If Jesus is God, Why Did He Pray to the Father?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1029 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. How can I explain that Jesus is the answer for those who are suffering?
2. You answered my former question about Jehovah's Witnesses. It really helped me and my son. But my son came back saying, when Jesus prayed to the Father, how could he be praying to himself? I couldn't exactly answer him.
3. Did Mary live a sinless life?
4. I struggle with psychotic delusions and they prevent me from having an assurance of salvation. What can I do?
5. What place does the doctrine of hell have in evangelism?
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| 0:00.0 | If Jesus is God, then why did he pray to the Father? |
| 0:09.8 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:14.8 | Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:19.1 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:23.6 | You can call us right now with your question. Here's the number. It's 833-the-core. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. Of course, you can always post your question on one of our social media sites, and you can always email |
| 0:37.5 | us at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, let's go to Jacob, who's calling in from |
| 0:45.1 | Kansas City, Missouri. Jacob, what's your question for Pastor Adriel? As a fellow Christian, |
| 0:53.8 | how can I, besides at church and with my church community, talk about and show that, like, Jesus is like the only way, I guess, and how, like, he's right there. |
| 1:11.6 | Like, I guess what I'm saying is like when I see anxious or anxiety people, like, the answer is him, I guess. |
| 1:18.6 | How can I publicize that and get that out there? |
| 1:22.6 | Hmm. |
| 1:23.6 | How can you encourage the people around you who aren't in the church who maybe don't believe in Jesus but are struggling with fear and anxiety to look to Christ as our hope and as the only way. |
| 1:37.7 | And of course, that's what Jesus says. |
| 1:39.5 | I am the way the truth in the life. |
| 1:41.0 | No one comes to the Father except through me. |
| 1:43.7 | You know, this is one of the |
| 1:44.5 | things, Jacob, that a lot of people, as I'm sure you've recognized, you know, they have a hard time |
| 1:49.2 | with this idea of the exclusivity of the gospel. The fact that Jesus is the only way, that there is no |
| 1:55.0 | other name given under heaven by which men must be saved. They think, well, gosh, that doesn't seem |
| 1:59.9 | right, you know, can't always lead |
| 2:02.2 | to God. But that's all just not what the Bible teaches. And so I think part of the way that maybe |
| 2:09.2 | we can address this or broach this subject when you're having conversations with people is just |
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