Was Jesus divine or human? Which would be more significant?

Question

I am going to follow up with some of my own opinion. I don't think it matters if he was divine or not, but it only matters that he is human. He sets a standard that all can strive to attain. If he is God, how would it be that we would think that we could attain a God status? He would put himself out of humans' ability to be or imulate God. Unattainable by most conventional thinking.

I do like one of the responses stating the we are all both divine and human. I tend to intertain this belief myself. God is internal to every human-being and doesn't exist outside the soul.

Answer 1

Jesus was human! the only book of the bible that claims his divinity is John....The term messiah actually means Annointed one and being that Jesus was an actual king he had to be annointed and according to Jewish tradition because you were annointed you became a son of god....and the mis translation has led to the mess we now know as christianity

Answer 2

All of us are both divine and human; Jesus was not an exception to this rule.

The soul comes from God so it is by its very nature divine and could not be otherwise.

The body likewise is from God so it is by default also divine but is normally spoken of as the human part of us.

This is difficult to dispute but religion is uncomfortable admitting this truth about us because it is afraid of what we might do if we realized the truth about ourselves.

Most Religions were created to control through fear of divine punishment. This was done because human nature was looked at as something that could not be trusted.

The idea was that without a punishing God to fear people would not have enough self-control to keep a civil society going. This is nonsense of course because even a casual observation will show that some of the most bigoted hateful people hide behind religious misinterpretations to justify their actions.

Inversely Buddhists who have no such belief in a judgmental punishing God are some of the most compassionate people one could hope to meet.

I am not saying one religion is superior to the other, I am merely pointing out that threat of punishment does not necessarily dictate human compassion or the lack of it.

Answer 3

We have ALL been born because of a union of a sperm and an agg. However, when Jesus came He was born WITHOUT a father's sperm. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit inside of a virgin. Jesus was perfect and He had a perfect nature. All mankind has been born into sin because we have inherited the sinful nature from our fathers. But Jesus was born WITHOUT a sinful nature because He was conceived of the HOLY Spirit. The word "HOLY" literally means to be separate. So, Jesus was born "separate" from the sinful nature and had within Himself both the human AND the Divine nature. Jesus had what theologians call a "HYPOSTATIC UNION." Meaning He was all human AND all God in the flesh at the same time. Jesus was human and He was God in the same person.

Answer 4

He was technically both but to answer your question he was born human so he was human. The whole purpous of Jesus in the story of the bible was to show that the holy spirit and God were apart of every man because man is a reflection of God.

Answer 5

He was both and both were important because He referred to Himself as both "the Son of God " and "the Son of man".

In the culture that Jesus lived, the phrase "the son of..." meant that you were someone who had all the rights, power and authority of your father. This is why a Jewish boy would go through a Bar Mitzi at the age of 12 or 13, to signify he had the rights, power and authority of his father.

Jesus claimed for himself not only the authority of God in heaven, but also the authority of man in the earth. It was that unique combination that made it possbile for him to the Savior of the world.

Answer 6

I think having a human being being the son of God would be more significant since it could show the relationship and affirm the love for us.

Answer 7

Jesus is God incarnate. The most important thing that has ever happened is that God came to earth to walk as a Man among men. He came to give us the chance to get to know Him personally. He came to experience temptation firsthand, as a man experiences it. But most significantly, He became flesh in order to sacrifice that flesh on the altar of our salvation.

Answer 8

jesus is divine and was in the flesh,i.e. God made flesh. It is significant to note that we have a God in touch with our humanity, felt what we felt, ate as we ate, slept as we slept and worked as we worked, not forgeting that he too was tempted as we are tempted today. So, that which is more significant is, Jesus is God witha human touch.

Answer 9

He was both divine and human. Both are equally significant, because being human meant that he was one of us, understanding of our nature, suffering physically just like us, like when he was crucified, and because being divine he was more powerful than us and than death. That's why Jesus is our savior, because of his dual nature (divine and human).

Answer 10

Jesus was both and yet he lived as human. He let the devine shine thru his works. his teachings also came of the devine. yet he ws human. he was flesh and blood and that was in order to save mankin from his sins for Jesus destiny was preordained.