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Let me just start out by saying, I am a firm believer in God. He is my life, and I love him so much. :D But, you see, I was raised in a Christian household. I grew up being told that Jesus was my savior, and God was my Father. I never questioned anything. Until now. I am known amongst my friends as the religious one, the one they know to NEVER offer a drink or cigarette to. Ever. ;D I have strong ideals of what is right and wrong, and a strong conscience, of which I believe to be God guiding me. So being known as that person, my friend not long ago once came to me with a dilemma, asking me all these questions about Jesus, God, etc. I had not the slightest clue of how to answer. All my faith in Him wasn't born, it was always there. I hadn't been convinced of his presence. There was never any question. So therefore, I have no facts or anything. No shield against the questions of curious people! I only have/need love, and feelings of His presence to convince me. You can't really debate with feelings, lol. Anyway, I've recently realized; All these years of just assuming and stuff, and only dealing with God, I have no idea what the Holy Spirit is! I also have no relationship with Jesus. Which has made me realize: I'm a lukewarm. I'm a poser. I've gone through my life believing I was a true christian, and now it's sorta hit me like a ton of bricks. So after all those words, here's my question: How are all three really connected? Are Jesus and God the same thing? But, why did Jesus refer to God as "The Father" if he WAS God? If they're all the same thing, what's the point of having three different things? I'm so confused. I pray to God like he's my best friend, and my dad. We're pretty tight. But when it comes to Jesus... I don't understand! When I pray to God, am I praying to Jesus too? But the Bible says if I don't know Jesus, I might as well not know God. So according to the Bible, it doesn't matter that I trust and believe in God as much as I do if I don't have a relationship with Jesus? I mean I know Christ is the only way but... UGH. -Face/palm- I've looked it up on Google, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit thing? But I've only gotten either huge, complicated answers, or useless historical answers. I've prayed to God about it, and I think Advicenators is where He's telling me to go to. I need a human to human ANSWER, ya know, that ANSWERS my question? So can someone simply answer my questions without any unnecessary crap or anything, like stupid Wikipedia? LOL. Thank you, my sanity depends on you! OH, side question, when I'm worshiping God in song, this unknown wave of emotion flows in my chest, and all my questions fade away, and it's as if He's looking down on me, and it's calm and serene... Is this rational, and normal? My brain's not making that up, is it? xDDD! (link)
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The Trinity! WOW isn't this a question and a half! And WOW to the answers I've read also. Let me add my answer too and hope it will help you atleast and remove the confusion. Our God is not a God of confusion:-) my answer is going to differ alittle from some of the others but I hope it helps. Bare with me I'll try to make my answer as short as possible.
First it's not humanly possible to fully understand the Trinity because its a mystery and we are also limited in our understanding. So within the nature of God their are 3separate and distinct persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are all equal & eternal and they all posses intellect, emotion, and will. An example of the egg has been used, let me add some 2others. 1)Water exists in 3froms i.e solid, liquid and gas yet all of them are still water. 2)You. You have the physical body, soul and spirit yet your still one person. Their aren't 3of you. Same with the trinity, they are ONE but different persons. The Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Holy Spirit &Jesus is not the Holy Spirit. They are all separate and distinct, but they are all one.
WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? The Holy Spirit is the 3rd person of the trinity and like the Father and the Son, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD. In Acts 5;3 Peter asked Ananias why he had lied to the Holy Spirit, in verse4 Peter says that he(Ananias) lied not to men but to God(Holy Spirit) The Holy Spirit is God also because He is eternal, all knowing, all powerful, all present etc. So my dear the Holy Spirit is God not a thing or force or I don't know what.
ARE JESUS & GOD THE SAME? Jesus IS God but He is not the Father. As I said they are 3persons in the nature of God, they are Separate and distinct but they're all equal so Jesus is God. When your praying to God your still praying to Jesus because He is God. Their is only ONE God.
WHY DID JESUS CALL GOD "FATHER" Jesus existed both as God and as Man too. Depending on the context in which He calls God ''Father'' He might have called Him that as a man. Also as I've said Jesus and the Father are distinct and separate persons the Father isn't the Son and the Son isn't the Father but they are all God.
As for knowing God and not Jesus, Jesus said that you can't get to the Father except through Jesus so their is no way you can bypass Jesus to go to the Father direct. I differ with the person who said that we aren't to pray to Jesus. We can pray to Him because He IS God and He is well able to provide. Their's only One God.
Yes I think its normal to feel at peace when worshipping God in song as long as its God's Spirit that is giving you the peace. I hope I've helped alittle. Feel free to ask for clarification or anything we're all learning. Your question has helped me alot also.
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Hahaha, yeah it is a difficult question indeed. -3-;; But thank you for answering! If I were you I would've skipped this question because I would not have known how to answer. xDD;
You've cleared up the Jesus and God thing very well! The other questions hadn't clarified very well on that part... You're metaphors helped meto grasp the concept better too. That's how things make sense for me, through examples.
Thank you very much for your answers, you've made things very simple for me!! And glad my question helped you too! That's always good to hear. :) God bless!!
Rachel
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