Did Jesus really live and experience life as a human?

Question

If he never sinned and had to deal with regret,remorse,and having to say he was sorry then I he could not possibly have known what it was like to be human fully!

Answer 1

The Christian doctrine concerning Jesus' two natures is called the hypostatic union. It is the teaching that the Divine Word of God (John 1:1) "became flesh and dwelt among us," (John 1:14). Therefore, Jesus is both divine and human in one person (Col. 2:9); He has two natures: human and divine. But some who oppose the Trinity and Jesus' incarnation (the Divine Word becoming a man), say that if Jesus is God in flesh this must mean that God's nature changed because God added a human nature to His divine nature. This would violate Malachi 3:6 which says that God does not change. But, the union of the two natures of Jesus in one person does not constitute a change in the nature of God.
Since the hypostatic union teaches that in the one person of Jesus there are two natures, the divine nature of Jesus is not affected by union with the human nature because there is no fusion of the two natures. That is, the divine nature is not combined with the human nature to make a third thing. This would be the error known as monophysitism. Jesus is not a new third thing with a fused-together new nature. Instead, it is a union. An example of a union is marriage between a man and a woman. Each is separate, but in marriage "...they shall become one flesh," (Gen. 2:24), yet they remain two distinct individuals. They are not blended into a new third thing. Fusion, on the other hand, can be illustrated by the combining copper and Zinc that can be fused together to form a new third thing called brass. In this case, the two elements loose their identity and are merged together into something new. But in a union, the elements do not loose their identity or nature. The hypostatic union is not a hypostatic fusion and the two natures of Jesus do not lose their distinction and they are not altered.
Furthermore, within the union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, the divine nature is still divine and the human nature is still human. One is not altered by the presence of the other anymore than my spirit in me is altered in nature by its indwelling a physical body. Likewise, the divine Word is not altered by indwelling human flesh.
Finally, the doctrine of the Trinity is that God is three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This does not mean three gods. There is only one God. The Trinitarian nature of God is not altered by the union of the Word with humanity since it was the divine Word that humbled Himself to become a man (John 1:1,14; Phil. 2:5-8), not the Father or the Holy Spirit. Therefore, by definition the Trinity is unaffected by the union of the Word with humanity in the incarnation of Jesus.

Answer 2

The greatest quote in the Bible that supports his being fully man is when he is on the cross and he asks, "God why has thou forsaken me?"

For support as a whole if you look into Chapter 4 in the book of Luke it discuss' Christ's temptation. He was tempted just like you and I, we are not tempted by bad things we are tempted by the possible good that we may get from doing whatever it is that we are being tempted to do, we in many situations just make the incorrect choice.

The Devil tempted him with turning the stone into bread, this was just not simply for himself as he was hungry, that is the part that was fully man, but the part of him that was fully God had to concider the possibilitys of feeding all the world and having there be no hunger at which time he replied, "Man does not live on bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of God. (This being an example that there is more to exsistance than the here and now and also how God was tempted and did not sin but if he was tempted that goes to show he did feel some sort of remorse for those that would go hungry)

Next we have Satan tempting Christ having him imagine he is at the top of the world, so to speak and can visually see all the nations of the world. He offers Christ lordship over them (Please note: Christ does not refute the idea that Satan has all dominion over the nations). Here we have mans struggle to control his enviroment but what we also have is the temptation of how wonderfull our world could be if controlled by God. No nation is, which explains why there is so much controversy. He rebuked the Devil and replied, "Get thee behind me...thou shalt only worship the Lord thy God". Showing that his Kingdom is not of this place but also showing self control as a man.

The following temptation was to have him imagine he was at the pinnacle of the Church. This is a place where all the "Religious men" of his time would have been hanging out. He asked him to cast himself off of it, this was no small church mind you and if he would have done so all the people there would have had to have delt with the situation and he probably would not have had to die to show his divinity. But then it would not have been the self sacrifical love that is the image he sent but an all powerful being that controls every detail.

The picture of Christ that many forget is the one of him praying on the rock to his Father asking him to "take this cup from me" (talking about the impending suffering he was most likly going to endure) The only differance is he ended that sentance with "your will be done not mine". Where most of us would have said, "please?"

There are many other examples showing this but the end evidence is that Jesus is the only man that was able to stand against temptation. When he said I am the doorway he wasn't kidding.

Summing it up we truly don't have any supporting evidance that says he does not have regret or remorse. He has shown us in many storys in the New testimate that he changed his mind as a result of the prayers of his children and he felt sorrow seeing how his children were being treated. None the less the Devil still tempts man hopeing to draw away from God what little he can before the end. I hope this was helpful in your search and may he be a light unto your path.

I am not a pastor just a saved son, be well.

Answer 3

What makes you think he didn't sin?
He lost his cool in the temple with all the traders.
He had an amazing relationship with Mary Magdelaine.
Dont you think he felt remorse for the human race?
Didn't he appologise for the people who crucified him?
Do you think the crucifixtion would have brought home his own sense of humanity?
Besides all this, the Gospels were handed down from person to person, how can anyone REALLY know the whole story?

Answer 4

I think the whole Jesus story was made up. Myth making at its finest. If you look at the other son of god or messiah myths of the period they all follow the same pattern. It even makes sense to consider that it was the conversion to a Solar calendar and the lay version of the science behind that wich sparked them, The numbers in the stories and the Sol Invictus resonance is far to high to be ignored. The statistical correlations aproach unity.
Consider also that there is no fixing of the time he was born or died, and the fact that Paul in his writings never seemed to consider Jesus as a real person but as an idealized sky personality. It makes much more sense as a parallel to Mithras.

Answer 5

Jesus never sinned because he knew his was a sinner and was at peace with himself. Sin is only sin when it holds you down. The Bible is full of symbolism, they originally passed it down through storytelling (symbolism makes it easier to remember and more interesting), but I am sure Jesus was real. He is, anyway, as long as people believe he is. We are all only here because something believes we are here. We know not what we do because instead of coming to terms with our own sins humans usually make more sins to cover up the old sins, very self destructive.

Answer 6

Jesus felt happiness & grief, & hunger & thirst, yet he was Sinless, & also he was Human born of a virgin birth without sin, Jesus never came down with a cold or the flu, To show the human side of Jesus, When Lazarus died, Jesus wept, That was his human side, But That Spirit of God in Him Raised Lazarus from the grave, Jesus fasted for 40 days, he was hungry after that, But it does not say he was thirsty,, When Jesus hung on the cross, he was thirsty, that was the human part of him. But when he rose from the dead that wa the Spirit of God that dwelled in his body that raised him up.

Answer 7

HELLO! Contrary to the pervasive power of myth, we have NO EVIDENCE whatsoever that Jesus was an alternative lifeform, so

YES! Of course, if Jesus, in fact lived and there' lots of evidence to suggest that Jesus or several Jesuses did live in Palestine around that time, so again,

YES! He could only have been human, as far as we know, and the rest is legend, myth, and fiction.

Legend, myth, and fiction are not necessarilly false -- we just can't and don't need to prove them, because they serve other purposes which transcend evidence and scientific historicism.

Answer 8

He had to deal with the consequences of all our sins, He took them on himself and bore them up on the cross, He even sweated blood over our sins so He sure knows what's it's like being human and to sin, it's deeply hurtful.

Answer 9

JESUS was a true messenger of god like other true messengers, as all other true messengers were pure human beings, so why we should believe that he was not human and son of god?
he spend his life like humans, like most of messengers he was tortured, blamed for spreading new and false religion, he also did migration in order to keep himself save from atrocities against him and his followers.
rest of religions believes that Jesus was not GOD, neither he was son of god, but a true messenger of god.

Answer 10

Liar is in keeping with possibility a stable and erroneous way of talking rational disbelief because it implies reason; delusional would be extra precise. Your "very own studies" are your interpretation of activities that occurred interior selection of your senses, and are for this reason open to psychological phenomena which includes confirmation and bear in mind bias, and confabulation. to place that into context, while an outstanding declare is made (as an occasion "extraterrestrial beings approached me and asked for instructions to the closest inter-dimensional wormhole", or "I witnessed an amputee's arm improve back while the pastor prayed for him"), we are presented with 2 common responses; a million) we are able to settle for that reaction as authentic, or 2) we are able to reject it as fake. so as to settle for the declare, we would desire to confirm it as extra in all probability than the techniques. Now, at the same time as UFOs are notably not likely, human beings mendacity approximately them isn't (human beings lie all the time). And at the same time as faith healing is going against our obtrusive interpretation of the universe, the possibility that ones cognitive biases have brought about one to mis-interpret the actual adventure is totally achieveable. as a consequence, you're extra in all probability to be mendacity or delusional than you're to be giving a correct portrayal of activities, and for this reason your perspectives would be rejected for those reasons.