Something I still can't understand is how Jesus is God, but is also his son. I don't get it because if Jesus is God, then his calling himself his own son.
Someone has explained it to me before that God is in three forms just like water. Water can be plain water, it can be ice and it can be vapour, but it's all the same thing. But it still doesn't make sense that God would call himself his own son.
If you can help me understand how this works that would be great.
God bless
Why do you think God would make sense?
"Heaven's ways are higher then man's ways as the Heavens are the earth."
Really, you need to read Scripture, which explains these things. Start with the New Testament, which should cover this for you.
Do not expect to understand God quickly.
I do not like the concept your friend used to explain God. Jesus is God incarnate at a single place and time. God the Father is beyond any place or time. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father. It is also called the Spirit of Jesus, or Holy Ghost.
God the Father is Spirit and can not be seen except through the Son. That is not a trivial concept to understand. No one said it should be.
Now, God the Father sent the Son and the Son died on the cross, resurrected on the third day, and gave the Holy Spirit to many Christians.
From that many children of God have been made born again into the family of God through the Holy Spirit.
When Jesus returns Christians will finally see Him for who He is and become like Him. So, there will be many children of God fully then.
What is this like? It is like a man creates a book. He writes in heroes and heroines and villains and adversities. And he so loves this world he creates he goes into it himself and gives his life up so many can be not just characters on a page, but real living people just like he is.
Or, it is like a father and son together and the son is overjoyed at the father knowing his glory and wants to share that glory. But there is no one else. The son imagines many like himself to also see and praise the father. And from that comes the heavens and earth.
Or, consider creation a tree. There is a farm and our creation is but one tree. The farmer of the trees is God the Father. Now we live as the tree, not knowing of "farms" or anything like that, much less a farmer. We are concentrating on getting water to our roots and eventually bearing fruit.
Now God the Father comes into our Tree as God the Son and talks to us and explains to us what everything is about. Then, we see there is a world outside the tree.
Finally, God is everywhere. 'We move and live and breathe in God'. God created everything. He fills Heaven and earth. Everything is akin to a dream or imagining we might have to Him -- an invention of His imagination. But, He is not like us. He does not swear falsely. His word is strong. It sustains all Heavens and earth. In a sense, Heavens and earth are but a wrapping for our selves, our senses.
And God the Son is the big eye, if you will, sent from God, to relate with everyone else.
Make no mistake about it: understanding the nature of God should not be thought to be some trivial matter. It is impossible for the flesh and is possible only through being born again in the Holy Spirit.
Jesus understood God and this is why He could work all of the miracles He worked.
Though being in the very form of God He never considered exploiting that. Instead, He made Himself into a servant, even to death on a cross.
He lived nearly silent for thirty years.
What if, instead of healing people and taking rotten persecution from the mobs He created castles for himself and friends? What if He used His miracles to torment His enemies? He could have done anything, anything at all.
But, He made everything. It is not about the flesh, but about something far greater. That was his testimony.
He denied this world completely, looking for the next world, believing it.
He understood how this world worked and the next world because He remembered and was part of its' creation. As Creator.
