Was he talking to himself? Thinking out loud perhaps?
2006-09-29 08:01:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is me with whom I am most pleased.
2006-09-29 08:01:22 · update #1
I'm guessing he's off his meds....why else would a god say that he is "a jealous god" and demand that there be no other gods before him, then turn around and say that he's the one true god and that all others are false gods?
Isn't it psychotic to be jealous of imaginary beings?
2006-09-29 08:04:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When I was in College and an officer of Student Catholic Action, I asked the same question to our chaplain a Columban Priest. His answer to me was this . "You are now still single and are one person. Soon you will get married and you will be called a "husband". so you have now two personalities in you. As a person and as a husband. Then you bore a child. So, you become a father. So now, you are three in one ...first as a person, then as a husband and then as a father. Now there is something that binds the three of you and that is the spirit of Love between each one of you.
God was just God when Jesus was not yet there and when Jesus came out then He becomes the Father and the Love between them that is shown to the world becomes the Holy spirit."
Though I was impressed, I did not actually believe it because I knew then that God in the Old Testament had always emphatically said that He is alone and there is no One before Him and No one besides Him and no One after Him.
Constantinople who declared that believing in Christ will be the official religious practice of Rome due to its increasing population affecting their citizens. He was still a Roman Pagan who was very much influenced by mythology insisted on the Trinity, the Virgin birth and blood offerings because that is how Roman Gods and Godesses are known as a form of supernatural beings who can come down to earth and take human forms and make mortal children with immortal bloods.
You were asking if He is talking to Himself? Maybe, just the way you talk to yourself sometimes answering your own questions. That is normal for anyone who is in quest for other people who may agree with your own reasoning.
2006-09-29 08:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lord Jesus Christ is the son of God and the promised Messiah and 'branch' of the old testomony. it quite is a church fallacy which has been perpetuated because of the fact the Council of Nicea, various hundred years after the Scriptures have been carried out. in case you look at what's asserted as the Apostles Creed the 'trinity' isn't there and those doctrines are derived from what the Apostles taught. yet men are in no way content cloth with what the inspired be conscious tells them so they extra a million John 5:7. This became "extra via a Latin pupil of low acceptance." This verse is now not in the main efficient physique of textual content cloth in contemporary Bibles.
2016-10-18 05:10:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 3 in 1 aspect of the Holy Trinity deons't mean that God is talking to HImself. Jesus, God and The Holy Spirit are equal in the sense that they make up the Trinity. You CAn say that God is talking to God, because Jesus is God, but if you're talking about God the Father talking back to God the Father, that's not how it happens. God is the Creator, Jesus is the Saciour, and the Holy Spirit is the protector.
2006-09-29 08:27:02 · answer #4 · answered by Sofa P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are right, the Trinity means that they are three individuals but they work in union with each other for the salvation of man kind.
Father:
God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation. He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. The qualities and powers exhibited in the Son and the Holy Spirit are also revelations of the Father. (Gen. 1:1; Rev. 4:11; 1 Cor. 15:28; John 3:16; 1 John 4:8; 1 Tim. 1:17; Ex. 34:6, 7; John 14:9.)
Son:
God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. Forever truly God, He became also truly man, Jesus the Christ. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived and experienced temptation as a human being, but perfectly exemplified the righteousness and love of God. By His miracles He manifested God's power and was attested as God's promised Messiah. He suffered and died voluntarily on the cross for our sins and in our place, was raised from the dead, and ascended to minister in the heavenly sanctuary in our behalf. He will come again in glory for the final deliverance of His people and the restoration of all things. (John 1:1-3, 14; Col. 1:15-19; John 10:30; 14:9; Rom. 6:23; 2 Cor. 5:17-19; John 5:22; Luke 1:35; Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 2:9-18; 1 Cor. 15:3, 4; Heb. 8:1, 2; John 14:1-3.)
Holy Spirit:
God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and the Son in Creation, incarnation, and redemption. He inspired the writers of Scripture. He filled Christ's life with power. He draws and convicts human beings; and those who respond He renews and transforms into the image of God. Sent by the Father and the Son to be always with His children, He extends spiritual gifts to the church, empowers it to bear witness to Christ, and in harmony with the Scriptures leads it into all truth. (Gen. 1:1, 2; Luke 1:35; 4:18; Acts 10:38; 2 Peter 1:21; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:11, 12; Acts 1:8; John 14:16-18, 26; 15:26, 27; 16:7-13.)
2006-09-29 08:04:50 · answer #5 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why I can’t believe in the royal we, idea to Genesis 1:26 and 3:22,
If Jehovah talked with the royal we or us, etc, why did He only do it only 4-5 times.
Why didn’t He or doesn’t He continue to do to so through out the bible.
Why didn’t He use the royal we at Gen. 1:29, 30 only 3 verses later, or Gen. 2:18, Gen. 3:11, 15
and through out the rest of the bible? Why at Isa. 6:8, does Jehovah say “Whom shall I send”?
Job 38:4-7 shows that the angels were existing at the creation of man, so Jehovah wasn’t alone and had many spirit creatures to talk to.
Instead, which sounds more real and truthful, that Jehovah was talking to someone who is His Master Worker, His Firstborn Son, His Faithful Witness, who is His image, His exact representation, OR He was talking to Himself. (Prov. 8:30; Heb. 1:3; Col 1:15)
Bible scholar Donald E. Gowan said “There is no support in the O[ld] T[estament] for most of the proposed explanations: the royal ‘we,’ the deliberative ‘we,’ the plural of fullness, or an indication of a plurality of persons in the Godhead.
Why does the word Elohim according to Strong’s Cyclopaedia, when it applies to Jehovah means Supreme God, not Gods? Even when this word is applied to Moses (Ex. 4:16 & 7:1) it doesn’t mean that there are 3 Moses, it doesn’t even mean there are 2 Moses.
(Side point when Jesus said if you see me you see the Father, it is because he is the image of God, the exact representation of his Father. When you see an image in a mirror you are seeing a representation, not the actual person. Col 1:15)
(Side point, According to my college dictionary, begotten means “to be born”, to be born means “brought into life or being” when was Jesus brought into life, when he came to life as a baby? No, as Jehovah’s Firstborn of creation Col. 1:15; Rev 3:14)
2006-09-29 11:22:47 · answer #6 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ice, water, steam...the same but with different responsibilities...
Trinity:
God (Father figure or Godhead)
Jesus (Son-also God, left Heaven, came to earth to die for our sins)
Holy Spirit (The Spirit of God/Jesus) Counselor, helper...
Although the term is not in the Holy Bible, it is in the dictionary.
Nope, not talking to Himself...He was talking with His Father.
You don't understand if you are not born again...open your heart...accept Jesus into your heart, repent your sins...and you too can have eternal life.
It's your decision. What path will you take?
2006-09-29 08:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity is not mentioned explictly in the Bible. It wasn't even invented until the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD or about 300 years after Jesus died. It is a figment of the Church's imagination. But, of course, so are a lot of other things.
2006-09-29 08:04:40 · answer #8 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The trinity is not a christian original, instead it was copied from other (pagan) cultures, so maybe they just adapted it and then got confused about it?
I know they adopted many pagan traditions, probably to attract the believers to the new religion, to make them feel more comfortable. And maybe the trinity was a part of that.
2006-09-29 08:05:15 · answer #9 · answered by albgardis T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible says when a man is married to a woman they become one. Jesus prayed for the unity of the family of God. I think If two people are in total agreement on something they are one on the issue. We are in the world but not of the world, because our beliefs and practices seperate us from the world. Perhaps it was a way of expressing unity between Him and God. He was a perfect messenger because their goals, thoughts, and feelings are such a complete match. When you see Me, you see the Father who sent me.
2006-09-29 08:17:00 · answer #10 · answered by RM 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
3 in persons 1 in essense, the athanasian trinity
Since Jesus is a differeint in person than the Father He can pray to the father
You are refering to something Chrstians largely rejected, the Sybellliabn trinity, one God who wears 3 hats but is really the same person
2006-09-29 08:05:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋