Really??? When Jesus prayed, was He just talking to Himself? Or, when He asked for the cup to be taken away, was that an internal conflict God was having? I don't think so.
He is not a demigod, half-god and half human, nor is there divine "schizophrenia," or multiple personality.
I fully agree. I don't think I would be wise to attempt to explain the intricate mechanics of it, but I do agree.
At no point can anything about Christ be considered "normal" or "natural" from the human point of view.
But that's just labeling. For example, Jesus built things. He must have built a chair for someone. Was that a supernatural chair, or was it just a regular chair, although extremely well built? Unless you think that the chair carried with it supernatural qualities, then it was a normal or natural chair.
If you want to say that His tears were "supernatural" just because they were His, that is fine. But, if a scientist examined those tears and compared them with those of a normal person, would he see any difference? I don't think so, or else how could He have been fully human?
I think the key word there is "only."
So, then, FK, when Jesus was praying, what was God the Word doing? I think you are mixing up nature or essence with Person. You are trying to think of Him either as God in one moment and as man in another, in a schizophrenic way, separated from the divine – kind of like multiple personalities.
A8 is right: that is Nestorianism.
Truth is, whatever Christ did or does, at no time was in conflict with either of His two natures, or separate from His natures. That's why His Incarnation, Mary's pregnancy and birth, were not your "natural."
But, if a scientist examined those tears and compared them with those of a normal person, would he see any difference?
Of course not, just as His flesh was human flesh and his DNA was that of Mary's human DNA ( but not "natural" in that, technically speaking, such DNA would make Him genetically a female haploid).
He was talking to the Father.
-A8