How is it that it is alright to have a co-eternal, co-equal, God in his own right pray to another God (co-equal, co-eternal), but not alright to have the nondivine flesh (humanity) of Christ pray to the Father (Who was in Christ reconciling ...etc)?
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Don't know why people have such a hard time with this one. But I think its a little lopsided myself... I mean, which one better states what the Apostles believed before the concept of the Trinity came to be... Just like I cannot understand why anyone would say that a plural noun with a sigular verb can mean there is more than one of that nouns...
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...you lost me
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Your question is incorrect in a couple of ways. Who says it wasn't all right for the humanity of Christ to pray; who says the flesh of Christ was nondivine? Christ is the God-man and in the Incarnation the two natures became that God-man. All these questions were debated and settled before the end of the fourth century.
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It's right in exactly the same way that you can come on a website and ask this question - you believe it's your right and they believe it's their right. And guess what - you're all right.
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Why do you think questions like this were not put to Jesus by the disciples or others around him when they were always questioning him wanting to learn from his every act and claim (see below for just a few examples)? Simple, because these sort of questions were not appropriate with what Jesus repeatedly said he was (“son of man”) or what they understood him to be (“they counted him as a prophet” Matthew 14:5 and “a man approved of God” Acts 2:22) or what he was teaching (“if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” Matthew 19:17). These are valid questions that need answering by those who devised or follow the new religion built around creeds not uttered by Christ. A religion built, not around the teachings of Jesus but, around the imagined nature of Christ. These were the sort of things that were unclear and were asked of Jesus: “Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?” Matthew 11:3 “Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?” Matthew 17:10 “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?” Matthew 12:10
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I'm not a christian. I don't have to be happy with it.
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