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Response to Misha'al Al-Kadhi: Does God pray to Himself?
A response to 1.2.3.14
Does God pray to Himself?
Al-Kadhi does not give convincing reasons to believe that God in a fallen world
would not in fact communicate with God in heaven.
When American soldiers in the swamps of Vietnam needed instruction, they got
on the radio and called HQ for help. Though they were in Vietnam, they were
still American. So too, Jesus, descended from heaven, laying aside the
direct excercise of his divine attributes, entering into the marshes of
this fallen world, to live the live as the true man in obedient dependence
to God. When the battle was intense, He called the Father for help.
The assumption that He was not divine will of course cloud our understanding of
why He prayed, but we do not accept that assertion. To do so in the face of
scripture which clearly calls Jesus God is to play editor to the inspired Word
of God.
As Al-Kadhi has written from the Koran:
"Allah is Able to do all things."
Jesus can be and is God whether Muslims like it or not. As it is written,
"Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father." That includes Mohammad.
Various helpful illustrations
how to logically understand God in man and God in heaven at the same
time.
The Rebuttal to "What Did Jesus Really Say?"
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