I have asked this question, and suprisingly I get so many conflicting answers from people of the same faith. So If your faith is so just and solid. Why is it that you cant even agree on this simple question? Just wondering
2006-11-09 04:32:53 · 16 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love it. They can't even agree with people of their own kin; everyone believes that his/her path is the ONLY one. It's funny that they are all so conflicting.
2006-11-09 04:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because it's a rather difficult concept to grasp. Christianity as a whole is very diverse. Different parts focus more on certain parts of the Bible than others. Humans have gotten in the way of the pure Word. It causes problems.
The idea of the Trinity and Jesus' status are always going to be a little beyond our tiny brains' ability to comprehend. God is 3 beings, yet 1 God and Jesus was 100% man and 100% God. The math doesn't compute. In order for Him to be an acceptable sacrifice for our sins, He had to be completely human, or it wouldn't count. But He also was 100% God - come to earth to be the perfect spotless lamb. The closest picture I can see to this is Clark Kent and Superman, yet he was only 2 people, and never both at the same time .
If we could totally understand everything about Him, would He really be God? I don't want a God small enough for me to comprehend.
2006-11-09 12:41:21 · answer #2 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
None of the above. There is no trinity as many religions teach, Jesus is God's son. He prayed to his father not to himself. God is the universal sovereign the only true God and is identified by the name Jehovah. Psalms 83:18
18 That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah,
You alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Jesus lived as a man on earth to teach us about his father and to accomplish the ransom sacrifice of a perfect life without sin in order to balance out the imperfection of mankind and provide a way out from our sinful state.
The holy spirit is God's active force that accomplishes his will, an example of this is when people are filled with holy spirit, the bible was written by inspired writers.
God and Jesus exist in spirit form in the heavens.
John 4:24
24 God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.”
1 Cor. 15:44
44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one.
It takes a lot of study and research to learn, here are some sites you might find interesting. Contact your local Kingdom Hall and arrange a free study for whatever time you have once a week, 15 mins. or 1 hour.
How Did The Trinity Doctrine Develop?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_04.htm
Is The Trinity Clearly A Bible Teaching?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_03.htm
What Does The Bible Say About God And Jesus?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_05.htm
2006-11-09 13:05:21 · answer #3 · answered by research woman 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Most Christians base "Jesus is God" not on the Bible but on baseless tradition. Jesus cannot be God if only because God cannot be seen or heard, and Jesus surely was. (Exodus 33:20; John 1:18; John 6:46; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 4:12.)
2006-11-09 12:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by HandsOnCelibacy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The GodHead three in one Father Spirit and Son. I sugest you pick up the Holy Bible and read John Chapter one verse one, or revelation chapter one verse five John chapter one verse fourteen
Jesus is God in the flesh, and he warned that those who do not accept him as God in the flesh will die in their sins John chapter eight verse twenty four and revalation chapter one verse seventeen and eighteen.
Now my fair lady this is the truth. Jesus is God. He rose on the third day proving he was God. He said he was God "I am the first and the last" He is what he says or he is the biggest Liar in the history of the world. Jesus asked who do you say I am? And this Question is still relevant today and the way you answer it determines where you spend eternity.
Any more questions? Who ever has been giving you something other then what I say to you here is not aware of the truth.
God Bless you. Amen
2006-11-09 13:05:19 · answer #5 · answered by ditzhitz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is God's son. God created Jesus. He was first an angel and then God by a miracle implanted him in mary's womb and he lived a human life. After his death he returned to his angelic form.
Its silly to say Jesus is God's son therefore he is God. My daughter is four does that make her me. No she is an entirely seperate being.
And many faiths have seperate beliefs within their faith because they have no basis. People believe what they choose to believe. They each have their own interpretation of everything. And according to the bible there is only one true religion. The true religion will show love among themselves and for their neighbors, trusts God's word the bible and true religion strengthens families and upholds high moral standars.
2006-11-09 12:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The best way i can describe this is that Jesus and God are combined, but jesus is a form of god, the spirit is a form of god and god is god. Just like you have forms of water, liquid, solid, gas. God is the same, but hes still one. He just comes in different forms.
2006-11-09 12:37:00 · answer #7 · answered by livn 4 christ 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is God. For 33 years he was also man on earth. That is, when he walked the earth, he was 100% man and 100% God. Now that he has given up his body, he is united with the Father in heaven. He is still God, always has been, always will be.
2006-11-09 12:37:54 · answer #8 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jesus is God in human flesh. He is not half God and half man. He is fully divine and fully man. That is, Jesus has two distinct natures: divine and human. Jesus is the Word who was God and was with God and was made flesh, (John 1:1,14). This means that in the single person of Jesus is both a human and divine nature. The divine nature was not changed. It was not altered. He is not merely a man who "had God within Him" nor is he a man who "manifested the God principle." He is God, second person of the Trinity. "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word," (Heb. 1:3, NIV). Jesus' two natures are not "mixed together," nor are they combined into a new God-man nature. They are separate yet act as a unit in the one person of Jesus. This is called the Hypostatic Union.
Yes, I teach seminary and university-level Dogmatic Theology for my Diocese.
2006-11-09 12:40:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
because there are so many interpretations from the same scriptures
Jesus is God incarnate
Jesus is God in the form of a man
notice the capital G, unlike your question
2006-11-09 12:36:59 · answer #10 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is A god, not THE God. He came down to earth and inhabited a human body to become a ransom sacrifice for Adam's sin and and therefore our imperfection.
2006-11-09 12:51:02 · answer #11 · answered by Cher H 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋