How can Jesus be fully god and fully human while he was on Earth?

Question

My main objections to saying that Jesus was fully God while on Earth is the following:

If Jesus was fully God, who did he pray to?
If Jesus was fully God, does that God has a body?
If Jesus was fully God, does that mean God can be tempted to sin?

Ok, just some thoughts, I am interested in your response. This is something I have been thinking about.

Answer 1

Okay, to address this you need to first approach this from the Trinity. God (the Father) is the figure-head. So the overall incarnation of God is in this form and it is the superior form. Just like a father in the traditional family is also a husband. Same person, different roles. The Husband would be the figure-head, with the father being second and the provider being third. All one though. Jesus' role in the trinity is the Saviour, so He came to earth in human form because it was the only was He could take on sin. Notice He was born of a virgin, becuase original sin is passed on through the father not the mother (Adam brought death into the world, Eve only brought in painful child birth). This is how Jesus was able to conduct Himself as He did. When He was on the cross the sins of the world were placed upon Him and at that point we hear Him cries out "Father, Father, why have you forsaken Me." This is the moment when the relationship between Jesus the Man and God the Father was truly severed due to sin. This is Jesus' first and only encounter with what we feel day to day in our hearts. So Jesus' prayed in the fleshly form becuase He was flesh, and being here He was not physically in the presence of God (so in heaven there will be no praying or churches). I believe this essentially addresses the first two questions you posed. For the third, God and Sin cannot exist in the same environment. This is why Jesus felt that God had foresaken Him, He had never been absent the feeling of God's presence. Sin isn't a specific thing. Its a frame of heart. It actually is an ancient military term for archers. If you were in the Colluseum in Rome and you were an archer who missed his mark the entire crowd would roar with laughter, screaming "Sinner!" To sin means to miss the mark. The mark being that of a life with the center of your thoughts and heart is the will of God; which we were all designed to do. When you operate outside of that, you fall short of what you were meant to do and be and are therefore sinning. So God cannot be tempted to sin, because sinning is everything outside of God. If God went forward and commited sin, then we would never know becuase it would be something He would ordain as something righteous cause He did it. And it would be listed in all the cronicles of history as something He had ordained (so to speak). Hope this helps. Awesome questions!

Answer 2

Jesus prayed to his Father, because prayer is how you communicate with heaven.

Jesus has a body because God fashioned a body for him, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Jesus also has a human soul, to go with his human body. Without a soul, Jesus could not have been truly human.

Satan tempted all men to sin. What satan didn't realize is that Jesus is God, and so Jesus is totally incapable of committing a sin.

There's some things that even God cannot do.

For more on this, go here:

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc.htm

Answer 3

Jesus was fully God and fully human. The two natures were in the same vessel, but did not mix. Actually, there are too many scriptures to cite in a small forum such as this. There is no one 'magic' scripture that explains this truth. I perceive some errors in your understanding just by seeing the question. God the Father did not raise the human Jesus from death, Jesus raised himself. ( "destroy this temple and in three days, I will raise it again." John 2:19). The God aspect of Jesus did not die, God, by definition is eternal. He can not die. If you have any other specific questions, feel free to e-mail. Thanks for asking.

Answer 4

I don't know how. I do believe He was what the bible teaches in the book of John: God made flesh.

While Jesus was on earth, He prayed to the Father in heaven.

No God does not have a body. God is spirit. It is Jesus who took on the form of man and walked the earth.

The bible says that Jesus was in every way tempted as we are, but was without sin.

Answer 5

Hey!
Jesus was not fully God. He was human, and he prayed to God the Father, as he used to be God the Son. Jesus was also tempted to sin, but he never gave in. Jesus has been the only human on the face of this planet to not ever sin, and he died on the cross for us. For more information you could turn to the last chapters of the Old Testament and the first chapters of the New Testament.
Hoped that helped!

Answer 6

Jesus was God in the flesh. This is the only way you will see God, because God is Spirit and a consuming fire. God became flesh so we can know Him. God emptied Himself as Jesus, but at any moment He could have called His angels and abandoned that flesh and became a consuming fire. If God had abandoned that flesh and not gone to the Cross He would have left us dead in sin.

To answer you, God the Son prayed to God the Father.
The body of Jesus is the only way to see God
The Word says that he was tempted in every way as we are but He did not sin. God would not submit to sin.

Answer 7

Because He is God He can do that.

Jesus was the perfect example and the teacher while here. He taught us how to have a personal relationship with God.

Yes, Jesus had a body when He was here as human. So, God had His body.

God did not die, Jesus died, but He conquered the death. He is alive!

When Jesus was here, He was tempted to sin, but He passed the test. He never sinned.

Answer 8

Yeah i have thought about this a lot too because the bible is not very clear on it. but it is something like he is fully man because he is in a human body but his spirit is a part of God so he is also fully God. that is how i think it is. And who he prays to is his other part that is in heaven, God.

Answer 9

Jues prayed to God the Father [He is God the son, and there is also God the Holy Spirit]. Jesus, who is GOD had a body just like us. In fact, He was just like us in every way, except that He cannot sin.

Answer 10

These questions have been pondered for centuries and probably the best response is "Its one of those things where you just have to believe". That may sound odd, but faith is key when it comes to Christianity. My analogy for the Trinity is the human. A Human consists of a body, a mind and a conscience. They can all be defined independantly, but are so intertwined that they always seem to be working together. Its also kind of like the identical twin phenomenon, they are the same person, only not. Like I said before, its very confusing and understanding it probably goes beyond man's comprehension.