Who did Jesus pray to if HE really is God?

Question

I met a man who was a Christion,but converted to a Muslim.

He told me this question.
Christians believe that Jesus is God. So who exactly was he praying to?????????????????

Badra, I totally agree with you cuz im Muslim.
if Jesus was praying to his father,how did Jesus become God?

iblis_6969,do you know that Iblis is another way of saying Satan?

Answer 1

he prayed to god , cuz he was aan honorable prophet and a human(peace be upon him).

thare are so many things in christianty that doesn't make sense !!,

may god guide us all to the right path.

Answer 2

Hello well there are various scriptures in the bible that proves that Jesus is the Son and not the father For example.. Matt 26:39 If the father and the son were not distinct individuals, such a prayer would have been meaningless. Jesus would have been praying to himself and his will would of necessity have been the fathers will...Aslo Matthwe 24:36 Concerning that day and Hour Nobody knows neither the ANGELS of the heavan, NOR THE SON but only the FATHER..

Answer 3

He prayed to the Father. Jesus was the word of God, and the Word was with God (John 1:1-4). In essense he was God incarnated on earth in human flesh. This is why he is called the only beggotten Son (John 3:16-17), or the second part of the Trinity. Jesus had to come and shed his blood for the remission of sins for the entire world. Once he took it back to the Father (the Blood), humanity was now able to come into a direct relationship through the blood sheed by the Lord Jesus Christ. In essense he is God, because to know him is like knowing the Father.

Answer 4

There is a belief that Jesus grew in Wisdom and Knowledge and that He did not fully understand Whom He was until His resurrection. After all the human mind can only understand so much. His faith told Him Whom He was. He told us that He and the Father were One. When Jesus prayed to God, He was praying to the third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
Our spiritual side is not limited as our bodies are. We have God living in us. We can also pray to the God within.

Answer 5

Jesus prayed to his father...God.

So, you met a man who converted...ok

Jesus was praying to His father asking if there was another way to reconcile mankind back to God. You have to understand that He wasn't praying because He was going to die...He was praying because He was going to become sin and die as a sacrifice. That's huge. Imagine all the sin and sickness and disease coming on Him. He became to overcome. Jesus is God but is separate but one with God and the Holy Spirit. He choose to obey His father and is now seated at the right hand. It's a reflection principal. Same as how a wife should reflect her husband and the husband reflects Christ and Christ reflects His father. ---It's all in the Bible. If you want answers then read the Bible

Answer 6

He prayed to the Father.

Jesus is not the Father or the Spirit, and the Father is not the Son or the Spirit, and the Spirit is neither the Father or Son. They are all God, but separate persons.

An ancient diagram of the Trinity can be helpful in getting your hands around the doctrine, and can be found at the link in the SOURCE list.

Answer 7

i want to give you an overview of who Jesus is.He is the Son of God.He was born in to the world in human form.He on earth with a special purpose...to rescue mankind from satan'spower,to destroy the works of satan in our lives,to give us eternal life,to give us "new birth into the family of God and to restore our fellowship with God the Father.
Join me in the mount of olives where Jesus and His disciples went to pray.He was praying to the Father (Luke 22:39-44)...Father,if you are willing take this cup away from me,yet not my will but yours be done" and in John 17 He pray for himself,He prays for His disciples and He prays for all believers.
maybe your friend who converted to muslim is not really a believer or did not experience this "born-again experience" as other christians did like me.He had the "Seed" planted in his heart and i am sure he will turn back to God.God bless you

Answer 8

Since the Bible affirms that Jesus is God, it is often perplexing to note that Jesus addresses God in prayer. The answer to this, as well as to all references to Jesus as tired, hungry, weeping, lacking knowledge, etc., is that Jesus was a true man, as well as God. The second Person of the Trinity, God the Son, took upon Himself complete humanity, except for our sinful nature, when He was conceived in Mary. He is described by theologians as one Divine Person having two natures, divine and human—the God-man.

Passages of Scripture which describe Jesus' limitations are referring to His humanity. He lived His life as a true man, depending upon His heavenly Father day by day, just as we are expected to do. Many believe that even His miracles and supernatural knowledge were enabled by the Holy Spirit, not accomplished by switching back and forth between His divine and human natures. When Jesus cried from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He was expressing from His human consciousness the terrible sense of being separated from His heavenly Father as He suffered the penalty for the world's sin. He, of course, with respect to His divine nature, could not suffer or die. In all of this great mystery, we have only glimmers of truth which is beyond human comprehension.
The Bible shows very clearly that there is only one God, and yet that there are three personal distinctions in His complex nature, traditionally referred to as "three Persons in the Godhead"—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each is distinct from the others but never acts independently. They are one in nature and purpose. This mystery is called the doctrine of the Trinity, though that term is not used in the Bible. The teaching, however, is present in seed form in the Old Testament and is revealed explicitly in the New Testament. Note passages such as Matthew 28:19; John 10:30, 14:26; 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Our finite minds cannot understand or explain this mystery of God, which is nevertheless a fact. We must accept the truths found in the Word of God by faith even though we ourselves cannot comprehend them fully; read Hebrews 11:1,3,6 and 1 Corinthians 2:5-10;14; 13:12. It is really not surprising that the infinite God should be complex in His nature beyond the ability of finite humans to comprehend! This doctrine is absolutely essential to New Testament Christianity. Theologians have pointed out that if it were not true, the Bible would be unreliable, Christ would not be divine, and His death on the cross would not atone for our sins, being merely the death of a martyr.

Answer 9

JESUS was praying to God the Father like he prayed Short prayer when he was crucified and he said Father if it is your will take away this cup from me

Answer 10

Jesus, God the Son, was praying to God, the Father, who sent Him to die on the cross for YOU.

Answer 11

Jesus prayed to his Father. You say that you met a Christian man that converted to Islam. Don't you know that every being is free to choose the belief that he thinks represents him? Your friend chose Islam, I hope though that he will not be one of those fanatics.