Is it reasonable that God would pray to God? This is illogical and self-contradictory! Actually, it is a very logical statement.

First, God became incarnate in Christ to show us the way, and indeed to be the way. God spoke to the prophets throughout the ages, but He decided that the best way to reach humanity, teach them the path of salvation, and renew their nature was for Him to become incarnate and live among us. It was not appropriate for Christ to become incarnate to show us the way, and in the end, not pray, and exempt Himself from all the commandments under the pretext that He is God! Otherwise, there would have been no need for Him to become incarnate in the first place.

Second, the fact that Christ prays makes perfect sense if we understand His nature. Christ is both God and man, fully human. Not just human, and not just God. For example, imagine a lit lamp: There is a lamp (a material object), and there is light coming out of it (a non-material light).

A lamp cannot illuminate without light, and light cannot be seen or used without emerging from the lamp. They are different in nature, but they are united in function and existence at the moment of illumination.

However, we cannot say that the light “transformed” into the lamp, nor that the lamp “became” merely light. Each retains its nature, but they work together in an inseparable unity. We cannot say that if the lamp breaks, the light is broken, because light cannot be broken.

And so it is with Christ: He has humanity (like the physical body of a lamp), and He is a complete human being. He has divinity (like the outward light), and He is God the eternal Word.

When He prayed, He prayed in his humanity, while his divinity was always united to him without losing his divine attributes.

There are many verses that prove that He is God. For example, in the Gospel of John, Christ said, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me,” and “I and the Father are one,” and “He who has seen me has seen the Father.”

At the same time, Christ lived as a perfect human being, eating, drinking, sleeping, and weeping. As a human being, Christ lived and fulfilled the Law of Moses. He prayed, fasted, did good deeds, and taught in Jewish synagogues. Therefore, there is no contradiction between Christ being God, raising the dead, and controlling the entire universe, and at the same time being a perfect human being, praying and fasting.

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