17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Acts 5
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
I do not understand this. According to John Jesus himself resurrected himself. But according to Paul God resurrected him.
I always thought God resurrected Jesus and Jesus kind of depended on God to do it.
Posted by: StarChilde
Here are some more verses on the resurrection:
THE RESURRECTION WAS EFFECTED BY
The power of God
Act 2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
BY HIS OWN POWER:
Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Joh 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
The power of the Holy Spirit
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Posted by: Ruth Terech
The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, are all the same.
Posted by: StarChilde
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruth Terech
The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, are all the same.
I do not see them as the same... they are 3 in 1, not the same, there is a difference.
I will use as an example an apple:
The seeds, are part of an apple, the flesh (the part you eat) is part of an apple, the peeling covering the apple is part of the apple... all are PART of the apple, yet singly is not the apple. These 3 combined make up the apple.
There is The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, each has a different function, and are separate in this function, yet all are united into One, but not the same.
Posted by: Frederik
Yes, they are not the same.
Jesus did not pray to himself, this would be ridiculous.
He prayed to the Father.
