How do Trinitarians make sense of John 17:3?

Question

John 17:3 depicts Jesus as praying "And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."

Answer 1

you can´t do that not only with that verse but the rest of 238 times the name of God appears in the NT.

By the way where in the bible said "The Son is the only true God"? I haven´t seen that.

Answer 2

The Father IS the only true God. Jesus Christ, the one the Father sent, is also the only true God. And the Holy Spirit is the only true God. That's the Trinity! That is the God of Christianity.

Answer 3

In Trinitarianism, both the Father and the Son are the same God--i.e. the one true God. So it would make sense to say, "The Father is the only true God," as well as saying, "The Son is the only true God," since they are both the same God. So "The Father is the only true God," does not imply that Jesus is NOT God unless you assume unitarianism from the get go, and if you assume unitarianism in order to prove that Jesus is not God, then you're begging the question.

Answer 4

"I and my Father are one." John 10:30. In John 17:3 it makes great sense. As you say Jesus is praying. He is giving praise to the Father as the only true God. We all do that when we pray. But we also know that Jesus is God.

Answer 5

What is your question? This verse does not contradict the Trinity, which has been taught by the Church since the beginning. In verse 1, Jesus refers to the Father and himself as Son. This whole passage (verses 1-26) strongly supports the idea that there is ony one Church of unity. Those who teach such heresies such as no Trinity are part of disunity and are therefore not part of the Church that Christ prayed for!

Answer 6

The name Jehovah literally means “He Causes to Become.” (Genesis 2:4) Thus, the very meaning of God’s name calls attention to his Creatorship and his purpose. In reality, knowing and using the name Jehovah is an earmark of true religion. Jesus clearly recognized that fact. Referring to his followers, he said to God in prayer: “I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them.” John 17:26.

The Scriptures make it clear that Jesus was entirely human from his birth until his death. John did not say that the Word was merely clothed with flesh. He “became flesh” and was not part flesh and part God. If Jesus had been human and divine at the same time, it could not have been said that he had been “made a little lower than angels.”

If Jesus had been both God and man when on the earth, why did he repeatedly pray to Jehovah? Paul wrote: “In the days of his flesh Christ offered up supplications and also petitions to the One who was able to save him out of death, with strong outcries and tears, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear.” Hebrews 5:7.

That Jesus was not partly a spirit when on the earth is proved by Peter’s statement that Christ was “put to death in the flesh, but, made alive in the spirit.” (1 Peter 3:18) Only because Jesus was wholly human could he have experienced what imperfect people experience and thus become a sympathetic high priest. Wrote Paul: “We have as high priest, not one who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in all respects like ourselves, but without sin.”,

As “the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world,” Jesus “gave himself a corresponding ransom for all.” In that way, Jesus bought back exactly what Adam had lost, perfect, eternal human life. Since God’s justice required ‘soul for soul,’ Jesus thus had to be what Adam was originally, a perfect human, not a God-man.

After Jesus died, he was in the tomb for about three days. Who resurrected him? Since he was dead, he could not resurrect himself. And if he was not really dead, then he could not have paid the ransom for Adam’s sin. But he did die, and was nonexistent for about three days. The apostle Peter tells us who resurrected Jesus: “God resurrected him by loosing the pangs of death.” (Acts 2:24) The superior, God Almighty, raised the lesser one, his beloved Son, Jesus, from the dead. To illustrate: When Jesus resurrected Lazarus from the dead, who was superior? Jesus was superior, since he could bring Lazarus back from the dead. It was the same when God resurrected Jesus. God was superior, since he could bring Jesus back from the dead.

Jesus could not possibly be God himself, for Jesus was created by God. "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" King James Bible Emphatic Diaglott is the same.

He is called the “firstborn,” the “only-begotten.” When a child is the firstborn, the only-begotten, it never means that the child is the same as the father. It always means that there are two different personalities involved, father and child.

Answer 7

The rest of 17:3-5, states "I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work You gave me to do. And now Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."

This is Jesus praying for Himself.

It simply shows me that Jesus is God in the flesh. Jesus is God's name as Savior, and Christ is His title-the Messiah, the King of Israel.

He is the only true God. Jesus was and is 100% true God. Jesus emptied Himself of His prerogatives of deity. He laid aside His glory. To know God, is to know Jesus.

Answer 8

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I have yet to see an avid trinitarian counter this publications proof that the trinity is a false teaching.

Answer 9

I don't even see why I have to make sense of that...