But, if Jesus was G’d like you claim, then why did he supposedly pray to G’d on the cross to help him and save him, and couldn’t come to his own rescue?
You could ask the same question about Moses. Why wasn’t he allowed to enter the promises land? After leading the Israelites out Egypt and then to journey to Mt. Sinai to receive the law? Moses was not only loved by God (as with Jesus) but he was loved by his own people! Tradition “holds” that there is no prophet like Moses (Deuteronomy 34:10).
However, like Elijah to Elisha, the transferring of
Commission went directly toward another by way of the Spirit. This meaning from Saul to David by Samuel (the prophet) and then David to Solomon, “Lord has blessed me with many sons, but he chose my son Solomon.”
Again, like Moses to Joshua, the same spirit that empowered Moses, making him a prophet of God, can be given to others. But like Moses in regards to not entering the promise land, David was not allowed to build the temple. Solomon was commissioned to the building of the temple. God is always at work with the next creation. David was involved in planning but (hint) not the building of the temple…
Solomon therefore asked God for wisdom to rule his people as King and God grants him discernment and an understanding mind.
Next, before Elijah departs, Elisha, who had refused to leave his side, requested a double portion of his spirit. Elijah promises it will be so if Elisha sees him as he is taken up. Jesus was the pivitol to the tranferring of “The Spirit of God [Ruach Elohim]” to his apostles.
And so, that the apostles would “not be scattered”, Jesus intercedes for them in prayer. Like Moses, God’s leadership will endure even beyond Moses. God’s spirit goes where it wills!
Joshua complains, but Moses answers, “Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!” (v. 29).
Precisely this is announced much later by Joel, who envisions a time when God will pour the “spirit on all flesh” and “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy” (Joel 2:28-29). Jesus echoes Moses’ welcome of the unexpected prophets when he forbids John from stopping an unknown exorcist who was said to be “not following us.” Like Moses, Jesus is open to God’s work through many sources: “Whoever is not against us is for us” (Mark 9:38-41).
Jesus, in John 17, states it very clearly - He had finished the work that the father (God) commissioned him to do and just like Elijah, sent on his way with three commissions, all of which allude to a future in which he himself will not participate; like Moses and like David.