Is he a human or a something else?
2006-10-12 20:41:29 · 16 answers · asked by hassanjoad 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Let's start with a simpler question; then proceed to your more profound one.
Who is your father? Who is my father? Do we know?
For most of us there is the man who sired or adopted us--who probably made many sacrifices on our behalf, maybe a flight to Egypt, a resettlement in Nazareth, or something comparable. Call that father Joseph.
If we are fortunate, there are other father figures along the way, surrogate fathers, who pick us out of the crowd, point us on our way, prepare us for our days in the wilderness. In my case there was a basketball coach, a 4-H leader, an undergraduate advisor, my first department chair, the professors who help me discover myself, mentors who guided me when I didn't know I needed guidance. Let me call them John the Baptizer, if you will.
Then all of us are little chunks of mind and matter, finite, mortal, changeable. Somehow we were drawn from the Infinite, the Eternal, the Absolute. "In the beginning . . . " we were, well, who knows? An idea, a dream, a possibility, a word? Some of us call the Infinite One, God. Some of us think of ourselves as children of that God, inevitably returning to him/her one of these days.
Some of us may long for the day when we hear a Voice, thundering in our consicousness, saying, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." Visionaries from Lao Tzu and Gautama Buddha through St. Bernard and St. Teresa, to Jakob Boehme and William Blake, heard that voice loud and clear, and gave their lives to translating its message for the rest of us.
Some of us hear "a still small voice," whispering, "Come unto me, ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Call that voice Spirit, if you will. " . . . the mind of the Spirit is life and peace." "The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are children of God . . . ." [Rom 8.6, 16]
So who is Jesus's father? I believe that Jesus was one who taught us all to seek and respect all these fathers: our Joseph, our John the Baptizers, the Infinite One, Spirit. And he taught not in word only but in modeling for us the life of the Son: the son of Joseph (to whom ultimately he said, as we all do, "I must be about my Father's business"), the surrogate son and successor of John his forerunner, the Son of the Infinite One, the Son who lives on in Spirit and continues to speak of life and peace, and of our sonship.
Who is Jesus's father? He said, "I am in the Father and the Father in me." Jesus said, "I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." [John 14.10, 20]
Though I have been a father myself now for many years, and a grandfaher, I am still my father's child and my Father's, and will always be, all my fathers'. A still, small voice within me whispers still, "I believe; help Thou mine unbelief."
2006-10-12 21:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The "Immaculate Conception" refers to the fact that Jesus was conceived in Mary by, many believe, the Holy Spirit of God. Though beliefs vary in different denominations, evangelical Christians traditionally hold that Jesus was fully human, and at the same time, fully God. He is the Son of God, so that would make his father God, but his earthly father, the man who raised him along with Mary, was Joseph. His lineage is traced through Joseph in the Bible as well.
2006-10-12 20:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by b b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't Jesus say that he is the son of God?
Thereby, doesn't that make God his father?
Of course, there's always the Dead Sea Scrolls which list Joesph as Jesus' father... I guess you have to decide which of the two documents has greater historical credibility.
2006-10-12 20:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by mjdoubled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon what religion you believe!
If you are Christian you'd have to believe that God was his father literally, and not just figuratively.
Divine intervention 'virgin' conception. The bible states that an "Angel came down" and created Mary to be "with child".... Hmmmmmmm?
2006-10-12 20:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by Gater 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His father should be God. Depends what u believe. Some believe he is just a prophet whereas some believe he is the son of god.
2006-10-12 21:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by Sob Sob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on the story it was Joseph the carpenter of Nazereth.
He was human like you and me who mastered our creator's universal gifts of life on planet earth.
2006-10-12 20:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Almighty, if you are a christian. Haven't you ever heard of the Mother of Jesus, Virgin Mary. She did not sleep with anyone, but God used her to carry his son, Jesus.
2006-10-12 20:50:18 · answer #7 · answered by Jade22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be the confusion can be settled once for all by exhuming his body and doing DNA. And then clone? We need more than one Jesus these days.
2006-10-12 21:19:41 · answer #8 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's the Angel Gabriel.
2006-10-12 20:59:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anon O Mus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god, alledgedly,a omnipotent being of indeternible genitic makeup, who knows everything, before you do it,who sees everything, who created everything, including the things yet to be discovered.
i would have asked who was gods mother. LF
2006-10-12 20:48:38 · answer #10 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋