...Why did he bother praying in the Olive garden? Why did he ever bother praying at all?
And why did he ask IF possible, take this trial from me... but thy will be done? Is this a case of God not quite able to make up his mind?
2007-06-18 10:54:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, he was fully human and fully divine. His humanity was important. He not only brought God to us...he brought us to God.
He is God, but he is the Son and not the Father. He experienced life as a human man, with temptation (as shown in his 40 days in the desert after his baptism) and in his suffering and death on the cross. This person, sinless because of his divine nature...was no less a human man. He prayed because this was his communication with his Father.
He wasn't just God hanging out in a human shell...he was a human being...in all that it entails to be a human being. He had to experience and fully live the life that we do, in order to be our perfect sacrifice.
2007-06-18 11:03:51 · answer #1 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently Olive Garden was catering the Last Supper, so he was praying that they would not screw up his order, being his last meal and all. Judas, the accountant of the group, realized that the petty cash fund was gone, so he had to sell Jesus out for 30 pieces of silver to pay for dinner. He figured Jesus would call down some Wrath of God (tm) and run the soldiers off, but since Jesus had been letting the Apostles drink his blood, he was very weak and unable to think straight. It was all downhill after that.
2007-06-18 10:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had to be a man with the thoughts, mind and body of a man which experienced temptations and pain. Jesus said that He only did what He saw the Father doing. The Old Testament states that Jesus would be a Branch of God and Jesus said He was the Son of God, Son of man and God.
He said, "I and the Father are One." "If you've seen Me you've seen the Father."
What you do is limit God. God can be many things. God chose to empty that Branch of Himself to become a real man like human beings. God who can speak this world into existence can do anything. When He returns He'll speak and Satan will be bound for 1000 years and evil will be dealt with. When Christ says what can be shaken will be shaken, sin will fall off this earth. Whatever is of evil or Satan or the ungodly will be removed from this earth.
2007-06-18 11:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, in the Son, knew that He would be separated physically, not spiritually, from His Father, but continued to be one with God via the Holy Spirit/Ghost. Jesus never doubted that the will of the Father must be done, but who would want to endure the sin of the entire world on one's body.
God knows that His true nature and substance is far beyond our ability to understand and comprehend, but the Trinity is truly a philosophical marvel in its accuracy of what a truly perfect being God is. I'll never know what God is really like until I am converted into a form that can see and perceive Him, but God gave us the Trinity to help us "get our arms around" His nature.
2007-06-18 11:09:38 · answer #4 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is God's son. He was praying to God in the "Olive Garden".
He's not crazy, he wasn't talking to himself...
2007-06-18 10:57:32 · answer #5 · answered by Kier22_2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As you are of man, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are of God. While man is created in God's image, Jesus is created OF God, as his son. He is therefore divine and infallible. Don't be mistaken though, had Jesus decided not to die on the cross, he could have spared himself unilaterally. But His love of mankind (and you), and obedience to His father's will were his whole purpose for being.
2007-06-18 11:16:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "trinity" always confuses those who don't understand. He prayed because he was praying to his Father in heaven. He was asking God to keep him from suffering. But he realized that God had to let things transpire the way they did. God knew exactly what He was doing.
2007-06-18 10:58:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the Son of God. That is why he prayed. He went through what we go through so he kept praying. And and angel strengthened him.
2007-06-18 11:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because He was on earth. And that made His limits earthly, human limits. He had no special "powers" that any Christian can't have as well. If you accept Christ, the Holy Spirit is with you and you can do anything that Jesus did, including raising people from the dead. Jesus was acting out of His human essence.
2007-06-18 10:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, but it is a great EXAMPLE of what to do when faced with a great trial. Of course, He did serve as an example to us, among other wonderful things He did.
2007-06-18 10:59:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋