Doesn't make sense you'll pray to yourself for stuff you already know, unless maybe the whole trinity is incorrect? I wonder.
2006-10-14 17:29:55 · 20 answers · asked by Alucard 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow! ... FINALLY somebody is using common sense!
if you look through the whole Bible you will not even find the word "trinity".
Jesus said that his father was higher than him, so i guess that makes it clear, they are 2 different persons.
and... the holy spirit is not a person, is God's creative and active force.
2006-10-14 17:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by lost in space 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus Is the Second Person Of The Blessed Trinity. He Prayed To the Father, the First Person Of The Blessed Trinity.
2006-10-15 00:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1. The Trinity is NOT "One"; the Trinity is "THREE" -- try the English language.
2. There is ONE God, Who has revealed Himself as three "persons".
3. Jesus, Who came from Heaven's Glory, became Incarnate and dwelt here on Earth, felt the strong need for fellowship and communion with his Heavenly Father ... and to show as an example to His disciples.
4. Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, was NOT praying to Himself when He was praying to His Father, the first person of the Trinity.
5. Three Persons of the Trinity, within the Oneness of the Godhead. They were one of essence, purpose, intent, eternity, etc. Our minds are finite; we can not fully understand the infinite. That is why God revealed it to us.
6. No, the "whole trinity is " NOT "incorrect". It is fallible finite human beings who reject what they with their finite minds are not able to fully comprehend. Is there anything else that finite human minds are unable to comprehend? I think many things.
2006-10-15 00:43:34 · answer #3 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The trinity is one, but consists of three DIFFERENT parts, God, Jesus, and the holy ghost. Jesus was a man of flesh, just like us. He was concieved through a woman and born into this sinful world. He had to pray because he was flesh, even though God's holy spirit dwelled within him. God used him to save us from sin, that's the important thing. Jesus had to pray to God to forgive us.
2006-10-15 00:39:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your religion whether or not you believe in the trinity. I'm LDS and we believe that the Godhead (God the Father, Jesus Chris, and the Holy Spirit) are three distinctand seperate personages who are united in purpose. He prayed because prayer is an act of faith, and although Christ had a greater knowledge of His father's purpose, He had to have faith in God's plan, as well as communicating to him.
And I agree with one of the above answers, He was also teaching by example.
2006-10-15 00:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by Whitney Ann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was man and God, and so he was in some ways "limited" by the flesh. Since he was temptable--as flesh is--he prayed to his Father to fortify him against temptation.
Jesus was not "modeling" while praying in the garden at Gethsemane, before he was arrested to be crucified. He was praying because he was afraid of what was to come--the pain, humiliation, scourging, and taking on the sins of humanity, which would mean that God the Father, for a moment, would turn his back on his Son in order to judge the sins of the world.
That is, Jesus was in the flesh, and he had the potential to fail. Ultimately he did not fail, because--among other reasons--he sought his Father's will and his Father's strength. Because Jesus was in the flesh, part of him was "split off" from his Father, and so he prayed to his Father for strength to overcome that which the flesh is tempted by.
2006-10-15 00:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hope I don't regret answering this.
I am part of a family we are "The Carters" we are one family. If any member is missing we would not be the carters. I speak with my wife and I speak with my children every day.
Here is one place in the Bible where the trinity idea is real clear or at least more then one.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
May GOD richly bless you
2006-10-15 00:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A few possibilities:
1) Jesus was setting an example for us.
2) The Son was praying to the Father.
The Son is not the Father, so Jesus wouldn't have been praying to himself had he been praying to the Father.
2006-10-15 00:34:19 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus did a lot of things so that we might believe in him that he really didn't need to do such as praying out loud to the Father before calling Lazarus from the tomb.
[John 11:41] So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me.
[John 11:42] I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
[John 11:43] And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
2006-10-15 00:37:45 · answer #9 · answered by Robert L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinity was invented by pagans converting themselves to believers of Christ but cannot escape the mythological existence of Mithra and other Roman gods and godesses. There is only One God, a reason why Jesus still has to pray and acknowledge that what will happen to him is the will of the father that he has to accept.
2006-10-15 00:37:28 · answer #10 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Early form of multipal personality disorder perhaps?Had to confer with the half of himself that only came out on occasion. History is full of people with all sorts of disorders, regardless if they did good things, like Jesus, or evil like NEro.
2006-10-15 00:41:34 · answer #11 · answered by mother_of_bonehead 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋