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is jesus god or are god and jesus two people?

2006-11-26 02:17:13 · 21 answers · asked by titanium_orange2005 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit - three Persons sharing one Essense or Substance (Greek: "Homousious" - "same substance" as opposed to "Homoiousios" which means "similar substance")

"God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity" (from the hymn "Holy, Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty.)

The Trinity" is a term that is not found in the Bible but a word used to describe what is apparent about God in the Scriptures. The Bible clearly speaks of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit...and also clearly presents that there is only one God. Thus the term: "Tri" meaning three, and "Unity" meaning one, Tri+Unity = Trinity.

It is a way of acknowledging what the Bible reveals to us about God, that God is yet three "Persons" who have the same essence of deity.

Some people have mistakenly tried to give human illustrations for the Trinity, such as H2O being water, ice and steam (all different forms, but all are H2O). Another illustration is an egg having a shell, egg yolk and egg white, but this egg illustration shows that there would be "parts" to God, which isn't the case. These illustrations are wrong....and were condemned by Ecumenical Church Councils prior to the Schism of 1054 A.D.

God the Son (Jesus) is fully, completely God. God the Father is fully, completely God. And God the Holy Spirit is fully, completely God. Yet there is only one God. In our world, with our limited human experience, it's tough to understand the Trinity. But from the beginning we see God this way in Scripture. Notice the plural pronouns "us" and "our" in Genesis 1:26 -- Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Though not a complete list, here is some other Scripture that shows God is one, in Trinity:

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" (Deut. 6:4)

"I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." (Isa. 45:5)

There is no God but one. (1Cor. 8:4)

And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased." (Matt. 3:16-17)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 28:19)

Jesus said: "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)

"He who has seen Me has seen the Father." (John 14:9)

"He who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." (John 12:45)

If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. (Rom. 8:9)

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 1:20)

And the angel answered and said to her [Mary], "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)

[Jesus speaking to His disciples] "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you." ... "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:16-17, 23)

2006-11-26 02:20:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Jesus is God the Son. There is one God who has revealed Himself to mankind in three persons. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense but then again if we could understand the nature of God then He wouldn't be much of a "god" would He?

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made....John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 14:8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

Matthew 3:16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

Acts 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

2006-11-26 02:22:29 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0 0

Yes. At John 17:3, Jesus called his Father the only true God.

Jesus, in his prehuman existence, was "the first-born of all creation." (Colossians 1:15, NJB) He was "the beginning of God's creation." (Revelation 3:14, RS, Catholic edition). "Beginning" [Greek, ar·khe'] cannot rightly be interpreted to mean that Jesus was the 'beginner' of God's creation. In his Bible writings, John uses various forms of the Greek word ar·khe' more than 20 times, and these always have the common meaning of "beginning." Yes, Jesus was created by God as the beginning of God's invisible creations.

2006-11-26 02:25:32 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0 0

This is the hardest question ever to understand. There's Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit. they're all seperate but they're together, the best way of describing it is like an egg. an egg has a shell, the yoke and the white stuff inside i,t you can seperate them and it's still an egg but they're also together and it forms an egg. that probably sounds really confusing but ya did ask a question that with human understanding we're not really gonna grasp

2006-11-26 02:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Bible refers to God as several things. His encarnation of Jesus is his human from sent down to earth. When Jesus died on the cross and rose to heaven, he 're-united with God'.

Jesus, and God, therefore, are the same. We believe that God is a TRIUNE God - The Father (God in heaven), The Son (Jesus when he came to Earth), and the Holy Spirit (What Jesus left behind to all of us - our conscience as a christian)

Hope this helps.

2006-11-26 02:22:33 · answer #5 · answered by Migs 2 · 0 0

relies upon on the religion ... Christian - they're a similar God no longer Christian - no, they are separate Christian The practise of the Bible almost about the Trinity will be summarized therefore. God is a Tri-solidarity, with everyone of the Godhead both and entirely and ceaselessly God. each and every is critical, and each and every is distinct, and yet all are one. the three persons seem in a logical, causal order. the daddy is the unseen, omnipresent source of all being, revealed in and by the Son, experienced in and by the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the daddy, and the Spirit from the Son. with connection with God's creation, the daddy is the idea in the back of it, the Son is the be conscious calling it forth, and the Spirit is the Deed making it a actuality. purely as in a flame you've fireplace, mild and warm temperature, so God is likewise 3-in-One. you could’t separate the flame from the mild, or the warm temperature from... you get the image... they are all an quintessential element of a similar element... yet each and every is separate and distinct. yet another, yet very similar representation is water... ice, liquid and steam... each and every distinct... yet each and every a similar, and indivisible from the different.

2016-11-29 19:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by gagliano 4 · 0 0

Jesus is a creation of God, a special creation, not like you and I from the union of a man and a woman. He is created with God's Spirit, hence the term roohu'Allah (the Spirit of God) which is how he is referred to in the Quran.

2006-11-26 02:24:56 · answer #7 · answered by peace m 5 · 0 0

In Genesis-Malachi, there are multiple terms translated god (in English), (around 10 in the Protestant Bible). Some singular, some are plural. Is Jesus god ?; Yes. Are there other beings that are god also? Yes.

2006-11-26 03:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0 0

The technical response is yes.

There are three Persons in the Godhead, each sharing equally in that Divinity of Nature. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all are equally God, but individuals nonetheless.

It is the greatest mystery of faith. How can there be three yet only one? Give up, dear. Only one who is omniscient can understand what this really means. That's why we call it "FAITH". 'Cause we gotta take His word for it. We just ain't big enough in the brainbox to understand.

2006-11-26 02:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0 0

God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit form the Holy Trinity, they are the same but different. In no sense are they people. When God the Son was on earth he was a person but when he died and rose again he ceased to be a person.

2006-11-26 02:20:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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