If your best friend was being arrested and you knew he was the son of God then would you deny knowing him ?
My leaning is towards the idea that at the time he didn't know he was the son of God. Thoughts ?
2006-08-14 15:47:11 · 23 answers · asked by yepwellmaybe 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(Yeah I know son of code...my bad...I can't type).
2006-08-14 15:59:42 · update #1
I get the idea he was probably scared but ... sorry to say this ... even terrorists have better followers than that.
2006-08-14 16:01:00 · update #2
Would I die for Clinton or Bush ? No.
Would I die for my children ? Yes.
Would I die for someone I thought to the be the son of God ? Yes.
Thats why I am starting to doubt that He was.
I am beginning to think Peter manipulated the truth perhaps to makeup for his own failings and guilt.
2006-08-14 16:06:48 · update #3
Code? Peter denied Jesus because that was what Jesus prophsied he would do. It was not what Peter knew or thought. Once the word of God is spoken your course is set.
God knows the beginning from the end. As Will S. noted, all life is a stage and we are just players who strut out our bit. God wrote the book and put Peter in the book before it was ever set down on paper.
If you know the story, Peter knew that Jesus was Messiah (Christ) when he got off the boat to follow Him. What he and others were looking for was a physical kingdom. The question was not was He the Son of God but who and what is the Son of God? And how many people know to this day who He is and what He is about?
Peter, although a follower, was still not converted. For until Jesus returned to glory He could not manifest as the Holy Spirit. Peter had literally no way of understanding until the spirit of truth was abiding in him and not standing before him in a flesh body.
He denied Him because that was a part of God's plan. The potter giving shape to the clay as He sees fit. The great gardener who planted the visible universe to bring forth all things in their season.
Looking with the rational mind is just one facit of the diamond. Looking at it as predestinated is yet another facit. Seeing it as an unfolding, as a book, where your name was written before a star was ever formed. Seeing it as spiritual soup that we all are stewing in; seeing it as the battle between the children of light and the children of darkness; seeing it as God expressing Himself as a saviour, redeemer and friend; as a father, as one who is closer than a brother..... However many ways you look at it, there still remains the fact that His ways are above ours.
Seeing it by the gift of revelation, by the eyes of faith, through the eyes of a child......
Don't just depend on your rational mind. It cannot begin to come close to the understanding of what really took place that night and what is taking place right now.
2006-08-14 16:59:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the time the Holy Spirit that fled from the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve when they sinned against God had not returned to mankind or earth. The Holy Spirit would come only after Jesus ascended to the Father.
Once the Holy Spirit had descended ALL of the Apostles and Christians were fearless in their pursuit to spread the Gospel. They needed the Spirit to dwell within them and guide them. Alone they could do nothing. The same is true for us.
2006-08-14 22:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my understanding it was the will of God that Peter should deny Jesus three times and nobody can even think let alone act in a way different from what God has decided.Everything happens according to the will God
2006-08-14 22:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by rama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter did know that Jesus was the Son of the Living God, the Messiah. Yet, what Peter did not know about Jesus' redemptive mission and what it truly meant to be the Messiah, Son of the Living God, was that it would involve crucifixion and death. This did not jibe with Peter's notion of Messiahship. To him and all the disciples, the messiah was not to die, but defeat the Romans and reinstitute a theodicy. Jesus, in their expectations, was to be a successful warrior and ruler.
However, once it became apparent to Peter that this was who the Messiah truly is and is to do, it shattered his vision of the Messiah. And what complicated the matter for him even more was that not only Jesus spoke of His suffering and death before arriving to Jerusalem, but that all the disciples were to share in this messianic mission in the same way. The disciples were to were to suffer and die as well. Hence, the meaning of Jesus words to James and John before all the apostles, "The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized."
Once Peter saw this happening right before his eyes, he became afraid and did not want to follow. And so, he denied Christ as a suffering savior. He did not deny Jesus as the Son of God, but denied that the Son of God must die. That did not fit in his vision of God. Yet, He later did understand the suffering savior and become as loving and corageous as Jesus, for he himself and was crucified outside of Rome. And so, Peter was a faithful disciple and followed Christ.
May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Fr. john
2006-08-14 23:11:25 · answer #4 · answered by som 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Son of code? Not sure what that means...but he denied Jesus because anyone associated with Jesus would have been killed, also. He was trying to save his own neck, that's why he denied Jesus. Peter knew very well that Jesus was the son of God, he knew Jesus was the Messiah. He simply had a moment of weakness and after he denied Him, he knew what he had done and regretted it.
2006-08-14 22:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by mycathisses 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peter denied Jesus to save his own life. He knew Jesus was the son of God, but his survival instinct was stronger than his sense of duty I guess.
2006-08-14 22:53:22 · answer #6 · answered by GAgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter was human,
Lets say you were really close friends of either Clinton or Bush.
But you were in Iran and some Iranian army dude was gonna cut
your head off if you said yes when asked if you were a friend of
either president. WOULD YOU?
2006-08-14 22:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Jesus knew he was the Son of God before that.
He even predicted that his desiples would deny and deserat him rather than face the roman justice system also the Rabbical justice system. So they denied that they knew him.
2006-08-14 22:57:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
peter was trying to save himslef. we see this even today. Christians, fully believing that Jesus is the son of God, will deny him to save themselves.
but thank god there are those few who would even die for his name! martyrs rock!
2006-08-14 22:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Chris K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was until PENTECOST (when the holy spirit entered the apostles) that they knew that Jesus was the son of god> like all humans, they became scared, i'm afraid all christians would do the same, we must pray for courage in hard times>
2006-08-14 22:53:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋