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How come Jesus prayed to God and asked him to take this cup from him(That he would'nt have to die on the cross is my understanding)? I am really trying to understand all this but it is very confusion to me. I need all the help I can get!
Thanks again
Thanks again
Hi, Bawilli;
I struggled with this question for years until Jesus enlightened me that, being fully God and fully man, the flesh part of God, Jesus -- the man part -- had to pray to God just as do we. Just as we are flesh, Jesus, being man (God in the flesh), did not know what the Father knew and he had to pray. In the following Scripture, we can transpose Jesus in place of Elias. Even though Jesus was God, when he was incarnated in the flesh, he became subject to the same passions (feelings) just as we experience feelings.
James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
When Jesus taught, He was teaching as God, and knew all the Father's will and thoughts.
Matthew 7:29 For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.
I hope this helps, Bawilli.
Blessings ><(((:>
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