Do any of you think Jesus was a man who connected with God later in life, and in that way became his son, but was a normal man before?
Wouldn't his teachings be as important either way?
**I'm not trying to offend anyone. If this does not describe you, please disreguard my question.
2007-04-07 18:26:07 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus was fully man and fully God from the very begining- yes His teachings were important but His teachings would have been in vain and meant nothing had He not been the fullness of the Godhead bodily- What He taught was what He lived and who He is- had He not been God from the very begining , He would have been a liar.
2007-04-07 18:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Technically what you have described is a heresy call "adoptionism". I do know some priest and theologians who think that Jesus was the son of Joseph. But that is not the teaching of the church and they are not to teach what they think to the people.
Just between you and me, I am not 100% sure of the party line. What with all of this tomb of Jesus stuff going around it has caused me to think long and hard. I have come to this thought... maybe the party line is true, maybe it isn't. Either way Jesus was an extraordinary man who had a powerful connection with God. And something must have happened to cause the disciples to leave their hiding place and start preaching about His teaching and about His Resurrection. If it were all a lie, I don't think they would have done that. If it were discovered tomorrow that Jesus was just a man and not God, I would be OK with that. I would still be a follower of His teachings.
2007-04-08 01:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had the status of SON before He sojourned the earth. The Spirit within the flesh of Jesus is the SON, not human spirit that kept on developing and then became the SON.
The SON had been together with the Father since the beginning; that's why Jesus' Spirit stated in Rev.1:8 that He is the Alpha and the Omega.
Other teaching than this came from without the Gospel of Jesus; therefore I reject your teaching!
2007-04-08 02:11:56 · answer #3 · answered by autor06hj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You posed a few different questions, but logically...
If He were a man who connected with God later in life, and in that way became His son, but was a normal man before... then it is impossible for His crucifixion and resurrection to have any impact on our eternal destinies whatsoever, as would be necessitated by the Son of God dying. The reasoning for that is, Jesus went through his entire life without sin, not just part of it. Any one of us can go through PART of our lives without sinning.
He was also described in the Bible as teaching the teachers as a young child. Hardly someone who would not connect with God until a later age.
2007-04-08 01:34:10 · answer #4 · answered by chess_sux 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the bible says jesus was sent by god. therefor he was already gods son but god needed him to be on earth so he made mary pregnant with jesus. He was never a normal man. God had a plan for him. I dont think that any normal man could have had teachings like jesus in those days and noone could have been as forgiving and as willing to heal people when knowing he was going to be sacrificed.
hope this helps
2007-04-08 01:32:41 · answer #5 · answered by Maddieee D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
JESUS IS GOD AND WAS GOD FROM THE BEGINNING.
JESUS was never a normal man. Born of a virgin , half GOD and half man. THE MAN GOD.
HE lived a perfect sinless life and gave up HIS LIFE in fulfillment of the LAW, that our sins might be forgiven,
if we believe who HE IS and what HE has done for us.
I look at GOD like a three sided pyramid.
The Trinity, one facet for Jehovah THE FATHER, one facet for YAHWEH THE HOLY SPIRIT, and one facet for Jeshua, JESUS CHRIST.
At the base of the pyramid UNITY, ONE GOD.
At the apex a point sighting to ETERNITY AND INFINITY.
JESUS teachings are of no use if HE was not THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD , EVEN GOD HIMSELF.
JESUS WAS AND IS AND SHALL ALWAYS BE GOD.
Believe in The Lord JESUS.
2007-04-08 01:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by dave777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much of his teaching would be the same, but his life would not. Scripture teaches that God became man (fully God and fully man) so that he could pay the debt for your sin and mine. Since all men sin, a normal man could not die for you and I. God must have loved us an awful lot to die in our place. Jesus was not, and is not, just a man. He is God Himself.
I hope you come to know Him personally,
Phil Debenham
www.OilandWineMinistries.org
2007-04-08 01:42:11 · answer #7 · answered by Rev. Debenham 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% man 100% God he has been around as long as God the father has been. see genises "lets make man in OUR image". let me make myself more clear God the father Jesus christ the son and the holy spirtit these 3 in 1. I can name more passages that describe God as a ""plural"". but we don't have the space here at yahoo answers. as far as his teachings no they would not be the same they would be coming from a lier if he was not actually who he said he was. even the most intelligent person who says the most brilliant things and does remarkable works is cought in one lie his credibility is nothing.
2007-04-08 01:35:05 · answer #8 · answered by lizardman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Christians believe that God was both man and God at the same time. So I would say YES - all Christians believe that Jesus was a man; we believe He was also God at the same time.
2007-04-08 01:30:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi Happykid,
All Christians believe Jesus Christ was a man. He had to be to be able to be the sacrifice without spot. True God/True Man><>
2007-04-08 01:30:33 · answer #10 · answered by CEM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋