Sin, Life & Death

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Originally Posted by jfrog

God does not need to be two persons for the Son to talk to the Father. I am not trying to assert this. I am trying to assert that in this oneness view, Jesus prayed to Jesus. This does not disprove oneness, but it is a logical consequence of oneness doctrine.

Oh, your point is Jesus prayed to Jesus. Okay. I agree. What is so wrong about that, though? Why is that so shocking? Answer: our comparison with human persons.

Jesus as a man prayed to Jesus as God. And He so completely manifested as a man that it was genuine humanity genuinely needing Deity. So, since it is humanity genuinely needing deity, it is not as people think it is to say Jesus prayed to Jesus.

That sounds odd to us because, AGAIN, we are comparing this to a human person. Since it sounds odd to see a human person talk to himself in this same manner, we assume it is odd for God to do that. But we cannot perfectly manifest as another "species" and then speak to that other one like God did.

We're so biased due to our assumptions that make us base everything form OUR perspective. And it makes us feel odd about something we really cannot conceive in our understanding properly enough.