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Why Jesus Prayed to the Father If He Is God
The video addresses the objection that Jesus cannot be God because he prayed to the Father. It presents the Church's teaching that Jesus is fully God and fully man at the same time. As God, he is eternally one with the Father; as man, he lived a genuine human life with hunger, fatigue, grief, and the need to pray.
The Gospels show Jesus praying frequently: alone on a mountain, all night before choosing the apostles, and in Gethsemane saying, "Father, not my will, but yours be done." He was not praying to himself but as a son to his Father, demonstrating how a human life should be lived in complete trust in God. The speaker reflects that if the Son of God needed to withdraw and pray, ordinary believers need prayer even more, noting the common temptation to think one is too busy to pray when Jesus never was.
Key moments
- The question "If Jesus is God, then who was he praying to?" is a common objection to his divinity.
- The gospels show Jesus praying frequently: alone on a mountain, all night before choosing apostles, and in Gethsemane saying, "Father, not my will, but yours be done."
- The church has always taught that Jesus is fully God and fully man at the same time.
- As God, he is one with the Father from all eternity; as man, he lived a real human life with hunger, tiredness, tears, and prayer.
- He was not praying to himself but praying as a son to his Father.
- His prayer shows how a human life should be lived in complete trust in God.
- The speaker realized that if Jesus, the Son of God, needed to go away and pray, then the speaker needs prayer even more.
- The speaker admits sometimes thinking they are too busy to pray, but Jesus never was.