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!
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." ---Luke 22:42
So basically, according to this verse, Jesus is praying to his God, and asking for his separate and higher will. Yet Jesus is supposed to be God 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?
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.
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. 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!
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." ---Luke 22:42
So basically, according to this verse, Jesus is praying to his God, and asking for his separate and higher will. Yet Jesus is supposed to be God 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?
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.
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. 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...
It helps if you make sure that you are born again, before you try to understand deep spiritual Truths about GOD.
1 Corinthians 2:10-14 (NIV)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
[SUP]11 [/SUP] For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
[SUP]12 [/SUP] We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
[SUP]13 [/SUP] This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
[SUP]14 [/SUP] The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
That is the only way you will ever gain a deep spiritual understanding of the Holy Trinity.
However, I will try to simplify it for you, to where you can begin to understand; and after you break down mourning over your sinfulness, and willingly surrender complete control of your life to Jesus Christ as LORD, meaning MASTER; you will understand a LOT MORE.
Most people who bring this question up, have either forgotten or have never been taught that Jesus Christ is both HUMAN and GOD in the Flesh.
John 1:1 (NIV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 (NIV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2 Corinthians 5:19 (NKJV) [SUP]19 [/SUP] that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
The HUMAN part of Jesus was purely HUMAN, while at the same time the Spirit in Christ was purely GOD HIMSELF; however GOD is OMNIPRESENT, therefore at no time could the totality of GOD cease to be Omnipresent and squeeze into the body of Christ.
In a nut shell, the Human part of Jesus (primarily as an example for us) prayed to the Spiritual part of Himself, especially the Part of Himself that functioned as the Father or Shotcaller of the GODhead. Trinity is NOT three Gods, but rather ONLY ONE GOD with a three fold nature of Father and Son and Holy Spirit:
Isaiah 43:3 (HCSB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] For I Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior, give Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 43:10-11 (HCSB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] “You are My witnesses”— ⌊this is⌋ the LORD’s declaration— “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Meand understand that I am He. No god was formed before Me, and there will be none after Me.
[SUP]11 [/SUP] I, I am Yahweh, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Luke 2:10-11 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;
[SUP]11 [/SUP] for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
CHRIST THEN is part of GOD, and the ONLY reason that I say part of GOD, is that I am counting only SPIRIT WHO is within the physical human body of Jesus Christ. When I consider that the SPIRIT in CHRIST is the OMNIPRESENT GOD of the Universe and Heaven, THEN I have to admit that when I do not stop at the skin of Jesus, then HE CERTAINLY IS THE TOTALITY OF GOD. REMEMBER, there are NOT three SPIRITS that make up GOD, but rather ONE SPIRIT Who has a THREE-FOLD NATURE.
Colossians 2:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
I mentioned that the FATHER was the part of GOD who's primary function is to be the Shotcaller of the GODhead, therefore I must also mention:
The SON is the part of GOD who's primary function has always been to physically carry out the will of the FATHER.
The Holy Spirit then is the part of GOD who's primary function is to enable us to do the will of the FATHER, starting with, BELIEVING IN HIM.
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