“When you talk about the blood of Christ - you aren’t referring to the shed blood on the cross. You are referring to the drops of blood that Jesus shed while praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he was greatly stressed because He knew the suffering which lay ahead of Him. It was there that He asked the Father if it be possible that the cup of suffering be removed, but He knew the Father’s will and so became obedient to it.”
who was Christ talking to when he asked His Father to remove this cup, but thine will be done? was Christ talking to Himself or to His Father in Heaven?
Jesus was talking to God the Father in this particular verse. This has nothing to do with the reference I made to the shed blood of Christ on the cross. Jesus was and is God the Son, and, of course, He wasn’t praying to Himself. He became man to obey His Father’s will, and die for our sins, so that we have forgiveness of sin.
I was referring to the Mormon belief of the shed blood of Christ not being the blood shed on the cross, but rather the great drops of blood he sweated during His anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane.