When he prayed to 'his father' was he talking to himself?
2006-09-25 11:19:29 · 10 answers · asked by Tofu Jesus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What if Jesus didn't pray?
Did he that had never sinned need to be baptized?
He was our example.
Read these scriptures, it says clearly that Jesus is God!
2 Cor. 5:19 To wit. God was in Christ, reconciling the world back to himself
Col: 2:9 For in him dwelleth all of the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
It helps to look at it this way; Jesus was both God and man.
Go back and reread the gospels.
When he spoke or did things, he either did it as God, or as a man.
For example: As a man, Jesus wept when Lazarus died, but as God , he commanded him to rise from the dead.
As a man, he felt hunger, but as God, he made enough food from a few loaves and fishes to feed thousands.
Jesus said himself: Before Abraham was; I AM (John 8:58)
Compare that to Exodus 3:14
2006-09-25 11:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by Acts 2 38 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could He not be God, if His Father was God? Not in the general sense that we are all God's children, but in the specific sense that it was God who made the mother of Jesus pregnant. If the mother of Jesus was human, then her offspring must have been human as well. If the Father of Jesus was divine, then His offspring must likewise have been divine.
No, Jesus was not praying to Himself when He prayed to God because God exists as three separate and distinct Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2006-09-25 18:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by barbara m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's first discuss the nature of God in Christianity. There is is one God, but three Persons. So when Jesus prayed to "his father", it was from one person to the other. This is known as the Trinitarian Mystery. A simple concept, but yet blows the human mind away the more you think about it.
2006-09-25 18:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Since God consists of three divine persons in one, true God, he was, in a way, talking to himself.
2006-09-26 04:13:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He Isn't.
Hell, he didnt even call himself the physical 'Son of God', Every Christian at the time called themselves a 'Son of God'..itsm ore mistranslation and interpretation.
2006-09-25 18:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John:14:9 He who has seen me has seen the Father.I AM-Jesus, I AM-God as the burning bush.
2006-09-25 18:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by sonoftheKing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The forms are different but the spirit is the same. Father,son,holy spirit.
2006-09-25 18:31:14 · answer #7 · answered by silverman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Friend Tofu Jesus,
Haven't you ever made mental notes to yourself? I do it all the time.
2006-09-25 18:23:55 · answer #8 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well don't worry that you don't get it. I don't either, no one can. Thats why God is God, and we aren't. If we understood every amazing aspect of God's character He wouldn't be God.
2006-09-25 19:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2006-09-25 18:24:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋