Be careful When you refer to the Father and the son. There was only one God (Jesus). The Father is spirit and heaven is in you (It's in the book)--also around you and through you. They became one in the flesh. Head (Jesus), Brain (Father, Spirit).
When Jesus prayed to the Father he was setting and example of how to communicate with him and maybe he was just listening to others plans for him by reading their minds. When he was tempted by the devil he was showing that in truth and the word of God you beat back the devil. Maybe it was Satan who didn't believe that Jesus was God. Satan doesn't know what God is doing he just knew that God was coming sometime in the flesh. Why 40 days and nights? Maybe God wanted to teach Satan a lesson and beat him at his own game and took His time doing so. We don't know exactly what happened.
Remember Jesus is God--there is only one God, not two--there wasn't a Father somewhere else guiding him. Maybe he refered to himself as a son because allthough his intelligence was all there--all that he is wasn't. He is everything and everybody.There are some preachers and teachers that refer to the Father and Son as two different beings. Can anyone refute or clarify these issues? God bless you
Huldah
Peace with you
Please do no longer be confused. Let's start with the most basic one.
John 3:16 Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God send His Son, Jesus.
Mat 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Mat 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Jesus had to be baptised for our understanding with the Holy Spirit as a command given by the Father.
Joh 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
The Son of God did nothing out of Himself, but followed the commands and instructions of His father, because that is how He knew how to do it perfectly without sin, since He was from the beginning and without sin.
He wanted to teach us how, yes. To understand that we must pray and listen to God.
For only those who listen and obey the Will of the Father will enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
And when we go out, we should not just baptise in the Name of God...but
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
So you see to clarify:
1Jn 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
1Jn 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one.
1Jn 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one.
1Jn 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
1Jn 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
1Jn 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jn 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1Jn 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
So in a sense you are right. There is only One God. But do not get confused. There is also three persons.
The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost.
So they are three yet One. However, it was only the Word that became flesh.
Understood?