If Jesus is God, why did he talk to God?

Question

First Jesus is God (according to the bible), don't believe me:

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But he talked to God, like "father why have you forsaken me?" Isn't he just talking to himself, someone else asked this question, and no one had an answer, in fact many Christians said that he is just the son of god, but you can't be both the son and the father, you just can't. I can beleive (though I don't) that God can come down as a man. That makes sense, but why would he talk to himself then?

First of look at the confusion amongst Christians.

Second "(Don't you ever talk to yourself?)" I admit i do, but i don't refer to myself as Father, sometimes Big Daddy, but that's just a nickname i gave myself.

Face it, Jesus is not God. I might eb able to accept that everything is God, and though that Jesus is God. But really he was just an overexaggerated rabbi. Doesn't that make more sense?

Answer 1

The Christian concept of the Trinity once seemed strange, perhaps even contrived, to me. How could something be three things that are one and one thing that is three? But the Trinity made sense to me once I came to believe in God, to recognize Him in Jesus Christ and to know the part of Him within me. My understanding of the Trinity, and belief in its truth, grew as I came to see that the universe itself reflects the three-in-one nature of the God who created it.
Water as solid, liquid and vaporMatter
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Three primary colors give white lightLight
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Three dimensions in spaceSpace
The space of our universe has three dimensions. You cannot define a point in space without using three dimensions, and yet that point is one.
Time in past, present and futureTime
Time in our universe has three dimensions that are found in past, present and future, yet it is a single continuum and only exists in the present.
Three primary forces of natureForces
There are three physical forces known to control all interactions in matter: gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear. The Unified Field Theory seeks to identify one set of laws that describes all these forces as different manifestations of one force.
Atoms
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The Son, Jesus Christ, the part of God that is immanent and appeared to us in the way that we could best know Him, in human form. He was both "Son of God," an expression of God as contained in human form, and at the same time "Son of Man," the ultimate expression of who we can be in our most divine form.
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Answer 2

I believe Jesus, the Son, is God turned to man. God, the Father, is our heavenly God, and the Holy Spirit is God's Spirit. That's why we say in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 3 entities that make up God. As to weather he talks to himself or not, I think he was talking more to the heavenly God rather than himself. Does this make sense or did I write down nonsense. Hope my beliefs helped.

Answer 3

Yes, you are exactly right.
There are 3 Gods on the Godhead, God the Father; Jesus, also a God, and the Holy Spirit, also a God. God the Father and Jesus the Son can no more occupy the same space, spirit or body than you and I. God has his own spirit and body, Christ has his own spirit and body, and the Holy Spirit is well, a spirit who doesn't have a body, yet.

Answer 4

I personally believe that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ are physically separate beings (but one in purpose - what one would say, the other would say too)...but Jesus was the God of the old testament acting in behalf of his Father.

I know it's a somewhat unique belief in all of Christianity - but to me, personally, it makes the most sense.

Answer 5

God is 3 separate person folks of One Divine Substance. So they're Divine singular no longer Divinities plural. The Father isn't the Son and the Son (Jesus) isn't the Holy Spirit neither is the Holy Spirit the Father however as a substitute they're all Divine, that's they have got One Divine Substance. So the Son talks to the Father who's another individual however they have got one Divine Substance, so they're Divine (Singular).

Answer 6

Simple.

God exist in three different realms, the spiritual (heaven), the soul (the hearts of men) and the physical (the world). In each of those realms he appears as a separate being, called Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Like a human, who has a physical part (the body), and mental/emotional part (the soul) and a spiritual part (the spirit). Each of them is part of a different realm and subjected to different laws in those realms. The mind can not physically move objects, but can go anywhere in time or space instantly, for example. Each of them is just as much "you" as any of the others, but none could function without the others. There are three "yous" in one being.

So God exist as three "persons" in one being. Each is just as much "God" as any of the others. He can be living in the hearts of his people, and still residing in heaven on his throne at the same time. He can be in the physical realm as Jesus and the heavenly realm as the Father at the same time. In fact, the ability to be do just there - be everywhere at once - is one of the three attributes needed for God to be God.

You will see multiple occasions of all three appearing together in the ministry of Jesus. Such as when Jesus came out of the water after his baptism and God the Father spoke while God the Holy Spirit descended like a dove on him. All through scripture that happens time and again. They often spoke to each other, and continue to do you. (Don't you ever talk to yourself?) I recall at least one occasion when Jesus prayed out loud and added "I know you always hear me, but I pray so those around me will hear it also".

Answer 7

Jesus is the Son of God, a different person from the Father.

We read in Genesis 1:26 that God is talking to someone: “Let us make man in our image..." Who was he talking to when he said US? Jesus answers us in Proverbs 8:30 "then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time..."

The same master worker, God's only begotten son was sent to earth to become the perfect man that will shed his blood as a sacrifice to give us back the perfect life that Adam lost.

Philippians 2:5 Keep this mental attitude in YOU that was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God. 7 No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and came to be in the likeness of men. 8 More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake. 9 For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, 10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, 11 and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Answer 8

The Son spoke to His Father. They are distinct persons. And the Son also had a human nature, thus would call His Father...God.

Answer 9

He didnt come down as a man. The GODHEAD are THREE seperate beings.... ONE in purpose.

Christ is called God here in some parts in the scriptures because HE actually created this earth. He is the one who was over the creation of everything.

God is his Father and that is who he was praying to. He didnt pray to himself.

Its the confusion of most of the modern world about the Godhead. But we know that its false. They are THREE seperate biengs, one in purpose.

Answer 10

Jesus was a human being and mortal one like others.
all is myth that he was god or son of god..
this myth was created by early Christ followers..
to give their religion superior looks....
and to attract other people to join their hands.......
they were clever and they made people abscessed with it...
see below...
Jesus was son of god..
he sacrifice his life for you peoples sins...
so go-ahead and do as many sins as you can do...
you will be forgiven definitely....
because Jesus already paid price for your sins....
now leave your religions and accepts Christianity.....

now tell me ....
isn't it mind blowing banner? suppose how many people are doing sins on that hope that they will be forgiven...

in-fact spread of Christianity worldwide was possible only due to that slogan....

now what i believe on this......
Jesus was true prophet of god,,, he lived.. and died....he was not son of god, nor he was god...
i am sorry if some one got hurt by my views..

Answer 11

Many centuries before the time of Christ, there were triads, or trinities, of gods in ancient Babylonia and Assyria. The French "Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology" notes one such triad in that Mesopotamian area: "The universe was divided into three regions each of which became the domain of a god. Anu's share was the sky. The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods."

The book "The Symbolism of Hindu Gods and Rituals" says regarding a Hindu trinity that existed centuries before Christ: "Siva is one of the gods of the Trinity. He is said to be the god of destruction. The other two gods are Brahma, the god of creation and Vishnu, the god of maintenance. . . . To indicate that these three processes are one and the same the three gods are combined in one form."—Published by A. Parthasarathy, Bombay.

Matt. 26:39, RS: “Going a little farther he [Jesus Christ] fell on his face and prayed, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.’” (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 Father’s will.)

John 8:17, 18, RS: “[Jesus answered the Jewish Pharisees:] In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true; I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me.” (So, Jesus definitely spoke of himself as being an individual separate and distinct from the Father.)

John 17:3, RS: “[Jesus prayed to his Father:] This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God [“who alone art truly God,” NE], and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (Notice that Jesus referred not to himself but to his Father in heaven as “the only true God.”)

John 20:17, RS: “Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalene], ‘Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (So to the resurrected Jesus, the Father was God, just as the Father was God to Mary Magdalene. Interestingly, not once in Scripture do we find the Father addressing the Son as “my God.”)