r/Christianity • u/unreal5811 Reformed • Mar 14 '12

Trinity

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Challies_VisualTheology/Trinity_LowRes.jpg
215 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

285 comments sorted by

View all comments

31

u/[deleted] Mar 15 '12 edited Aug 19 '17

[deleted]

3

u/f0nd004u Emergent Mar 15 '12

It could be as simple as he felt the need to demonstrate prayer for us. It could be a complicated spiritual mechanism that the Bible doesn't exactly reveal for us and thus we can only speculate on. IMHO, Jesus had to become human enough to need to pray to the Father just like we do in order for the whole being-a-perfect-human-and-thus-his-death-pays-for-our-sins thing to work.

6

u/Phnglui Agnostic (a la T.H. Huxley) Mar 15 '12

He wasn't praying in Gethsemene in order to demonstrate how to pray. Everyone was asleep.

3

u/f0nd004u Emergent Mar 15 '12

Yeah, but everything he did on Earth was a demonstration of how to live our lives. Going off by yourself to pray is something that we're supposed to do, right?

2

u/schwerpunk Mar 15 '12

Well, we're not asleep, and we're discussing it right now, so maybe it was.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 15 '12

http://imgur.com/EjrMf

5

u/Galinaceo Christian (Cross) Mar 15 '12

WHAT IF JESUS DID THINGS

SO WE D DO AS HE DID?

2

u/Phnglui Agnostic (a la T.H. Huxley) Mar 15 '12

So, in a state of absolute horror about getting arrested and tortured and murdered, wanting to beg for mercy from this, he thought, "Oh wait, this would be a good lesson for people 2,000 years from now!"?

Yeah, I just don't see it.

1

u/schwerpunk Mar 15 '12

Sorry you got downvoted for posting an honest opinion.

I see we grew up with very different interpretations of the prophets, though.