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Start with a hard question: when Jesus prays, who is He talking to? We take that question straight to Scripture and uncover a clear pattern across the birth of Christ, His baptism, the transfiguration, Gethsemane, and His ongoing intercession. The threads converge on one reality: the Bible presents one God in three distinct persons, and that clarity is not a technicality—it safeguards the meaning of prayer, obedience, the cross, and salvation itself.

We walk through the relational language of the New Testament—Father sending the Son, the Son obeying and saying not my will, but yours, and the Spirit descending and regenerating—and explain why these are not theatrical roles but real personal distinctions within the unity of God. That frame unlocks the power of mediation. A mediator stands between parties. First Timothy 2:5 calls Jesus the man Christ Jesus, mediator between God and men, while Hebrews and 1 John describe His intercession and advocacy with the Father. These terms lose force if the Son is merely the Father in disguise. They gain depth when the Son, truly God and truly man, presents His finished work to the Father on our behalf.

We also map the triune pattern of salvation: the Father elects, the Son redeems, the Spirit regenerates and sanctifies. This is the living choreography behind every conversion, a single divine will enacted inseparably by three persons, each acting according to personal properties. Even the Old Testament prepares us for this unity-in-distinction: the Shema’s confession of one Lord, the Elohim language of Genesis, and the Angel of the Lord and Name theology hint at plurality-in-unity fulfilled in Christ and the Spirit. Far from puzzle-box religion, this is the Bible’s straightforward witness that preserves the gospel’s center.

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