I strongly believe that yes Jesus existed, however, I see him only as a messenger of God. Can someone explain why when you walk in a Christian church you hear, "Praise Jesus" "Blessed Jesus" "Jesus will save you" and you hear little mention of God. Who do Christians really worship?
2006-09-29 16:47:52 · 29 answers · asked by miz_lady_beth2002 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
PaulCyp ... i'm not trying to offend anyone just asking a question... and a messenger of God is not an ordinary person.
2006-09-29 17:18:36 · update #1
Alright you all seem to agree that God has taken on three forms, "trinity". I think God, can do all things. Moreover, he only needs to say be and it is. So why would he need to take a human form? Why would he chose to be born of a woman?
2006-09-29 17:21:04 · update #2
Not all Christians believe or teach that Jesus is God.
Please read:
rs p. 405 pars. 1-2 Trinity ***
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
*** rs p. 406 par. 1 Trinity ***
In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
(Romans 15:4-6) . . .” 4 For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction, that through our endurance and through the comfort from the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2006-10-02 05:52:23 · answer #1 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have landed four square in one of the most touchy points of contention in Christianity, and what you believe will send you down one road and lead you away from the other, of course, redemption is almost always their in a pinch.
The more Fundamentalist believers and many of the middle road types believe that Christ was a God, or the Son of God, or another God, but they believe that no matter what, Jesus is a God.
The other side believes that Jesus was a man, until he was on the cross when he was reborn into a new reality of being a God and knowing the truth of God.
These two different views are really crucial for understanding the split between what is called liberals and conservative in the Church.
When you are a conservative you interrupt the Bible and the story of Jesus in a particular way, but it is a stricter way and not left to interpretation at least in theory. They believe that they must interrupt the Bible literally or that is what they say.
However, the liberals interrupt the Bible as metaphoric, for a story of Jesus who was a human being and believes he is the Son or God up until his Crucifixion during which he transforms or is reborn into the world of faith, the world of the spirit. Faith is a form of knowing, and we know just enough to accept that we can never know it all but we have faith that tells us that it all works out, no matter how terrible, in the long run it works out.
In Reality that is enough to live and learn.
2006-09-30 00:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is the belief that God took on mortal flesh and dwelt among us. Walked more than a mile in our shoes. The same God who spoke with Moses is the same God who walked the earth 2,000 years ago and is the same God that dwells in His people in this last hour.
Not three (trinity) persons in one; but "One God" in three dispensations, three expressions, three offices or three manifestations.
The people you hear may be worshiping a feeling which is present when the name of Jesus is held up. Not all those who say Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom.
I worship a man named Jesus. As he was for the Apostle Thomas so He is for me - My Lord and my God.
2006-09-30 00:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. They are all the same and Yes, Christians believe Jesus is God. They believe that Jesus and God are one in the same. Man cannot look upon the face of God. Jesus is the form God took when he walked upon earth.
2006-09-29 23:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by Judge Roy Bean 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is part of the Trinity God, the father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit. Yes Jesus is God that come down as man to suffer the penalty for our sins on the cross
2006-09-29 23:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by micheal777 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In John 10:30 Jesus says "I and my Father are one" He is claiming to be one with God. Thus, Christians believe Jesus is God. What God is, is a Trinity -- three persons but all one God.
God is the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
1 John 5:8 "For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one."
(Symbolic of the Holy Spirit, Father, and Jesus)
2006-09-29 23:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by openheaven 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So you think of Jesus as just an ordinary guy who loved God, raised the dead, healed lepers, cripples and the blind by a touch or a command, walked on the ocean, quieted a storm by His command, fed 5,000 people with one plateful of food, changed water into wine by an act of His will, claimed to have been alive before Abraham, claimed to have seen the Father, forgave peoples' sins, said He would come back to life after three days, and then did so. Is that about right? Just an ordinary guy.
2006-09-30 00:04:10 · answer #7 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity worships God as having been revealed to be three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We refer to this as the Trinity. All one God. Thus it is appropriate to praise Jesus, Praise the Father and praise the Holy Spirit. (If you visit enough churches, you will encounter this, not just Jesus). St Patrick is said to explain the Trinity by comparing it to a Shamrock. One leaf, but three leaflets. It's just a visual.
2006-09-29 23:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is God. Christians believe in God as a Trinity. God the Father, the inspired the Word (Bible/laws) creator of all , fully God, God the Son, the word made flesh, fully human, fully divine, Messiah and King, fully God, God the Holy Spirit, counselor and comforter, eternal life in us, fully God.
2006-09-29 23:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we believe in the Trinity, which is one God but three essences. it is very confusing, and even Christians (including myself) do not even fully understand it. sometimes certain churches have more of an emphasis on one branch of the Trinity (God the Father, Jesus the Son, or the Holy Spirit). Christians worship a triune God, who is one God of three essences. hope this helps!
2006-09-29 23:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by truth seeker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋