Can God pray to God?
2007-01-26 07:18:37 · 13 answers · asked by House Speaker 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholic and Orthodox Trinity God? Jesus, is simply not the God of the Bible.
2007-01-26 07:26:42 · update #1
Athanasius is not prophet.
2007-01-26 07:29:00 · update #2
If the Holy Ghost is a co-equal member of the trinity, why does the Bible always speak of Him being sent from the Father?
2007-01-26 08:47:51 · update #3
After Jesus Christ went to heaven and after the death of the apostles, never again would they have a prophet keeping them in direct contact with God. So who is Athanasius?
2007-01-26 08:52:53 · update #4
They are not co-equal persons, there is no trinity. Jesus was a man, a Messenger of God, who was praying to God.
2007-01-26 07:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is explained in Philippians 2:5-11. It says that even though Jesus was equal with God, he gave it up for a season and became a servant. He took on human form and was an obedient son to his Father even to the point of giving his life for others.
During that time, he did not use his divine powers, but rather lived a sinless life using nothing but the powers that every person has available to them. That included prayer. Had he not been able to live a perfect live without using his divine abilities, then he could not ask the same of us. So during that time, he had to use prayer, he had to be filled with the Holy Spirit, he had to do physical things like eat and sleep, etc.
Once his mission was done, he was resurrected and returned to heaven and the fullness of his power.
2007-01-26 07:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question you have to ask yourself is. Does the Bible contradict itself? Anyone claining to be a christian would have to say no. Then you would have to take scriptures that state things simply the way they are written. For example" The father is greater than I" or " I am here to do the will of Him that sent me" It is obvious that Jesus is God's son. When he says things like "If you have seen me you have seen the Father" then it would be contradictory to say that Jesus and God are the same. Jesus' qualities are a reflection of his fathers like a mirror. God created Jesus(his right hand man) and then he sat back and let Jesus create everything else, He was apparently still a rookie creator when he created the Devil.
2007-01-26 07:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by thefoamguy60050 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Communication. Praying (by Jesus) to the Father would also be an example to others then and now.
May you receive a large pleasant surprise today, Glory to God.
2007-01-26 08:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Jesus came to earth he gave up his purely Godly nature and became dependent on the Father for his provisioning. He did this as an example for us to follow, that we should depend on God and not on ourselves or other men. Jesus is 100% God and 100% man, but he is still the Son of God. God is our Father, and as our Father we should depend on him.
2007-01-26 07:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just as my wife is my co-equal, she has a role that is different than mine. She looks to me as the spiritual leader of the home.
Jesus is co-equal with the Father, but the Father's role is a superior one in duty, not substance. Jesus also prayed as our life example.
UPDATE: Well said, Father K!
2007-01-26 07:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here. read this, Nobody ever said it any better than St. Athanasius:
1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith;
2. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
3. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
4. Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.
5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.
6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.
8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.
9. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.
10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.
11. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal.
12. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible.
13. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty.
14. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.
15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;
16. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord;
18. And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord.
19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord;
20. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords.
21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.
22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.
23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.
25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.
26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.
27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.
29. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
30. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.
31. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world.
32. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
33. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood.
34. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ.
35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God.
36. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ;
38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead;
39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God, Almighty;
40. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies;
42. and shall give account of their own works.
43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.
44. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
2007-01-26 07:25:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God was in the Flesh but He is God and was also about to be in heaven
2007-01-26 07:24:24 · answer #8 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not only can god pray to himself, god can also sacrifice himself to himself in order to appease himself.
2007-01-26 07:24:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
as an example for humans to follow
2007-01-26 07:28:16 · answer #10 · answered by martinmagini 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋