Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.Who,. being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Phil,2:5-6 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. MK13:32 There are alot of seemingly contradicting verses like these that seem to say that Jesus is both equal and unequal with God. Is it one or the other or can it be both?
2006-08-07 04:50:05 · 49 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The 3 in 1 god. "Father, son and holy sprit (used to be holy ghost)"
The Trinity god. All parts equal but seperate while being at the same time one.
I didn't make this up! Crazy!
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2006-08-07 04:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by Dick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is but one God.
There can be but one God, because God, being supreme and infinite, cannot have an equal.
In God there are three Divine Persons, really distinct, and equal in all things-the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
The Father is God and the first Person of the Blessed Trinity.
The Son is God and the second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
The Holy Ghost is God and the third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
The Blessed Trinity is one God in three Divine Persons.
The three Divine Persons are one and the same God, having one and the same Divine nature.
2006-08-07 05:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by The Flashman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trinity is one what, and three whos. Much like I am a person, but as a person I have many relations to different people. I am a father, a husband, and even a son. People do not question your name based on your relationship to someone else. For example...That cant be Tommy, everyone I know calls him son. Jesus is in fact equal with God in that respect as They are the same person. In Jesus' humanity though He was unequal to God, having to experience the same temptations and suffering that we suffer from.
2006-08-07 05:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by brokentogether 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different religions, different interpretations. Some Christians hold that Jesus is God's son; some Christians hold that God and Jesus (and the Holy Spirit) are One; some Christians (LDS) believe that Jesus is Jehovah of the Old Testament and that His Father is God the Father, so 2 different gods there; some Christians (Gnostics) believe that God of the Old and New Testaments is really a demigod, an angry, jealous god that is in no way the true God the Father that Jesus spoke of. Take your pick.
2006-08-07 04:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humm..you asked your Pastor and got an answer and then came in here to ask all us Layman what we think?
In the beginning there was God. He decided to create our planet and all the creatures. Man was His most beloved creation and He wanted to be loved by Man so He gave Man the ability to choose to be obediant or not. We chose poorly.
God sent His Son (that He named Jesus) to be born of a woman so that He could teach new laws to all the people and that one message was to love each other, care for each other.
When Jesus died for us, God sent His Holy Spirit to our World to continue teaching us how to continue loving each other. When we pray, the Holy Spirit shares those prayers.
That is what scholars ended up calling the Holy Trinity. God has always been the Head and being all powerful, he could give us His different personalities to help us.
2006-08-07 05:07:32 · answer #5 · answered by Kay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are separate beings. Both are gods. Jesus does the will of His Father, so the Father is preeminent. Jesus has also told us that we can ultimately inherit "all that the father has." Which leads to some interesting logical conclusions. When a child grows up and inherits all that his parent has...he is very much like his parent. Jesus is teaching a doctrine that most Christians have not quite grasped.
Check it out. www.lds.org
2006-08-07 04:59:33 · answer #6 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that your understanding is a little off.
First, Jesus WAS God prior to His incarnation. (Jn 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word. The Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God" (Vs 17: "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father")
Second, since God created man in His own image, as miniature, finite duplicate copies of God, we can look at the make up of man to get a glimpse as to the makeup of God. Man is a tri-une being - body, soul, and spirit. All 3 make up the individual, and you can say that each one is you. But you can not say that they are all the same. The body is NOT the soul, nor is the spirit the body, etc. In the same way, God is tri-une, and He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit (we ARE made in His image, after all).
Third, you need to understand from what you quoted above from Phil, that Jesus did not remain diety when he took on a human form. He was NOT God disguised as a man, but he became fully man.
What ever else you say about Jesus, there are 4 boundaries you can not cross and remain Scripturally accurate:
1. He is fully God - you can not say He is less than God.
2. He is fully man - you can not say He is less than or other than man.
3. He is not a new breed - a new kind of mixture of being - He was fully God and fully man.
4. You can not say He is OTHER than God or OTHER than man.
(I may have messed up on some of these items, in which case I apologize).
The point is that Jesus WAS co-equal with God prior to His incarnation, but on coming to earth, He was as much dependent on the Father as anybody else who ever lived.
Throughout the Scriptures, you see Him sometimes acting in His roll as diety (such as when He forgave sinners), and other times in his humanity, such as when he was tired and fell asleep in the boat, or when he was hungry, etc.)
2006-08-07 05:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus and God are not two different people. Jesus is a part of God that was sent to earth and the Holy Spirit is the part of God that is always on earth. It's called the trinity, it means there are three parts to God.
2006-08-07 04:55:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is like 3 "personalities" in one. The father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. It is a hard concept, but is true. But God is one.
2006-08-07 04:54:22 · answer #9 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why Jesus alone?
Every living being - not just humans - is equal to God. There is God in everyone of us - that is what the highest Hindu philosophy "ADHWAITHA" preaches. Means No Duality between God and Soul (Dwaitha means Duality and the prefix "Ad" stands for "no")
2006-08-07 04:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by bagsprosh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋