2007-01-20 12:53:15 · 9 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Doh! I keep forgetting the Trinity...
2007-01-20 12:57:02 · update #1
My apologies people, I forget God has the power to break into three pieces.
2007-01-20 12:57:41 · update #2
He was praying to God the Father.
2007-01-20 12:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Michael L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I assume you've heard of the Trinity (three Persons, One God). The second Person, Jesus, took the form of a man and taught us how to live a pure, holy life.
The Bible states that creation declares the glory of the Lord. A couple of examples of this 3-in-1 from creation (w/o the splitting):
1. Think of one egg. It is comprised as an entity by the shell, the white and the yoke. Three elements, one egg.
2. Also water. It can appear in creation as three different forms: ice, liquid, steam.
Hope that helps, if it was an honest question.
2007-01-20 13:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by God Still Speaks Through His Word! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
“After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him. Look! Also, there was a voice from the heavens that said: ‘This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.’” (Matthew 3:16, 17)
And God don't lie.
2007-01-20 13:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by papa G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you take Mary Magdaline to be a Prostitute, which to be Biblical it seems she was just a sexual sinner, but lets say she was,
So God went to a Prostitute praying.
Doh! I'm not a very funny guy. I'm sure theres 100s of Mary Magdaline jokes.
Cause the alternative is jesus went to a hoe without a prayer.
2007-01-20 13:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. Jesus was not schizophrenic. He was praying to God because they are two separate entities.
2007-01-20 12:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by C. J. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trinity is something that Satan uses to keep people from knowing who the True God is.
Jesus was praying to his father.
That prayer and even its introduction in themselves show the very close relationship that Jesus himself enjoyed with his Father. He had been speaking to his disciples, looking at them as he talked; then he needed only to ‘raise his eyes to heaven’ and continue talking, but now speaking to his Father.
It was as simple as that.On the basis of such a relationship to God Jesus addressed himself to God as a son and prayed: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole number whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” (John 17:1-3) Thus Jesus did not claim to be “the only true God.”
Notice that Jesus prays to One whom he calls “the only true God.” He points to God’s superior position when he continues: “So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.” (John 17:5) Since Jesus prayed to God requesting to be alongside God, how could Jesus at the same time be “the only true God”?
Does the Bible agree with those who teach that the Father and the Son are not separate and distinct individuals? No it does not.
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.)
Though he invariably found himself busy from morning to night, he set aside time to talk to his heavenly Father. Sometimes, Jesus got up “early in the morning, while it was still dark,” in order to pray. (Mark 1:35) On other occasions, he retired to a lonely place at the end of the day in order to talk to Jehovah.
The Scriptures make it clear that Jesus was entirely human from his birth until his death. John did not say that the Word was merely clothed with flesh. He “became flesh” and was not part flesh and part God. If Jesus had been human and divine at the same time, it could not have been said that he had been “made a little lower than angels.” Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 8:4, 5.
If Jesus had been both God and man when on the earth, why did he repeatedly pray to Jehovah? Paul wrote: “In the days of his flesh Christ offered up supplications and also petitions to the One who was able to save him out of death, with strong outcries and tears, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear.” Hebrews 5:7.
That Jesus was not partly a spirit when on the earth is proved by Peter’s statement that Christ was “put to death in the flesh, but, made alive in the spirit.” (1 Peter 3:18) Only because Jesus was wholly human could he have experienced what imperfect people experience and thus become a sympathetic high priest. Wrote Paul: “We have as high priest, not one who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in all respects like ourselves, but without sin.”, Hebrews 4:15.
2007-01-20 15:57:21 · answer #6 · answered by BJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was trying to explain that compassion,
forces and matter are three separate things
that interface.
2007-01-20 13:12:19 · answer #7 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thi is a stupid question, why would he have to play if he WAS god?
2007-01-20 12:57:41 · answer #8 · answered by J J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
(smile)
2007-01-20 13:05:15 · answer #9 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋