Why did Jesus pray to the Father?
(John 17). • Because as a man He needed to pray to the Father. • Because He was both God and man (Col. 2:9; John 8:58 with Ex. 3:14). • The two natures of Christ are why we have two types of scripture concerning Jesus: those that seem to focus on His divine-side, and those that seem to focus on His human-side. The JW’s are simply ignoring, or changing, the divine-side scriptures and concentrating on those that describe His human-side. • Why did He say the Father was greater than He (John 14:28)? • This is because His position was different than that of God, not His nature. It says in He • Heb. 2:9 that Jesus is made for a little while lower than the angels; that is, when He became a man. The Father sent the Son (1 John 4:10). • Why did He say, “Why call me good, only God is good?” (Luke 18:19)? • Jesus was confirming His own deity because what He was doing was good. • Ask them, “Was Jesus good?” • Why did Jesus say that He could only do those things that He saw the Father do? (John 5:1
