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NASB | Mark 10:18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 10:18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is [essentially] good [by nature] except God alone. |
Bible Question:
How is it possible that God can pray to God? Would his prayer be an expiation for his sins? Shouldn't he be giving an example of praying to himself, because is not Jesus the focus of Christian prayers? If he was giving an example of praying to the Father in heaven, should we not be following his example? Koran 4:171 O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of God aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of God, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in God and His apostles. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for God is one God. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is God as a Disposer of affairs. |
Bible Answer: Isa, Jesus was sinless. The prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4, we have the Model Prayer, it is for us to follow. Since He never sinned, He would not pray this prayer, at least not the part asking for the forgiveness of sins. The Lord's Prayer is found in John 17. I read what you have quoted above. Now I ask you to read what I have written. I realize that the English sometimes does a poor translation, so see what the orginial says. I use a concordance and lexicon. In Quran 7:158, Muhammad asked people to follow him. Elsewhere in the Quran, Muhammad testified that Jesus was among those nearest to God, held in honor in this world and the hereafter (Quran 3:45). Do Muslims understand this to mean that Jesus was sinless and all-righteous, something that the early Muslims never claimed for Muhammad? In several Quranic passages (16:61; 40:55; 42:5, 30; 47:19; 48:1-2) we read that Muhammad was exhorted to seek forgiveness for his faults, that not a single living creature would be left on |