshipped. I'm afraid you didn't read scriptures in their entirety. In response to the above passages, His disciples not only prayed n Jesus' name (1Cor 5:4), but prayed to Christ (Acts 7:59). Jesus certainly intended that His name be invoked both before God and as God in prayer.

Yes, it is clear to me that you pray to Jesus but as I've said, it wasn't Jesus who taught you to do that. When asked how to pray, Jesus taught people to pray directly to the Father. So, showing me what people did in Acts is not the same as showing me Jesus's teachings.