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Your first response to this question is going to be, "He was praying to God, obviously, who else?" So I know this sounds like an odd question, but I mean it from a completely different angle than you might have thought.
Consider this for a second here... really...
We as Christians believe (by majority, and myself included) that Jesus is God.
Yet Jesus prayed to God, and even asked God for His will instead of his own in Luke 22:42!
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet [/FONT]not my will, but yours[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] be done." ---Luke 22:42[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So basically, according to this verse, Jesus is [/FONT]praying to his God[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif], and asking for his [/FONT]separate and higher will[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]. Yet Jesus is supposed to [/FONT]be God[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] in my book! If Jesus is God, then why is He praying to God? Is He praying to Himself? And why is he asking God for His separate and higher will, yet not his own, if he is God?[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]If one thing is made painfully clear from this verse, it is that Jesus believed the person he was talking to to be greater, higher, and wiser than Himself - as well as possessing a separate and higher will altogether. But I believe that Jesus is God, so how can I reconcile my belief with the verse which seems to refute it.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Is Jesus talking to himself? The more I read it the verse, the more my belief in the Trinity seems to look less and less Biblical. [/FONT]Note that I am not trying to refute the belief in the Trinity here, but this is the one verse in the Bible that shakes my faith in it's scriptural authenticity. Either Jesus was talking to Himself and experiencing a split personality, or He was talking to Someone else. What's going on in this verse? Who was He talking to? It's obviously not Himself because the Entity has a separate opinion (according to Jesus), yet it has to be Himself because Jesus is God and there's no one else to pray to.
Now my mind is fried...
Consider this for a second here... really...
We as Christians believe (by majority, and myself included) that Jesus is God.
Yet Jesus prayed to God, and even asked God for His will instead of his own in Luke 22:42!
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet [/FONT]not my will, but yours[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] be done." ---Luke 22:42[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So basically, according to this verse, Jesus is [/FONT]praying to his God[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif], and asking for his [/FONT]separate and higher will[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]. Yet Jesus is supposed to [/FONT]be God[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] in my book! If Jesus is God, then why is He praying to God? Is He praying to Himself? And why is he asking God for His separate and higher will, yet not his own, if he is God?[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]If one thing is made painfully clear from this verse, it is that Jesus believed the person he was talking to to be greater, higher, and wiser than Himself - as well as possessing a separate and higher will altogether. But I believe that Jesus is God, so how can I reconcile my belief with the verse which seems to refute it.[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Is Jesus talking to himself? The more I read it the verse, the more my belief in the Trinity seems to look less and less Biblical. [/FONT]Note that I am not trying to refute the belief in the Trinity here, but this is the one verse in the Bible that shakes my faith in it's scriptural authenticity. Either Jesus was talking to Himself and experiencing a split personality, or He was talking to Someone else. What's going on in this verse? Who was He talking to? It's obviously not Himself because the Entity has a separate opinion (according to Jesus), yet it has to be Himself because Jesus is God and there's no one else to pray to.
Now my mind is fried...