This is the second installment of the Questions From an X Jew. I want to know that if Christians are monotheistic, and they believe in God, then how can they believe in Jesus being the Son of God. If that were true, than they would either be worshipping two gods or one and a half gods. Please understand that I am not trying to offend anyone. It is just that this question has been nagging me for a while and I wanted to see what the Christians on AG have to say. Thanks!
The way on Christian explained it to me, he said that Jesus is god but he's the Manly version of God so he's also his son, but not really. Except it is weird, when they talk about it, like, pray I mean, then it's as if Jesus and God are completely two different entities. Usually with Jesus being the one that loves you and God being the scary one you shouldn't do bad stuff again. It's never made much monotheistic sense to me, but, whatever. As for the holy spirit... I'm at a loss. Seeing as there's a "God the Father" and a "God the Holy Spirit", which is confusing, as both are in heaven.
If anyone could, could they help to enlighten? It's an interesting question to ask.
And, not to make your linking go to waste, but, Wikipedia explains it poorly Just, in my opinion
i always wondered about these things myself (i really like learning about different religions and cultures) but i never bothered asking because i knew i would be even more confused XD
The christian belief is that God is made up of the father (god(i think)), the son (jesus), and the holy spirit (no idea).
And about thirty billion saints and the Virgin Mary, since we are obviously just talking about Roman Catholics right now.
I personally think that Jesus was a good guy and all, but he really (if he was the son of "God" disobeyed his pops. He preached salvation, God preached sacrifice or die. He was nice and a healer, God slew millions by telling his minions that they were evil. Personally, I don't see the correlation.
Essentially, Jesus cannot possibly be the son of God because one, were he actually divine than he would never have been able to be killed by the Romans. and Two, he is a personification of God as was described by the Jews, who was, as it is pointed out earlier along the thread, vengeful, so he is making a contradiction within the fabric of christianity as is.
WHAT I BELIEVE! God wanted a true son to spread his message through the world, and made the unborn jesus that. And that jesus gave himself up from the world to save us. God is all powerful, he could simply pop his son out of no where, but he wanted a real human being as one. Jesus has no powers, and when he healed and did miricles, he wasnt doing it, it was god doing it with his powers, and that jesus simply was there to help find those that need healing.
WHAT I BELIEVE. The trinity is God the father(the god that speaks to us from our prayers and that was makeing prophets in the biblical times) The son jesus(gods son, who gave his life to save the world from sin) and the holy spirit(the tiny peice of gods power inside us all, giveing us free will, life, and all that. The holy spirit is in everything, even the devil, who god isnt like "OMG I HATE THE DEVIL HE IS SUCH A N00B FOR BETRAYING ME!" he is like" Yeah, im disappointed he was corrupted by sin, but hey, i hope one day he is good again"
God at the begining Chose Jesus to be the one to come to earth and to become the savior. He went down to the earth, having a earthly mother, and a heavenly father. So he could choose not to die. But he sacrifices himself so Heavenly Father and all of his children can be together. That is just a very brief, BRIEF, summery of it.
But he sacrifices himself so Heavenly Father and all of his children can be together.
Yeah...here's the dumb part of this...
Why couldn't God just say "Oh you're all forgiven" but instead has to have yet ANOTHER person die? "I'm all powerful, but i'll just give this random women here a child and have it die in around...oh let's say...30 years, and then just say everyone is forgiven. Makes sense right? Sure it does!" All powerful God can only forgive us by killing his own son? All powerful God = Retarted if that's the case. It's like having a board, a nail, and a hammer, you could just pound the nail in with the hammer, but instead you use your forhead.
Why couldn't God just say "Oh you're all forgiven" but instead has to have yet ANOTHER person die? "I'm all powerful, but i'll just give this random women here a child and have it die in around...oh let's say...30 years, and then just say everyone is forgiven. Makes sense right? Sure it does!" All powerful God can only forgive us by killing his own son? All powerful God = Retarted if that's the case. It's like having a board, a nail, and a hammer, you could just pound the nail in with the hammer, but instead you use your forhead.
He did this to show his LOVE for us. If he just said that "Youre all forgiven" what love is there in that. That we very vague for a God. Also, long ago, people in the times of Jacob used to take a lamb and slaugher it at the holy altar and after this procession, they are worthy to be forgiven.
Jesus, the human form of God, was the ultimate sacrifice, LAMB!, for all of humanity to be worthy to be forgiven for their sins.
In the case of "the random woman", the woman's name is Mary. God had chosen her for she was very pure. She would deny to even hurt a fly. She was the perfect woman to take care of God's "son" his human counterpart.
Why couldn't God just say "Oh you're all forgiven" but instead has to have yet ANOTHER person die?
You're looking at death in a negative light, though. For a Christian [I'm guessing, since I'm not] I'm sure they wouldn't see it as 'Jesus died now he's screwed' they're looking at it as 'Jesus died now he's partying in heaven'. Or he's a part of God or something the trinity part of it doesn't make sense to me but my point is that, to a Christian, his death, though sad, is not a tragedy, seeing as it helped to spread Christianity, absolve sins, make a nice story, and sounds like a sweet ticket to the happy place upstairs.
Armed - then why on Earth do people still cry at funerals? If they really believed that the dead person was with God in Heaven then they would celebrate that persons death. I'd say that almost all Christians still view death as something bad.
