It just doesn't make any sense.
2007-01-26 06:19:30 · 33 answers · asked by Kimo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right. It makes no sense. Was he praying to himself? Was he praying to 1/3 of himself?
Some say that he was doing it because he was in human form. But trinitarians say that while on earth, he was fully man and fully God at the same time. So that still begs the question, why was he praying to God if he himself was God? For those who feel he was not God while on earth, that means there is a time when God is not God. How can that be?
Jesus praying to God makes perfect sense only because Jesus himself was not God Almighty. Nor did he ever claim to be. It should be noted that among "believers," there are many professed Christians who accept this doctrine and many professed Christians who reject it. Really, though what does the Bible teach?
Hannah J Paul
2007-01-26 06:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
One would need an understanding the Trinity and the incarnation of Jesus to answer this. In essence the Trinity is the doctrine that there is only one God in all existence. This one God exists as three persons: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are not three gods, but one God. Each is a separate person, yet each of them is, in essence, divine in nature.
Jesus, who is the second person of the Trinity, added to himself human nature and became a man. As a man, Jesus needed to pray. When He was praying he was not praying to Himself, but to God the Father.
2007-01-26 06:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. He was sent to earth on our behalf, and His life is the example of how we are to respond to God. As a man, Jesus needed to pray. When He was praying he was not praying to Himself, but to God the Father.
2007-01-26 06:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by mariedockins 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is God, the Father is God and, the Holy Spirit is God. God has revealed himself in scripture through three distinct and seperate persons. Jesus had two natures. He was fully God and fully man at the same time. He was a living paradox. Jesus expressed his humanity and his deity throughout his life. There is a hierarchy with the Trinity of God. The Father is the head and reverenced by Jesus during his lifetime, but they are one in the same God. The Father sent the Son, so the son reverenced the Father in prayer. The prayer that Jesus conducted was not just a show of reverence to the Father, but also served as an example or model of how we are to pray to God as well. Jesus wanted to be the best example to us as possible, you see this when he was baptised by John in the Jordan as well.
Matt
2007-01-26 06:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Jesus never referred to himself as God. It was the later teachings of Christianity that referred to him as the son or child of God, based on Jesus's teachings that the spark of God is within all creation, including humanity. Therefore, Jesus spoke only of "the Father," in the Hebrew context, referring to the God of Abraham. It was the Roman Empire that deified Jesus when the first Council of Nicea was held, establishing the Roman Catholic Church as the official religion of the Roman state.
2007-01-26 06:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is not God, who told you that he was?
Jesus is Jesus, God's son. God in turn is Jesus's Father. That is why he was praying to him.
When people pray (for the most part) they start off by saying
"My Dear Heavenly Father" (God) and they close their prayer by saying something like
"In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen" ( God's son).
Hope this helps.
2007-01-26 06:38:07 · answer #6 · answered by Aunt Henny Penny 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is prayed as the son of God, So as son he prayed God. Since he being son of god he is deemed to be more powerful that ordinary humans. So that is why people pray to him so that he could grant people wishes through god.
2007-01-26 06:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by ramkumar 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The God of the bible is a tri-part God. He is both one and three.
Jesus said that he is in the father and the father is in him. He also said that his father is more glorified than him in John 15.
Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father are at the same time "one God" and three separate and distinct personalities and identities.
So, Jesus (the son) often prayed to God (the father) when he was on earth. Its also important to remember that when Jesus was on earth he was full man as well as being God.
And furthermore its important to remember that the bible is not written for the post renaissance - reason/logic based demands. Its written by an Eastern mind set that speaks of truth and ideas. Not facts and evidence.
2007-01-26 06:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by aarondarling 3 · 4⤊ 5⤋
In His Incarnation He was willingly limited as a human, and submitted to God The Father. At His baptism we see all three of the Personages of the Godhead together at one time & place. We see the Son in the water, The Father voicing His Approval of the Son from heaven, and the Holy Spirit descending from Heaven to land & stay on Him. The works Jesus performed were not done as God, they were done as a Man, fully Annointed with the Holy Spirit, and submitted to doing the Will of the Father.
2007-01-26 06:29:43 · answer #9 · answered by ballardbutch 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Who said Jesus was God?
He always referred to himself as the 'son of God' or son of man.
2007-01-26 06:30:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋