Why was Jesus also praying to God when the trinity knows that he is also God?

If Jesus was “one” with God the Father, why did he pray to himself not to accomplish his own Divine Plan?

If Jesus was “one” with God the Father, how could he pray, “Not my will, but Thine be done.”?

To understand the contradictions we see in the New Testament, such as Jesus praying to himself not to do what he had come to earth to do, theoretically with perfect faith in himself, we have to understand the strange evolution of Jesus from a fully human Messiah into God Incarnate…

STAGE I: FULLY HUMAN

According to the oldest and least “embellished” gospel, that of Mark, there was nothing exceptional about Jesus until his baptism, at which time he was designated as “the Son of God.” The voice speaking from heaven when John the Baptist baptized Jesus was probably a later embellishment, for theological purposes, to convince readers that it was, indeed, the baptism of Jesus that made him “the Son of God” via adoption. This does not mean that Jesus was God, or that he was one with God. For instance, Adam was called “the Son of God.” (Luke 3:38)

According to Mark, we see Jesus denying that he was God when he rebuked the man who addressed him as “Good Teacher.” Jesus replied, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” (Mark 10:17-20)

At this stage it made sense for Jesus to pray to God, like any religious human being.

STAGE II: THE “VIRGIN BIRTH” AND OTHER SIMILAR NONSENSE

Either the author of Matthew or his redactors, probably both, were shameless liars. The author of Mark and the evangelist Paul knew nothing about the following bizarre inventions of the original author and redactors of the gospel of Matthew:

• The fictitious “genealogy” of Jesus, which blatantly contradicts the gospel of Luke.
• The “virgin birth.”
• The “star of Bethlehem.”
• The Magi, or wise men.
• The “massacre of the innocents.”
• The “flight into Egypt” which blatantly contradicts the gospel of Luke. Matthew was very big on making up things about Jesus in order to have him “fulfill” prophecies of the Old Testament, such as “Out of Egypt, I have called my son.” But that “prophecy” was actually about the nation of Israel being called out of Egypt during the Exodus. The Bible often used the names of patriarchs like Israel, Judah and Joseph when talking about the tribes they fathered.
• Jesus saying Peter would be the “rock” upon which he would build his church — very convenient to Catholic popes and their authority, of course.
• The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
• The story of Judas Iscariot returning his blood money then committing suicide, which blatantly contradicts Acts 1:18, where Judas used the blood money to purchase a field then “fell headlong” in an accident, gushing out his bowels.

At this stage, Jesus had been promoted to a demigod — half human, half divine — but was still not on par with God, nor was he “one” with God. Thus at this stage it still made sense for Jesus to pray to God, since God was the superior being.

STAGE III: JESUS BECOMES THE GREEK LOGOS, OR “WORD”

The last of the four gospels to be written, the gospel of John, introduces the novel idea that Jesus was preexistent and was “with” God and “was” God before the universe was created. This would have come as a shock to all the other authors of the Bible, going back to whoever wrote the Torah, but also including Paul and the authors of the other gospels and Acts.

Here it becomes fuzzy that Jesus would pray not to do what he had always intended to do, even before the creation of the earth and human beings. Why would a preexistent, all-knowing Creator pray not to accomplish his self-appointed task? Did he lack faith in himself? If so, was he perfect as Christians claim?

STAGE IV: THE TRINITY

Long after the deaths of Jesus and the apostles, someone came up with the idea that Jesus was part of a Trinity, along with God the Father and the mysterious Holy Poltergeist.