When you say Jesus is God.. and just the spellings are different here, but what does it mean then that Jesus is the -Son- of God?
As Jesus is so reverent and a higher being.. why not God is son of Jesus?
Which God is this one?
Why God is given a higher status then him?
Kindly educate.
2007-04-28 05:40:12 · 12 answers · asked by ManhattanGirl 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well - it means that God chose to become human and come down among men.
For Christians - God and Jesus are not really two seperate beings. They are one in the same. There is no different they are God. Just in a different form, one might say. God does not have a higher status for Christians then Jesus.
The problem that the rest of the world has is that Jesus was a distinct person in the bible - he spoke to God, prayed to God and even said God was more powerful than him. He even said that God knew things that he didn't! Which would point to the fact that Jesus and God are really two different being - two different deities.
2007-04-28 05:50:27 · answer #1 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True Christians are NOT confused. They know the true identities of God and Jesus. At Ps. 83:18, Jehovah is called the Most High. How can he truly be the Most High if there are two others who are his equals?
At John 17:3, Jesus called his Father the only true God. The word "only" means: unique; one of a kind. So if Jesus' Father is unique as the true God, how could there be two others who are ALSO the true God?
Jesus never claimed to be God. As he told his opposers at John 10:36: "I am God's Son," NOT God himself.
Jesus, the only-begotten Son, had a beginning to his life. And Almighty God can rightly be called his Begetter, or Father, in the same sense that an earthly father, like Abraham, begets a son. (Hebrews 11:17) Hence, when the Bible speaks of God as the "Father" of Jesus, it means what it says—that they are two separate individuals. God is the senior. Jesus is the junior—in time, position, power, and knowledge.
TRUE Christians are not confused. They know that Jesus' Father Jehovah is the ONLY true God. They also know that Jesus is God's only-begotten Son. So where's the confusion?
2007-04-28 12:43:10 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist, who was a christian many many years ago.
The christians believe in a triune god (3-aspects in one). These aspects are represented by the father, the son, and the holy ghost (now spirit). Jesus was elevated into this triune concept by the first council of nicea (circa 325 AD) where it was debated between Athanasius and Arius as to the nature of Jesus, whether Jesus was the same substance of god, or merely made of similar substance of god.
If you read the Nicene creed, you will figure out who won.
2007-04-28 12:54:10 · answer #3 · answered by CC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manhattan,
Jesus was "GOD in the Flesh". HE was born of a virgin birth and fulfilled every Messianic Prophesy of the Old Testament. Jesus came so that you and I would have an opportunity to be in Heaven with the FATHER, SON, and the HOLY GHOST. The Judgment will be the time that we will have that opportunity. Are YOU ready? REad, study, and obey HIS WORD, the New Testament!
Thanks,
Eds
2007-04-28 12:45:35 · answer #4 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first words of the Bible: "In the beginning, God created..."
The first words of John's Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God."
This John, a close personal friend of Jesus in the flesh, later says "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."
Jesus recognized his own submission to God, the Father.
2007-04-28 12:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by davidsanchez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you can now understand the delusions of believers. You are starting to sound like one. My advice to you is, forget about that hocus-pocus BS and live in reality. There is no god and Jesus was fictional and all those that are claimed to have followed him in that fictional story. Believers are so confused because the story is not true, and they are too dumb to understand this, and they go round and round hoping, begging (that is what praying is all about) wishful thinking. Take a good look at a real believer, then ask yourself "Do I want to be like that person? Your answer will be- hell no!
2007-04-28 12:47:40 · answer #6 · answered by antonius 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the New Testament writers refer to "God", they usually mean "God the Father". You just have to go by the context.
However, they make clear that Jesus too is God (not a different god, but God; equal with, but not equivalent with, God the Father) by assigning him attributes that are unique to God (such as creator, savior, etc.).
2007-04-28 12:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mystery of the Holy Trinity: God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit: three Beings in One. God who sent his Son to redeem our sins, and the Holy Spirit who was added by heavy-duty theologians to try to explain some other "mumbo-jumbo". But it is indeed a mystery, a matter of faith and you just got to believe.....
2007-04-28 12:50:53 · answer #8 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it in this way. Jesus was God in human form. But God had to make a human form of Himself. So if you made a puppet of yourself, you would not call yourself, the "son" of the puppet. You would call your puppet your son.
2007-04-28 12:45:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one God the Trinitarian God.
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
2007-04-28 12:50:37 · answer #10 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋