jesus god in the flesh?

Question

until i started going to a baptist church,i nver once heard this.is this the only religion that teaches this.i mean no disrepect,but if he was,then who was he always praying to.also can anyone tell me where his 'father' joseph was at the time of the crucifiction.the passion of the christ shows his mother,brother and sister there but not him.also please help settle this one.it was a question brought up to a preacher at the hospital when my father was having surgery.JOHN 3:16 is in red letters.the red letters are supposed to be the words of Christ.why didn't he say.....gave me instead of him.it makes it sound like He is talking about someone else?

Answer 1

Joseph had died and Jesus had no brothers and sisters, they were his cousins

John 1:14 - "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth
All Churches teach that Jesus was flesh

God Bless You

Answer 2

John1:1,14 tells who Jesus is, this is just something you have to accept.I will explain it to you this way .Think about water or any chemical compound ,it has three forms liquid ,solid and gas.In the same way so does God .God the father, God the Holy Spirit and God in the flesh a.k.a.Jesus Christ.How it all works I do not know but if God wanted us to know that he would have reveal that to us.Deuteronomy29:29 says the secret things of God are his....AS for John3:16 i suggest you read the whole passage starting from verse 1.Take special note to who Jesus was adressing.You must not only know what the words mean but know the context in which they are spoken.This question really needs to be handle through a proper study not on YA.

Answer 3

Yes, Jesus is God.

John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Colossians 2:9
For in him [Christ] dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Joseph may or may not have been alive. No one knows, he may have been working during the Crucifixion since it was the middle of the day and it was not a Sabbath.

Concerning John 3:16, Jesus referred to Himself in the third person a lot, calling Himself the Son of Man or the Son of God.

Answer 4

Matthew 17:5b...This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him. (God the Father said about Jesus)

Job 1:6 ..when the sons of the true God entered to take their station before YHWH...(so angels are called sons of God)

Matthew 9:6 ..you must pray this way, OUR Father who...(Jesus called the Almighty his Father also)

Because Joseph is not mentioned, at Jesus' death, one can reason that either he died or turned bad. It is more reasonable to conclude he died because Jesus gave his mother, to the apostle John, to care for in his home. John 18:26.

Acts 7:55 .....and of Jesus standing at God's right hand.

John 2:17 For God sent forth his Son into the world, ..

Answer 5

There are various theories on this one. I will provide the rest and then my own and why I believe that one. Its up to you which one you want to believe (or none at all if you'd like). For the record, the Baptists aren't the only ones who do. I know for a fact that Catholics and Protestants both do, I know there are more but I'm not sure which others.

One theory is that God (Jehovah or Yahweh--based on old Jewish writings) is actually three distinct personalities sharing one spiritual body. These three are Jehovah the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Jesus was supposed to have been separated for the purpose of coming to earth to die for our sins.

A second theory has it that God is one person with the three parts all of us are supposed to have. Jehovah in this case is God's mind, Jesus is his body, and the Holy Spirit or Ghost is His Soul. It is believed by proponents of this theory that this is what is meant when the Bible says we are made in God's image. We have a mind, body, and soul (not everyone agrees however that the Bible says we have a soul--there is the possibility it said we are souls and cease to exist at death in every form except God's memory).

Another theory is that God is one person who changes His name based on what his purpose is at the time. Jehovah was His name when He was creating the universe and everything in it. Jesus was His name while He was on earth and dying for us. And the Holy Ghost is His name when He does various things in helping us to come to salvation now. One person with one consciousness, who simply uses separate names for various purposes.

The theory I believe in however, is that the old church screwed things up and simply made up this theory on their own. In the fourth century, Emperor Diocletian of the Roman empire switched to Christianity. He of course ruled everyone in his empire must also, but many were having trouble with the idea of one God (since multiple gods had been the order of the day with Zeus and Hera and Mars and Venus, etc.) They were also ordered to spread the Christian religion, but ran into trouble there also because Egypt (their first attempt to spread it), also had multiple gods.

Egyptian religion at the time held that all Gods had to come in the form of a trinity so that each could reinforce the power of the other two. If a god was removed from a trinity the god lost all their power. Since the Christian god (Jehovah--the continuation of the Jewish God) was only one personality, the Egyptians considered Him powerless and refused to switch religions. The Roman Catholic church (what the Roman empire's Christian religion came to be called) decided a compromise was in order.

They found three possible people to combine into a trinity and convince the Egyptians the Christian god had power. They found Jehovah, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The Egyptians bought it and started becoming Christians. Added to that, we were told not to use the Lord's name in vain (Jehovah being his actual name, not Jesus). So the early Catholics decided to remove His name out of the Bible and replace it with Lord or God or Almighty, and soon the name Jehovah fell out of use.

Since Jesus was the only name being used (Holy Spirit or Ghost not really being a name), eventually everyone just began to see Jesus as being God's name. Which is where the idea Jesus is god came from. But in the King James version of the Bible (the old one, the name was removed in the new version for a reason I can't possibly comprehend) in Psalms 83:18, the Bible specifically states that God's name is in fact Jehovah.

Answer 6

Since Joseph is not mentioned at all during the adulthood of Jesus, it is assumed he must have died before Jesus began his ministry.

Jesus frequently claimed divinity, John 3:16 does not indicate Jesus is talking about someone else.

"No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven - the Son of Man." John 3:13

The woman said, "I know that Messiah (Called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us". Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he" John 4:26

"For as the Father has life in himself, so he granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man" John 5:26 (third person again)

"Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
"Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."
Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you" John 9:35

As far as "who Jesus was praying to" - the Father, quite simply. Remember Jesus was in a delicate position about to suffer pain and death.... The Father, though, was in the security of heaven, immortal with all his glory, while Jesus was to be condemned as a criminal.

Answer 7

Trying to explain God with human understanding is very limited, because we are limited. We can only know about God by what He has revealed to us in the Holy Bible. We cannot understand all that there is to know about God from our human perspective.
However the way I understand it to be. God came to earth in human form being Jesus. He had the ability to cast himself down through the Virgin Mary. He then took human form and when He was born as Jesus He didnt bore himself with the knowledge that He was GOD, only that He was the Son of God. Therefore, in his mind, being Jesus, He prayed to God, not to Himself. Again I say, while he was Jesus he had no knowledge of himself being God. He then died as a human therefore went to heaven to be with God. He didnt walk this earth claimiing to be God, only that he was the son of God. I hope this makes sense to you

Answer 8

Christ taught that God & his Kingdom is within everyone--including Himself--it's the Christian Church who has seperated the Teacher from the teachings

Answer 9

>>is this the only religion that teaches this.<<

All of Christianity teaches that. It is Christianity 101.

>>then who was he always praying to.<<

God the Father.

>>also can anyone tell me where his 'father' joseph was at the time of the crucifiction.<<

It is assumed he had passed on by that time.

Answer 10

It is believed that Joseph had passed away at the time of Jesus crucifiction because he is never mentioned in the bible during Jesus's ministry.
The trinity explains the rest of your questions.
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Time in past, present and futureTime
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Three primary forces of natureForces
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Atoms
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