Jesus was fully man and fully God right???

Question

Ok, well i know that Jesus was Fully man, AND fully God.. but how can that be? i mean if he WAS fully human, how could he survive in the desert for 40 days without food... i mean, maybe without food it would be possible.. but without WATER!?? i mean i think that you die in like 5 days or somthing without water. but yeah, so how Could Jesus be Fully of 2 different things. he would have to be 100% of both... adding up to 200% though. So he would logically have to be only 50% of both. but then again. he was 100%... hmm.. if anybody understands what i am trying to ask, i would greatly appreciate an answer! Thanks!

Answer 1

The Lord recognizes not your "math". Jesus can be both no matter what the percentages!

Answer 2

Jesus was 100% man. If you believe in Jesus and his story, than you should believe that Jesus was able to survive 40 days with out food through God's mercy and divine help from the Holy Spirit.
Another example is the Passion. Could YOU or anyone survive an extreme beating like Jesus got and then carry a friggin tree trunk half way up a mountain? No, that to was divine intervention of the Holy Spirit.
I guess

Answer 3

Well, since Jesus is God, the usual concepts like being 100% something or 50% or 200% don't apply. He was fully God and fully man, and it's just a mystery as to how that can be. He may have had enough water to survive, or it may have been a miracle that he survived.

Answer 4

As humans with flesh and a continuous need for water, we can not comment or give an opinion on the survival of Jesus in the desert for 40 days without food or water. In that the life of Jesus cannot be written about because it has [already] been written in the Gospels. In these sources the purpose of the authors was not to write a life but to present the object of the Christian faith and preaching. We can believe that the atmosphere of His historical presence; those who knew and related the anecdotes from which the Gospels were written knew that there were depths in Him which they comprehended. We have questions today as there have been for over 2,000 years--and it's well for us to respect the reserve of the Gospel's authors.

Answer 5

A little clue first, when you want serious answers about Christianity, preface your question with "Christians only". This will keep the kooks away.

Speaking strictly of Jesus' genetics, his mother contributed a haploid number of chromosomes, and God created the other haploid number so that Jesus was indeed the only begotten son of God, but he was in every respect a human male. Thus he is our "kinsman redeemer", like you read about in the book of Ruth.

You have to remember, that even though Jesus was 100% human from a chromosomal standpoint, His Father is God Himself. We know from John 4:24 that God is a Spirit. Jesus, therefore, as God's Son is also Spirit. Thus Jesus is also 100% God.

This is one case where 100% plus 100% does not equal 200%. He is more than just human, and he has a human body where God does not. Obviously God could have created a body to inhabit to come to earth and talk some sense into us, but He's God and does things His way to accomplish His purposes. Who am I to question the way God does things?

Answer 6

Wise-Guy started down the right path, then slipped off into worldly wisdom.

Paul gives us insight to the truth in 1Corinthians 15 when he refers to Christ as the "second Adam". When God made Adam, he was complete and perfect, but he was alone. Then God took from Adam's completeness to make Eve, and in so doing made the irreversible need for man to be completed by woman. Paul tells us that Jesus is the second Adam in as much as He was a complete man, lacking nothing. As a complete man, of which there have ever only been two, who is to say what physical limitations they LACKED? The Devil only tempted Jesus for forty days; who is to say that as a complete man He couldn't have gone on 40 months, or 40 years?

We are by our nature only 50% of what God created man as. Spiritually, we are separated from God in the sin of our nature. We cannot be 100% spiritually until we are transformed physically to be 100%. Jesus, on the other hand, was a complete man, capable of perfect fellowship with God, and quite obviously physically superior in every aspect to most of us.

This is why God came to earth in this form - to show us His intention in creation, and His love in redemption. Jesus was fully man (and much more fully then any of us), and fully God.

Answer 7

Jesus is considered to be the Son of God on earth -- he was both fully human and fully divine. Instead of looking at it as Jesus being 50% human and 50% divine, think of it as being 100% human and 100% divine. A reading of the Gospels will reveal this to you.

Answer 8

I think in the desert, he would need water to survive. No one can live that long without water. The devil would have tempted Him with water instead of bread in that case, and could have been mistaken for a mirage. There are different kinds of fasts in the Bible. ie Daniel didn't do complete fasts, but abstained from meats and other things when he fasted. But Jesus obviously abstained from all morsels of food. Secondly, Jesus was fully human in bodily form, but His spirit inside the corruptible body was derived from God, not Adam (man, as we are, prone to sin and evil).

Answer 9

Jesus had 100% faith in The Father. That is how he survived. He put all His trust and faith in God for everything He needed. He is God in human form. And if you have to get technical, I am a nurse and have seen plenty of people live a long time without a sip of water.

Answer 10

The Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit are all one. It is called the Trinity. Jesus is the Son. God is the Father. All have equal power. Jesus came to us to give us an example to follow. The Godhead gave us only the information that we need and no more. Think of the Trinity like this: everything has height, length, and depth or x,y,z. You cannot separate any part of it and they are all one. God always has been, always is, and always will be.

Answer 11

The key lies in the soul, not just the body.

Jesus has a human body and a human soul ... so is fully man ... and he also has his divine, godly spirit ... so is fully God. One body, two souls.

Because he chose to live life authentically as a man, Jesus "emptied" himself, and didn't rely on his own power at all.

Anything he needed for his mission was provided for him by God the Father, through the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the same way God cares for each and every one of us.

Jesus certainly endured more than most men could have endured on his way to the cross, too.

We can assume that God provided any extra "power" that Jesus may have needed in order to survive the ordeal, and to perfectly fulfill his Father's divine will.

From the Catholic catechism:

Because "human nature was assumed, not absorbed,"in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ's human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ's human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from "one of the Trinity." The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:

The Son of God . . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.