how can jesus be jesus AND god?

Question

ok ok i saw this question like a million times already.
but i mean when jesus was on earth, does that mean god was not in heaven? so if jesus had a baby would it be god too? that mean god would be his own grandfather which is the coolest thing ever!

i think i also want to know if jesus was here was god in heaven? and also if jesus and god were in the same room and u were in it too, who would u pray to??

Answer 1

what I want to know is, if Jesus was god, then why would he sacrifice himself to himself?

Answer 2

He can't be the same person. That would mean that when He prayed when He was alive, he was praying to himself. That doesn't make sense. Also, when He saw Mary Magdeline right after he was ressurected, He told her not to touch Him because he hadn't accended to His Father yet (John 20:17). God is the Father of Christ, literally. I believe they are two seperate personages, both have bodies of flesh and bone.

There are a few times when Christ shows that He and the Father and the Holy Spirit are different, distinct personages. One was at His baptism. After he was baptized, God's voice was heard from heaven saying "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased". Also, the Holy Spirit descended like a dove (Mark 1:9-11). If they were the same person, or same entity, I don't think Christ would talk about himself in such a way. Or Stephen seeing Christ on the right hand of the Father in Acts 7:56. Jesus also said "My Father is greater than I" in John 14:28. There are many other things that are said by Christ that shows they are seperate in being, but one in purpose.

Answer 3

Jesus isn't God, it wasn't even a consideration of the early church until about 1000 AD. Then the early church fathers had a big fight, and essentially killed off all the Christians who believed Jesus was a mortal man. It was wrong them, it is wrong now, and really what difference does it make? Descended from God, or actually God, a child of God or a part of God like we all are...

Answer 4

Jesus and God are separate beings. How could Jesus after he died on earth resurrect himself to heaven? Doesn't make sense.

Answer 5

Jesus is a special case. He has two Natures. He is 100% God AND 100% Man. But the Spirit of the Lord can be in all places at once.

Not sure about grandfather, but Jesus IS, in my opinion, His own Father.

If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.....

Answer 6

Well then for the 10 millionth answer...!

Jesus is God's only begotten Son in the form of man but the Father's DNA in His veins. Perfectly and completely both. Jesus is the Word made flesh. God's Word is Jesus. God's Words are Life. You could not breath unless God granted you that breath just like He made Adam a living soul and gave life to everything by speaking it into existence. God's spoken Word produces that which we can see as well as that which we can't. The reason God sent His Son is so that mankind could be redeemed from sin. Jesus is not His own Father but is One with the Father and equal to Him because the Father gave all power to Him and all the fulness of the Godhead dwells in Him. God is capable of doing things just like He wants. A carnal mind can hardly grasp such things but to be spiritually minded is life.

Answer 7

Actually, the official Church teaching on the divinity of Christ is that he is both fully human and fully divine. In Catholic Dogma, this is known as a "Mystery". It's something they cannot explain, yet they believe is truth. The Council of Nicea held during the reign of Constantine established the full divinity/humanity of Christ.

Answer 8

Son of David...Son of Man...Son of God

First you make a common mistake: The Church (The New Testament Church) did not claim that Christ Jesus was the total revelation of God.

Scripture says (in essence) that through Him God has revealed as much about Himself as we can comprehend.

So it isn't a game of Clue. First comes the acceptance that God is ultimately unknowable, beyond total comprehension.

So, when we talk about Jesus of Nazareth, in our minds he is confined in that human form.

This is what most who accepted Him as Messiah thought.

They called Him by the title, "Son of David", giving honor to His human bloodline, but still rejected the idea that He was God.

The Greek word that is used to describe Christ Jesus as "Son" of God is not the word that means "baby boy". It is a word that is best translated "heir".

Christ Jesus is the Heir of God, inheriting all that belongs to the Father. Likewise, in being called "Son of Man'' he is the heir to humanity, just as one is called an heir to a great fortune.

Man is the inheritance. Christ Jesus, The Son, The LOGOS is One with The Father. In taking on human flesh, He showed us the example of ulitmate humility, even to death on the cross.

Greek Orthodox theology teaches that one cannot fully comprehend the Holy Trinity with the rationalistic mind. Augustine of Hippo was the first major writer to attempt to solve every mystery of The Church, and his virus has spread through Rome to the Reformation and beyond.

Every Protestant has inherited this mindset from Rome. They find it impossible to accept a mystery (communion) as a mystery, and do everything they can to rationalize it until it is bereft of The Holy Spirit.

Here is the best statement about the Godhead that I have ever heard, and even it falls short because God is unknowable:

God, The Father, The Source, The Cosmic Mind could never have been without thought. The Thought of The Father is The Word or LOGOS, just as I cannot type these words without first having them form in my head.

When God "said" Let There Be Light", He spoke forth The LOGOS as The Word, and through Him (The Word) all of creation came into being (John 1).

The Holy Spirit is likened to "the breath" upon which The Word was carried from The Father.

Again, this is not rational, but rather a way of allowing ourselves to accept mystery.

For those who would say that The Bible never teaches The Holy Trinity, we would point you towards the Baptism of Christ, call Epiphany by Rome and call "Theophany" by The Greeks and all of The Eastern Communion of Orthodox Christians.

You have--in one point in time and space--a revelation of The Father (His Voice), The Son (in the water, submitting to the human hand of Saint John The Forerunner) and The Holy Spirit, descending as a dove, making clear to all that this was The Annointed of God.

When you give up your mind to God, it will become clearer.

Answer 9

i dont know, supposedly only one God is believed in in Christianity. Why would God stoop down as low as to a mere human? He is our Creator, that is like the CEO of lets say Burger King starts working as a cashier at some Burger King just because he wanted to. No, God is not Jesus...

Answer 10

The same way that you and God are one too. Everything is God. Not just one man that lived 2000 years ago. Don't fall into that Christian mind trap.

Answer 11

Because he was God before-- as in the Word of God. He created all things. He is 'the same essence of God'. and thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

So you need to understand that Jesus is only the name of the man Jesus. He is known as the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and many other names. He pre-existed before he was in Mary's womb, ' emptied himself' and became Jesus of Nazareth.