How can Jesus be God on earth when he prayed to God in the garden of Gesimethe and he said that he could do no

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t do anything on his own?

Answer 1

This is a difficult question because the Trinity is a difficult concept to grasp. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all one, yet they have different functions. It can be explained like one person with three jobs - husband, father, employee. Maybe like, say, you as an employee should first listen to your position as a husband. If something your boss wants you to do is not going to be good for your wife, you won't do it. The whole time Jesus, the Son, was on earth, He prayed to the God the Father. One reason He prayed was for an example for us. We are supposed to be like Christ Jesus; and part of that is praying to the Father, as He did. And, like Him, we should show our obedience to the will of the Father, as He did in Gethsemane. So part of it was as an example for us. He knew what He had to do, but He was asking the Father if there was any other way to accomplish it. In a way, talking to Himself. But the Father is the part of the Trinity that He was answerable to, and He was obedient to Him. He could do nothing without the consent of the Father. Therefore, He gave Himself to pay for our sins so that we can have forgiveness and eternal life if we accept it. Again, a hard concept to grasp. That's where faith comes in.

God Bless

Answer 2

God is like a One Man Show.
He played ALL the Roles in the Holy Bible.
He was God as the Creator,
God as Melchisedek who had no father or mother,
He was God in Moses when Moses
parted the Red Sea.
He was masked in Jesus in the Garden
of Gethsemane.
God even masked Himself as His Own Son.
Jesus said "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father"
Why? Because they were one and the same.

It's just like an actor that plays many roles.
God just played the role of Jesus Christ.

I know it's hard to understand but God can do anything
and if He says in His Word that there is only One God
then we have to believe that He came to the earth to fulfill the role of Savior.
And when Jesus prayed to the "Father" He was praying to the Role of the "Father" even while He was playing the Role of the Son.

Answer 3

Great question!

"Christ says, "The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father." Was Christ within God, or God within Christ? No, in the name of God! On the contrary, this is an intellectual state which is expressed in a sensible figure."

"But the proceeding through manifestation (if by this is meant the divine appearance, and not division into parts), we have said, is the proceeding and the appearance of the Holy Spirit and the Word, which is from God. As it is said in the Gospel of John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God"; (John 1:1) then the Holy Spirit and the Word are the appearance of God. The Spirit and the Word mean the divine perfections that appeared in the Reality of Christ, and these perfections were with God; so the sun manifests all its glory in the mirror. For the Word does not signify the body of Christ, no, but the divine perfections manifested in Him. For Christ was like a clear mirror which was facing the Sun of Reality; and the perfections of the Sun of Reality--that is to say, its light and heat--were visible and apparent in this mirror. If we look into the mirror, we see the sun, and we say, "It is the sun." Therefore, the Word and the Holy Spirit, which signify the perfectons of God, are the divine appearance. This is the meaning of the verse in the Gospel which says: "The Word was with God, and the Word was God"; for the divine perfections are not different from the Essence of Oneness. The perfections of Christ are called the Word because all the beings are in the condition of letters, and one letter has not a complete meaning, while the perfections of Christ have the power of the word because a complete meaning can be inferred from a word. As the Reality of Christ was the manifestation of the divine perfections, therefore, it was like the word. Why? because He is the sum of perfect meanings. This is why He is called the Word.

And know that the proceeding of the Word and the Holy Spirit from God, which is the proceeding and appearance of manifestation, must not be understood to mean that the Reality of Divinity has been divided into parts, or multiplied, or that it had descended from the exaltation of holiness and purity. God forbid! If a pure, fine mirror faces the sun, the light and heat, the form and the image of the sun will be resplendent in it with such manifetation that if a beholder says of the sun, which is brilliant and visible in the mirror, "This is the sun," it is true. Nevertheless, the mirror is the mirror, and the sun is the sun. The One Sun, even if it appears in numerous mirrors, is one. This state is neither abiding nor entering, neither commingling nor descending; for entering, abiding, descending, issuing forth and commingling are the necessities and characteristis of bodies, not of spirits; then how much less do they belong to the sanctified and pure Reality of God. God is exempt from all that is not in accordance with His purity and His exalted and sublime sanctity.

The Sun of Reality, as we have said, has always been in one condition; it has no change, no alteration, no transformation and no vicissitude. It is eternal and everlasting. But the Holy Reality of the Word of God is in the condition of the pure fine and shining mirror; the heat, the light, the image and likeness--that is to say, the perfectons of the Sun of Reality--appear in it. That is why Christ says in the Gospel, "The Father is in the Son"--that is to say, the Sun of Reality appears in the mirror. (John 14:11; 17:21) Praise be to the One Who shone upon this Holy Reality, Who is sanctified among the beings!"

Answer 4

That is Because Jesus Is, God's Son. Here's proof
“I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3 Why would Jesus be ahead of himself?

“Of that day or that hour no ones knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32 Why would he say only the father if he was the father? He said he himself did not know only the Father.

Answer 5

If I understand your Q correctly, perhaps these metapors will help: The Holy Trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost) is like an egg. An egg also has three parts, the yolk, the white and the shell. Each part is egg but not complete. One doesn't exist without the other (of course unles you separate them).

My husband also said you can compare the Trinity to water in three forms: liquid, ice and vapor. Each has distinct properties and can do different things but is no less water than the other two.

I like the second metaphor best.

Answer 6

This is a Trinity question...

Jesus took a subordinate role while he was on earth (while being in Essense equal with God the Father).

Here is a brief synopsis of the Trinity:

There is only ONE God. He manifests himself in three personas/persons/manifestations for the purposes of the redemption of, and relationship with, human beings.

Contrary to what some people say, there is nothing irrational or illogical about this concept (of the Trinity).

For an explanation (and defense) of the doctrine of the Trinity, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/sect/doc/trinity.html

Cordially,
John

Answer 7

Christians must do mental gymnastics to explain how Jesus, who was supposed to be God, never actually said, "I am God." He prayed to God, he said he had a God, he said that God had forsaken him, and he called himself "son of man" on many occasions. Now, if he was God, this means that God came to Earth as himself, sacrificed himself to himself to save humanity from his own wrath, prayed to himself, said that he had a God (meaning someone higher than himself), forsook himself on the cross, and called himself a mere "son of man." Now, that means he called himself a worm, since Job 25:6 says that the son of man is a worm. Num. 23:19 says that God is neither a man nor the son of man, so how could he come to earth as a man and call himself a son of man, thus breaking his own rules? This is why I gave up Christianity. It simply does not make sense and people who say it does are expecting me to believe the impossible and the contradictory.

Answer 8

Jesus came as a human and in His humanness could do nothing of Himself. Have you never heard of God-the Father, God-the son and God the Holy Spirit??

Answer 9

Jesus taught us how to pray.
Key is 1 Timothy 2:5 -
There is ONE mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.

Even Jesus followed God's will. He sought Him for guidance since Jesus gave up His heavenly royalty to come to earth.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ is not God he is the son of God Almighty. you can not pray to yourself. when he was dying, he said Father it is done. so he was not talking to himself. also when he came up from the water after he was baptized, Jehovah said this is my son the beloved, so Jesus is not God Almighty. www.watchtower.org. Jehovah and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and three different. Jehovah the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit is Jehovah's Holy Spirit.. they are not a trinity