Can God Pray?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by seekerman

Yes, I'm familiar with the what I call the 'switcheroo nature'theology of prax. In that view, Jesus is God when one needs Him to be and not God when one needs Him to be. The slippery slope of the natures view though doesn't address in interpersonal actions between Jesus and His Father and God but rather presents a God who is a multi-personality schizophrenic God that interacts with Himself as if He's more than one person, one of His selves believes the other to be His Father and another of His selves believes that He's His own Son and dies and ascends to Himself who wasn't dead.

The 'natures' view simply does not explain the anointing, suffering, death, burial and ascension of human nature Jesus to Himself, who is the Father God nature Jesus, who is continually presented as separate and distinct and the source of power and authority of the human nature Jesus. Kinda convoluted I know, but that's how I understand it. Well, no, I don't understand it.

That view may be correct, my view may be wrong. I think we all have our view of God that's based on what we honestly believe to be correct and go to scripture, giving this passage, and a rebuttal from another passage. Battling scripture I call it.

I understand your problem with this but I think it's misguided. Follow me for a moment. Take a snake and a cow. Clearly those are two very different things. You should not deny that they are clearly not the same thing. Instead embrace it. You have one animal with the body and everything else of a snake and another animal with the body and everything else of a cow. The cow may even step on the snake one day and the snake may even bite the cow.

Now imagine that behind the scenes in a place you couldn't see sense or detect that there was one thing which was acting and appearing like both the snake and cow at the same time. Except imagine it wasn't an act. Imagine that one thing actually existed as the snake and cow. That's prax's conception of Jesus being man and God. Jesus is the person that exists in one form as God and in another as man. He isn't tricking us or acting like one or the other. He actually is both. These are actual interactions just as the snake and cow interacted. Do you understand?