So do they believe Jesus is a more important figure or that God is more important? Do they consider God divine? How about Jesus, is he considered divine also?
2007-02-12 16:36:25 · 18 answers · asked by Soggy Waffles 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are the same thing.
2007-02-12 16:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe that God is divine (by definition). Christians believe that Jesus is God who took human form for our salvation. Christians believe that God is One, yet in a sense Three also, and that the three are called the Father, the Son (who was born as Jesus) and the Holy Spirit; and yet there are not 3 Gods but one God.
So yes Jesus is divine as well as human, and the Holy Spirit is divine, and the Father is divine, and they are One God.
Is that clear? If you answered yes, you have an exceptional mind.
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2007-02-12 16:49:44 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Protestant) Christianity believes that God is divine. Christianity also believes that the God the Father is divine; whereas, it also believe that Jesus (God the Son) is divine; whereas, it also believes that God the Holy Spirit is also divine. This theology is known as the Trinity. Three persons; one God. It's not the easiest thing to explain, but what Christians believe.
However, I believe I'm getting closer to explaining it - though, I'd likely be called a heretic for my explanation.
2007-02-12 16:42:38 · answer #3 · answered by Sidewinder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlike most of the answers here, i don't beleive Jesus is God. I know him as God's firstborn son, the master worker who helped create us and was chosen to become human and die as a perfect man so that we would have a chance for forgiveness. I know many use John 1; 1 to prove they're one and the same but countless other scriptures show they're 2 distinct entitiies. Jesus never claimed to be God, only his son and even called himself the Son of Man. That's not a title i can imagine God taking. Daniel 7; 13, 14 gives a propehecy concerning the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of God. 1 Corinthians 11; 3 shows that God is above the Christ.
2007-02-12 16:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Despite the fact that He walked on earth as a human, Christ is the second part of the Triune God.
The duality of Christ's nature, human and divine, cannot be fully and definitively answered. If we could, we would possess divine minds ourselves. That said, we theologians have made progress at trying to understand the concepts of the Trinity of God and God the Son's role in that Trinitarian doctrine.
In short, Jesus’ human nature could be tempted. He thirsted, hungered, and at times was full of righteous anger. Yet He never sinned. If He did, we are all lost and God is not God. Christ also was God with all of God's attributes, and these two natures existed in a hypostatic (fundamental state) union.
I doubt I can improve upon the discussion of Christ's dual nature that is found at http://www.carm.org/doctrine/2natures.htm
I suggest you start there to dig deeper into this topic. It is not going to be answered to your satisfaction in this Forum.
2007-02-12 16:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians who are orthodox in faith believe that God is Triune--the Father, Son and Spirit. The trinity, in short, is the three persons of the Godhead, indivisible in nature, united in being and will.
Therefore, Jesus is God; Jesus is one with the Father, but Jesus is not indistinguishable in personhood from the Father.
Angelz---
The Son and Spirit, according to Christian orthodoxy, have not "acheived" oneness with God. Rather, they are equal in nature with the Father per their procession from the divinity of the Father.
2007-02-12 16:40:54 · answer #6 · answered by existdissolve 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the bible, the book of John tells us "in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God....the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." Jesus was God made flesh. We believe in the trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the holy spirit; one God in three "expressions".
2007-02-12 16:40:04 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus and The Holy Ghost are the only two entities that have achieved perfect oneness with God. God is Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy he is myriads and myriads of Holiness. They are Divine. They are Love. They are Mercy. They are all that is Good.
2007-02-12 16:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by Angelz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is our Father in Heaven and our ruler. He is the one that we answer to and talk with in prayer. Jesus was his only begotten Son and because he suffered for our sins he made it possible for us to return and live with our Father again.
So in essence our purpose on this earth is to return and live with God again, that is the goal and the only way to accomplish the goal is by accepting Christ and striving to live as he did so that we can be forgiven of our wrong doings and and return to live with God.
They are both devine, but for different reasons. Ultimately God is the one we worship. And Christ makes our worship mean something.
2007-02-12 16:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by jeff c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are asking, which is more important, the sun or the rays? Could you subtract the rays/light from the sun? The same with the Father and the Son, you can't.
2007-02-12 16:45:47 · answer #10 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is divine, He is the only way for us to ever get to God, No
man comes to the Father but through me.I worship God,as did
Jesus.He who sent me is greater than I.
2007-02-12 16:44:33 · answer #11 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋