If Jesus is really god's son, then according to that God is a man. And he has a wife. And He has desires such as sex. It doesn't make sense how human can be a son of non human.
2006-09-13 06:27:12 · 31 answers · asked by V 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only logical answers, please don't quote from books. Your logical thinking only.
2006-09-13 06:32:52 · update #1
I had lot of answer (quoted from books), people who answer never though about it, they just quote it. None of that please.
2006-09-13 06:35:39 · update #2
unfortunately lot of answers do not make any sense.
2006-09-15 09:16:27 · update #3
God is immortal and cannot die, so he would not be able to present himself as a sacrifice. Jesus on the other hand, as Gods Son, was able to be born on earth as a human and he willingly offered to give his up his perfect life in exchange for the perfect life that Adam lost.
The Bible says that Jesus was God's servant at Acts 3:13: "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go."
As a loving and obedient servant, he finished the work he was sent to do and is now ruling in heaven as our King.
2006-09-13 06:44:40 · answer #1 · answered by Micah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My thought is that a being such as God exists beyond our ken. In order to interact with us in a meaningful way, a way that we could understand, God created an avatar, Jesus. It is kinda like you being here in this virtual space and posting while your body is away from here.
As for the word "son". I think that Jesus, if he was an avatar, had to follow the rules of our world and the rules of Human beings. Humanity has genders and God chose male. Son is the word used for a male child, and since Jesus was created by God then he would be the son of God. As far as I can tell, the theology suggests that Mary was more like a surrogate mother than an actual biological parent. Not 100% sure about any of this, but who is? Hope it is along the lines of what you were looking for.
--Steele
2006-09-13 06:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by steele_feher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will try and answer this as simply as I can for you!
First, God is not human. Christians believe in the Trinity, which is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost). All three are the same Spirit, in three forms if you will.
Jesus is God, in human form (in a form we could understand). If you read the Gospel of Luke Chapter 1, Verses 26-38, you see that the Angel Gabriel appeared before Mary, who was a virgin, and told her that the Holy Spirit would visit her, and she would become pregnant with the Son of God. No intercourse happened - it is a Divine miracle, and is what Christians believe.
2006-09-13 06:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by slim1234 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible indicates that in the beginning the presence of God was represented by the Father, The Word and the Holy Spirit, all of which were one and the same.
Because of the condition of the world God became frustrated and regretted its creation. Once earlier he destroyed nearly all humans in a flood.
This time God decided to personally bring this message to the world by sending the essence of himself, known as the Word, to live in the world for a short time and show them the way.
Mary was selected as the human vehicle through which the Word would "become flesh." Once born, the Word was named Jesus.
This instance of the essence of God becoming human is often referred to as the immaculate conception. It is the basis of the descriptive phrase that describes Jesus as the only "begotten" son of God.
Of course the world did not believe Jesus was actually the essence of God in the form of a man, his message was rejected and he was crucified.
However another presence of God still remains, the Holy Spirt, with the purpose of comforting and guiding believers.
To those who are not Christians this may not make sense. It may even appear superstitious. But to believers it is the essence of truth, regardless to how it is mocked by skeptics.
2006-09-13 06:38:32 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce Frazier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for starters, your question....or statement....lends to the fact that you do not have a faith based relationship with God,
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are the TRINITY.
Jesus said " I and the Father are One"
Can I explain this to you....No. But that is what faith is all about.
Hebrews 11:1 - "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we cannot see"
Without faith, you cannot discern what you are even asking or suggesting, and that makes you guilty of blasphemy.
Do you wish merely to discredit, or are you seriously interested in the truth? If it is the truth you desire, you must first surrender your viscious mindset and allow the Holy Spirit to open the mystery to you.
But first, you must accept the sacrifice Jesus made for you. Without it, it would be like reading someone elses mail.
2006-09-13 06:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by David S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some themes in The Bible remain mysteries and the incarnation and deity of Christ are just two of those mysteries. The Bible gives us just enough information to add to the measure of faith that God gave each of us to be able to understand but a glimpse of how God, the Father; in the person and place of God, the Son (Jesus); could come to earth; be born of a virgin through the over-shadowing of the Holy Spirit of God; to be tempted in each and every way that men and women are tempted; yet remain without sin due to the divine nature within Him. If you understand the nature of the Holy Trinity, God, the Father, DID come; but in the form and person of Jesus Christ.
Where do you get the idea that "he has a wife"? Who is the "he" you refer to?
The Bible speaks of Jesus having a bride, the universal church made up of all those who through faith have accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Bible also alludes to Israel as being the bride of God through the everlasting covenant; and all that is needed to recognize this is to read the Old Testament prophets and notice their use of language and imagery that suggests marriage, divorce, etc. Note in particular Hosea, I think.
If there is a god, and God Jehovah, Yahweh, of the Hebrew sacred writings is that God; the same God that the Qu'ran attests to; then what sacred writing(s) is his word?
2006-09-13 06:39:13 · answer #6 · answered by MrDan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm --- God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are what is referenced as the Holy Trinity. They are not, and have never been, of human nature. humans, by nature, are sinful beings. Mary, Jesus' human mother, was not even free of sin -- she was merely willing to be a servant for God, and God found favor in her. The Bible references God on earth in the form of a human in numerous occasions as well - just not for the duration of a lifetime. Jesus is God's only son (just not through a birth canal such as human beings are born). God and Jesus are eternal. That is what makes the fact that he gave his only son so much more meaningful. God did not HAVE to send his son down to an earth he could have just destroyed and re-created. He sent his son down to die in a human form to allow us to be closer to God. The sacrifice was not for him, nor was it an act of vanity -- It was a purely selfless act as an expression of God's love to show he would allow his son to suffer and even die to allow us to draw closer to him. God is not a man, nor did he have a wife -- additionally, man is the one who has perverted sex -- something God made as a beautiful thing between a married man and woman, free of perversion.
2006-09-13 06:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by Brian D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve sold themselves and their descendants to Satan when they disobeyed God. Only another Adam without sin could buy us back.
There had to be another Adam that had the DNA of God as well as the DNA of Adam and Eve. God the father did not have the DNA of Adam and Eve, but Jesus did. Jesus had a human mother, Mary. He was fully God and fully human. He was the second Adam.
2006-09-13 06:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by metamorphosisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes God comes Himself and sometimes He sends His representative such as Jesus. It depends on what is needed in a certain situation.
We are all God's children, sons, in the sense that we are eternal emanations from Him. He is eternally manifesting us from Himself. He does not need woman to give life to somebody, because He is unlimited. He is also self-satisfied, but He wants to expand His pleasure by enjoying loving relationships with all living beings.
Jesus was in human body, but he, just as we ourselves, was not his body. We are not these bodies. We are eternal spirit souls. Of course, our body is born of certain parents, but if by dint of transcendental knowledge we look at ourselves as spiritual beings, we can see that we are indeed sons of God, in quality one with God.
2006-09-13 06:43:01 · answer #9 · answered by H. B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't make senese. See God sent his son, the bible says Jesus is God and God is Jesus, it was a human form of God. He basically sent his son, it was an offspring of God, but no woman was involved. God is God, he can do what he wants.
Who knows what God's desires are, but we were created in his image, so almost every feeling we have ever had, God has felt it too.
2006-09-13 06:30:59 · answer #10 · answered by lil_troublemaker1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋