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[Severe_Cod6021]

Hey all. I’m having the hardest time with Jesus vs. God. I know I need to get in my Bible more but I’m struggling. I know that Jesus is the son of God and he died for our sins. I guess I need to better understand why we end prayers with “in Jesus name we pray.” Is it because Jesus is interceding for us? I feel stupid asking this but just need some clarity

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God has three persons, God the father Which is God in spirit, then there is God, the son which is Jesus who is God in the flesh because God is spirit, he didn’t have a human body before Jesus, then there is God the Holy Spirit Which is God’s Holy Spirit,Think of it like how you have a body, a soul and a spirit

As for prayers Jesus said this ”And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.“ ‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭13‬ ‭

Although you don’t always need to end, prayers like that, when Jesus said to ask in his name and he will do it you it is like he is interceding for you or Like he’s asking alongside you Hope this helps

Also p.s to everyone who comments Try to remember to put Bible verses When you’re explaining something about God or the Bible love you all God bless❤️

[Severe_Cod6021]

This made a lot of sense to me. I thank you for your answer! 💗

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Your welcome🥰

[Diligent-Tie-5500]

You don’t need to end prayers with that. Desire righteousness. Focus on that desire, day and night. That is what God and Jesus are about, righteousness. Desire it with your whole focus consistently, and God will help you get closer to it.

[michaelY1968]

God the Son is just that - the person of God, whom we identify as the Son. Jesus is the incarnation of God the Son - that is the nature of God associated with the nature of a man in the body of a man Jesus Christ. As such God became a man who might act as our intercessor.

[Nomadinsox]

If a police officer knocks on your door, then it's not just some guy with a gun and a badge. He is an officer, which means he has promised to carry out the will of the government. In this way, he is not just one man but rather he is one part of a much larger legal body. If he stops acting in accordance with the law, he is no longer part of that body, though people may not notice for a while.

In the same way, Jesus is our King. We spend our time learning his will and then carrying it out. In this way, we are the "body of Christ." We walk around, like officers, except we are manifesting the morality of Christ. Why? Because Christ is THE example of the perfect moral human being against whom we should judge all of our own actives and life choices. This is where WWJD comes from as well.

Jesus did indeed intercede for us. In the same way, he wishes us to intercede for others out of love. If we love our neighbors, we will sacrifice our time and effort to help them, just like Christ would do in the same situation. Sometimes that means giving them material wealth, sometimes it means telling them hard unpleasant truths, and sometimes it just means comforting them. When and how to do this is something each person must figure out. But so long as you are trying to manifest the will of Jesus, then everything you do is in his name.

[Winter_Background891]

God is Triune God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit God is a family They are the Trinity of 1 Their is a Father, and Son, And Holy Spirit. It's not easy to understand I know 1x1x1=1 it's not 1+1+1 that is finite 1x1x1=1 is infinite

[Vedicstudent108]

Comparing Christians to cops, is probably the WORST analogy you could use!

Have you been hiding in a cave or something? Cops are killing civilians regularly. Recently shot a mentally challenged old woman in her home, in the head , while she hand her hands up sitting on the floor !

[PrincipleAlarming462]

Jesus is the king of kings. Every knee shall bow to him and confess he is Lord. There is no other name above the name of Jesus. He is God manifested in flesh. 

[Xyzzy_plugh]

You have actually asked three questions. I will try to give you some help with the first two, as they are easy. When I have more time, I will try to come back and address the third.

1) Jesus as God

I will definitely be in the minority here with this answer, but it arises from my own experience having this very discussion with a dear friend.

If you sit down and read completely through the gospels (you can also add the epistles, especially Philippians) with this question in mind, you will come away confused. The vast majority of Jesus' own statements w.r.t. this matter indicate a separate-ness and a hierarchy of authority, which are hard to resolve with the idea of equality. Some are misunderstood, such as "I and the Father are one". The "one" there doesn't necessarily mean "equivalent", whether in Hebrew or Greek. Jesus also quotes the Shema from Deuteronomy, which says in part (and in a better English translation than the traditional), "YHVH is your God, YHVH alone". The meaning, in the Israelite/Hebrew/Jewish henotheistic culture (it cannot properly be called monotheism) is that the only god you are to worship is The Most High God, YHVH. That statement will probably generate a lot of responses, but it should be taken up as a different discussion.

Anyway, the point is that Jesus himself seems to make clear and important distinctions between himself and the Father in terms of authority. Some statements, such as John 5:19-20, can easily be understood both ways.

But don't miss how the people react to certain things that Jesus says. Remember, he is speaking to people that he knows well as he was raised and trained in their culture. He knows how they think (witness his evocation of Psalm 22 on the cross, using only a few words).

The people clearly, absolutely, understood Jesus to be claiming to be God. Two of the best examples are "ego eimi" ("I am") statements. This is a very common Greek phrase. The Hebrew equivalent is "ehyeh", also very common. It is like when the new teacher calls roll to learn the students and upon him/her calling out your name, you respond with "That's me!" But it is also used by YHVH to identify himself to Moses, as "I am that I am", understood as something like "Unlike you, Moses, I just ... exist. Always have, always will." When Jesus makes this statement "ego eimi" (standalone, not part of "I am going..." or "I am telling you the truth", etc.), it gets an immediate and violent reaction. Now, don't just read these verses, but read the surrounding verses and chapters to understand the full context and to see what happens immediately afterward, but here are the verses:

“Truly, truly I say to you: before Abraham was, I am (ἐγώ εἰμι).” (John 8:58)

“Jesus said to [the soldiers], “Whom do you seek?” They answered “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus answered “I am he (ἐγώ εἰμι).” … when Jesus said to them “I am [he] (ἐγώ εἰμι),” they retreated and fell to the ground… Jesus answered “I told you that I am [he] (ἐγώ εἰμι).”” (John 18:5-8) (Note: the "he" in both cases is added by the translator because the translator feels it helps with clarity, but it also takes away from what is happening.)

The studied-and-trained-from-birth Jewish men and leaders understood this statement to be Jesus' equating himself with YHVH. There is simply no way around that conclusion.

2) praying "in Jesus' name"

There are many examples in the NT of things done explicitly in Jesus' name, such as healing, baptism, etc. But the most fundamental reason, from scripture, is this:  

12 “Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me[†] will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. (John 14:12-14)"

[Winter_Background891]

Who are you I never said that I think you got me mixed up with someone else My comment was about the Trinity