re question jesus alone oneness in article may athos rutgers edu jblanken ccat sas upenn edu james r blankenship writes jesus only and oneness tend to refer to groups that do deny the trinity they explain matthew by saying that jesus is the name of the father jesus is the name of the son and jesus is the name of the name of the holy spirit father son holy spirit referring to different roles all filled by jesus imho this are going from bad to worse in in was bad enough i do not like a god who prays to himself i refuse to believe jesus prayed to himself let s get real if the scriptures say he prayed to the father then the father is someone different than the son i have no problems with multiple gods to me the whole context of the scriptures says be perfect even as your father who is in heaven that we can be co heirs with christ that we will be like him co heirs share all things equally including knowledge power dominion etc when i am like him christ i will be the same as he is and he is a god if god cannot do this the his is not all powerful and he is not god if he will not he is a liar and he is not god but if he does he is the greatest of all the gods i don t know of anyone who says that jesus prayed to himself the whole point of the trinity is that there s enough of a distinction within god that relationship is possible this implies some sort of communication i assume that in their native form the father and son are directly enough connected that prayer in our sense isn t involved but jesus is the incarnation of the son i e the logos made flesh when he s in a human form his human actions are limited to human capabilities so communication with the father takes the form of prayer i don t see that there s anything problematical about that it seems to be implicit in the whole idea of incarnation clh
