2007-03-22 04:57:17 · 19 answers · asked by Sweetchild Danielle 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The first answerers are skirting around the question. If life is fair, if there is no pre existence in which one can "sin" or learn through karmic interaction, why was Jesus born Jesus and you were born you? To say Jesus is God is avoiding the question.
2007-03-22 05:04:04 · update #1
To "Atheists..." Jesus must be proud of you, moron.
2007-03-22 05:05:40 · update #2
I'm not saying Jesus was born perfect; I'm asking Christians why they think Jesus was born incapable of sin "simply because".
2007-03-22 05:09:10 · update #3
Your original premise is flawed. You say if there is no preexistence, then all things being equal how could He be born as the perfect one. That begs the principle as well. There was no need for a perfect one, a Savior, without there being a premortal existence. The fact is that there was a premortal existence in which God presented a plan for His spirit children. He told us that a world would be created on which we could dwell as mortals to gain experience, to learn right from wrong according to the choices we would make there. Because our memory of life with God would be taken from us, allowing us to live by faith, we would need a perfect Savior to atone for our mistakes in order for us to return to His presence after our mortal sojourn is finished. Thus, Christ was chosen from the beginning to be the perfect example for us to follow. God is where He is because He has come this way before us. He has been where we are and is following the pattern that was established before He was born. Yes, we are on a continuum, a path of eternal progression. As man is, God once was; and as God is, man may become. Thus, all of this was preplanned that there should be God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so that we could learn and return to them. There was no other way.
2007-03-22 05:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by rac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is really a good question. Very hard to answer.
God wasn't born. He is an infinite being. He has no begining and no end. We are His creations; we had a begining. Jesus is God, always was. When He was 'born' He took on the same flesh that we have so that He could dwell with us at our level. Even then, it wasn't with a perfect body, with an attractive physique. The Bible says that He was nothing to special look at. He came into this world humbly. What made him the perfect sacrafice was that He was totally innocent, having no sin Himself. He conquered all temptation and obeyed the Father in all things even to the cross.
We were designed to be perfect. Man (Adam) and God met and conversed face to face before the fall of man. Because of that fall, these bodies are now flawed to the point that if we were to experience God in the physical it would be too much for these bodies to handle. It also causes us to have a very hard time understanding the infiniteness of God. All the things in the Bible were place there to help us understand God to the best capability of our physical, finite brains.
The difference between us and demons is that they were created as spiritual beings only. The other difference is that they do not have the oppertunity of salvation and can never be right with God again. That is why they hate us and try so hard to see us fail and refuse that gift Jesus worked out for us on the cross.
Merit? Well, if you are all there is, the only real God, you become the standard, by definition, by which all else is measured. You would need no one to grant you merit. You are the grantor.
2007-03-22 07:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by jb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not born perfect. His divine half is perfect not because He deserves it (although He did) but simply because He is divine. His mortal half, however, was not perfect. If he had been perfect, then Jesus would not have struggled with his identity as the Messiah as it is recorded in the Bible. But, as a man (even half Man), he could not be expected to be perfect. Like every other man created or born in God's image, he could only hope to be as Christ-like as possible. Since Jesus was the man born to be Christ, it is easy to see how this could potentially be even more difficult than the struggle of the average man to be Christ-like.
As for God "meriting an existence as the Almighty", that is a preposterous idea. One does not have to prove oneself to be Almighty, it is a state of being. God by nature is almighty, and the Almighty.
2007-03-22 05:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by tertiahibernica 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that God got to be god through merit; he became almighty god by default (there was no one else around to dispute him the title). He maintains the right to his title be remaining perfect & blameless (holy). That one reason why sinful people are not allowed into Heaven; evil and God cannot co-exist.
Why was Jesus born sinless? If he wasn't innocent, then he would have been dying for his own sins instead of the sins of other people. Besides, it makes little sense to say that God sins anyway, because how could God disobey himself? Think about it.
Why was I born me? Well, I couldn't be born God Almighty, because the position was taken already.
If you are suggesting that it is unfair that we are born with a sin nature simply because Adam & Eve screwed up, God must have realized that, because he gave us a get out of Hell free card, called salvation, that is free to anyone who wants to accept the conditions that come with it. Lucifer and his angels don't get the same shot at divine amnesty that we get.
2007-03-22 05:25:51 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecies. He is the Word of God (Bread from heaven) who came to earth and put on humanity and dwelt among us.
He was born of a virgin fulfilling an early Prophetic Word of the Womans Seed to defeat the Serpents seed. Jesus is the seed of the Woman, born without sin nature, and was tempted like the first Adam yet without sin.
Because He was without sin, fulfilled the Messianic prophecy & was born to be the Lamb of God and was with out sin. The wages of sin is death. So, death couldn't keep Jesus Christ (without sin) body in the grave. Jesus raised from the dead, the firstborn from the dead.
Jesus is the Word of God, who is in the beginning with God. God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit. Jesus when ascending to the Father told us to preach the Good News to all nations and baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit. The Word of God and the Son of God Is the Same Person of the Trinity. Without any part of the Trinity, creation wouldn't have been created. Elohim (God) the Father, Word & Holy Spirit created the heavens & the earth...
Also, Jesus could have sinned (in His humanity). The first Adam did. But when tempted of the Serpent, He overcame the deception with the written Word. He said, "It is written...". (Jesus confirmed the books of Moses, Psalms & the Prophets.)
2007-03-22 05:33:45 · answer #5 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone had to be the Beginning and the End and He is it.Jesus was born perfect because He was/is/always shall be the Son of God; He doesn't deserve or not deserve based on the concepts that our little minds can grasp.Some things just are, and God and Jesus' divinity is one of those.
2007-03-22 05:05:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was born perfect in order to be the perfect sin offering & the ultimate sacrifice so that whoever wants to be saved can be. God is simply Almighty--always has been, always will be.
2007-03-22 05:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Col a million:15 does not say Jesus replaced into the 1st off God's creations. It says, "the firstborn over all creation." you think of it potential the 1st of God's creations, yet that is not what it says. It says firstborn. that could be a identify. King David replaced into the youngest interior the family individuals (a million Samuel sixteen:11). God observed as him a firstborn additionally. (Psalm 89:20 & 27). Firstborns have inheritance rights. Firstborns are set aside for God. Stuff like that. additionally, Col a million:sixteen says Jesus created all issues. i presumed God created all issues. Col a million:17 says Jesus replaced into till now all issues. i presumed God replaced into till now all issues. Col a million:19 says ALL of God's fullness is in Him. So, if Jesus replaced into not God, how ought to he be till now Abraham? i comprehend for a certainty that I wasn't. observe how the Jews seen Jesus' fact to intend he replaced into claiming to be God? I did.
2016-10-19 08:26:54 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was not born perfect, he was born human, with the help of God's powers. He was sent to our horrible world to die for our sins, and for his good deeds he was allowed to go to heaven and such. If he had just sat around and did nothing it would have been different.
2007-03-22 05:02:00 · answer #9 · answered by Tammy T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Questions, questions, and wonders. Indeed, why Jesus deserved to be the son of God and not a garbage collector, and why God got to be the Almighty and not a bouncer? Questions and more questions...what a life!
2007-03-22 05:01:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋