Jesus pray to God? So how does the Trinity works?

Question

Peter and the two sons of Zebedee were with Jesus Christ before the elders of the people and the chief priests came to take him to crucify him. Jesus at this point talked to Peter and the two sons of Zebedee as in Matthew 26:38 "Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." Then Jesus went a little further way from them and prayed to God.

Matthew 26:39 "And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, IF it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I(i repeat again >>"I"<<) will, BUT AS THOU WILT."

The ques is, at that moment of sorrow, is Jesus God? If he's God then who did he prayed to? Allahah?

Answer 1

Some people believe in Trinity. Trinity means that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one in the same. This is false. They are, in fact, three seperate entities. God the Father, Jesus the son and the Holy Spirit. Allah is just another name for the individual as Jesus and God have many names in every culture. Allah, Rabi, Yahweh, Jesus (Hesuse in Spanish), etc. Different names do not mean different people. Same people, different names. What that last verse means, more or less, is that Jesus understood that his part in it was almost finished and it was time to pass the torch so that God's work would continue on through those who God chose to do it. He had done his fathers work and applied God's will in the mortal world, as was his destiny. His life was sacrificed, as was also his destiny. It was now time for what ever was to be next, according to GOD'S will. He was basically saying that he understood that what he wanted was insignifigant and that only his fathers will mattered and it was a surrendering of himself to his fathers will. he had lived his life serving his father and by his fathers will. His death was just the last step in doing so and this was his way of saying "even unto death" meaning that even the cost of his life was worth it and something he would do so that his father would hold dominion over the earth. That is what all of that meant. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Jesus prayed to God, with the aid of fact he isn't God, who he became into praying to. God is the utmost and no person is greater than God, so that's lifelike which you on no account see God praying to Jesus in the scriptures (John 14:28). The doctrine of the Trinity is a lie, and is not from God (2 Timothy 4:4).

Answer 3

I'm changing my answer. I must say, you are provoking people.
Unless it's summed up in two sentences, you don't read it.

If you can understand this, i hope, then it will make sense.

Trinity = Father, Son, Holy ghost. The trinity is One.
Jesus was The Christ. Jesus = Man. Christ = Son.
Christ was manifest in Jesus the Man. The Man Jesus Prayed to God the Father that night.

I don't know why people are allowed to rate Religious answers. Religion is a personal matter, and there is no Correct answer. As long as you truly believe in God, the truth will come to you.

Answer 4

Did you also make the error of thinking that the Trinity means that Jesus is the Father? There are three distinct Persons of the Trinity. The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Holy Spirit. If you care there is a way for you to understand, well maybe a little understanding. In space there are 3 dimensions Height, Width, and Breadth. Each is separate, each is infinite. Because each of them is infinite each contains all space.. Yet these three dimensions make up one space.. Can you see that now? These three Person make up the One true God.. Jim

Answer 5

Hi, firstly you have to realize that God is beyond our human capabilities in as far as the Heavens are above the earth,we could not look upon His awesome majesty let alone be in His presence, we would simply die.
with this in mind Gods plan was magnificent in that He would come down to earth and take our human nature while hiding His divinity from mere mortal eyes, this God and Man is Jesus Christ.
Jesus is God in a body like ours except that He was pure and without sin, He was then prepared to suffer like us,hunger, physical pain, sorrow, in fact every human feeling, and this is why He is also called Emmanuel which means (God with us).
but not only that, Jesus represented us in His humanity and by His life of humble service showed us how to truly love God and serve one another.
He freely chose to subject Himself to God in every way and taught men to call God Father, so to finish, Yes Jesus is God, the second person of the Godhead (Trinity) and is the new Adam.

Answer 6

There are three persons within the Trinity, each fully God, each fully God, all one God.
Jesus praying to God the Father in Matt 26:39 is an example of what is known as the Kenosis, which is set out in Philippians 2:5-7
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

When Jesus "emptied Himself" He dropped His glory, but not His power; His place in Heaven, but not forever.

Remember that the Trinity is Three in One. Why are we surprised that Jesus prayed to God any more than we are surprised to hear the Father say, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased," (Matthew 3:17) at His baptism; or again, at His transfiguration: While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!" (Matthew 17:5).

Jesus praying to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane is not as surprising to me as Jesus' prayer from the cross: "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' which is translated, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?', (Mark 15:34), where Jesus was quoting from Psalm 22:1.

How the Trinity "works" is one of the things that sincere believers, and lettered scholars have discussed in detail, sometimes heatedly; but the depths of the mysteries of God remain the mysteries of God. But without love, these bits of knowledge are worse than useless.
1 Corinthians 13:2 "And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."

Answer 7

Before Christ came to earth, he was God. He was worshiped. Heb 1:4 "And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him." and was God
"But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom"
Yes, Jesus prayed to God. It was one of those things he had to relinquish before he took on a Human Body. While on Earth Jesus was fully human, limited like every man. He could die and be killed, he hungered and thirst, he had limited knowledge, he had no possession, he left his throne in heaven e.t.c.
He gave up all these things only for a while.
The trinity, even though it is not literally written in the bible it is still written in the bible. The trinity not being written in the bible only confirms what Paul was talking about when he said "The Godhead is a great Mystery" in Rom 1:20 "20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
and also 1 Timothy 3:16 "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory"

True Jesus praued to God, that is because he was Human 8even though, in heaven and on earth He is still bound by the will of God the father)
By fact, we know that only God answers payers, however Jesus wasn't wrong when he said in John 14:13-14
"13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it" thereby asking us to pray unto him. If he wasn't God, he wouldn't have asked us to pray to him. He wouldn't have claimed Gods' commandments to be his own Read this verse Matt 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments"
Why will he call those commandments "His?" Are the commandments not Gods' given unto him to give unto man?
There are numerous verses that surports a Trinity, but seeing that that was not the question you aksed I will stop here for now.

Answer 8

When he took on a human "tent",He limited himself so as to identify with man.Read Phillipians."He who thought it not robbery to be equal to God ,emptied Himself for our sake".
If He had stayed fully God ,how could He indentify with our weaknesses?
#2 Father ,Son, and Holy Spirit are both 3 and 1....1x1x1=1 God in 3 persons ,it is not 1+1+1=3 separate Gods.
In Genesis it says "Let us....make man in our image" In Collosians 1,it says how all things were created by God through Jesus at the beginning.John 1 says "In the begining was the Word(Jesus) and the Word was with God and the Word(Jesus) was God.
See?

Answer 9

When Jesus was in a human body, he chose to pray like the rest of us. He could have left this world, abandoned us, and went Home to God at any time. The Holy Trinity is the Mother God, the Father God, and the Holy Spirit, or the love that the Mother God and the Father God have for eachother. I believe that somewhere along the line, the Mother God was written out of the Bible by men who wanted to ensure the insignificance of women.

Answer 10

Jesus prayed all the time in Scripture. It was an example to the rest of us. But since during His Incarnation, He was actually in two places at the same 'time', as the Father/Spirit in Hyperspace AND as the Flesh and Blood Redeemer.

In Matt 26:39, Jesus was speaking in the flesh. Of COURSE He didn't want to suffer pain and death, but He knew that despite that, the Father's Plan was the best solution possible to the problem of sin. Therefore He chose to submit, for the joy set before Him.