... What are you talking about. Jesus is the New Covenant. The final sacrifice God required. All of humanity is not saved through faith in God, all of humanity is saved through faith that JESUS CHRIST was SENT by God to DIE for you. Because he lived a perfect sinless life, we can be forgiven of our sins, and are no longer bound by the laws of sin or death, and can have everlasting life. God gave him, and him alone the authority to forgive all men and women of their sins (except for blasphemy against the holy spirit). Period. Of course you pray to the father, and of course you are supposed to be Christ-like. But without faith in Jesus , all of your praying is for naught, because HE is the only MAN that ever lived that never sinned, EVER, and that God gave the power to forgive sins, and God wants you to believe on HIS SON.

If God wanted you to just pray to him, and forget about Jesus, he wouldn't have sent him. He already sent a bunch of prophets and angels and other messengers to preach repentance and to worship God, but he STILL had to send Jesus, because only Jesus was able to make it through the satanic labyrinth that had become of hte world and not sin ONCE.