2007-05-28 08:03:56 · 23 answers · asked by carl 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nothing, really. It's just an old myth. This is Christianty's way of attempting to personalize the idea of "God". It really doesn't make sense when you think of it. However, it does strike a chord with many people, and such emotional tugs are effective. Humans have been emotional animals for far longer than rational ones.
2007-05-28 08:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
There have been several heresies that taught that Jesus was not really a human being. Some thought that he just looked like a human but was in fact pure spirit and his "body" was some kind of astral projection. Another heresy is the belief that Jesus was an ordinary human and not divine at all. This belief is very prevalent today. The Church has always taught that Christ is 100% human and 100% divine, two natures combined into one. This is intuitively obvious if you read the account of how he was conceived. His mother was Mary (she was the source of his humanity) and his father was literally God (there was no human father) so it becomes easier to see how Jesus was both human and God at the same time. It is because He was human that he was tempted, experienced hunger and pain, laughed, and wept, and thus knows what we go through in this life. It is because He was God that he is sinless and perfect, and is able to forgive our sins. It should give us courage and peace to know that our Lord and God was once a man like us in all things but sin.
2007-05-28 08:19:19 · answer #2 · answered by morkie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The hypostatic union is the term used to describe how God the Son, Jesus Christ, took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time. Jesus always had been God (John 8:58; 10:30), but at the incarnation Jesus took on human flesh - He became a human being (John 1:14). The addition of the human nature to the divine nature is Jesus, the God-man. This is the hypostatic union, Jesus Christ, one Person, fully God and fully man.
Jesus' two natures, human and divine, are inseparable. Jesus will forever be the God-man, fully God and fully human, two distinct natures in one Person. Jesus' humanity and divinity are not mixed, but are united without loss of separate identity. Jesus sometimes operated with the limitations of humanity (John 4:6; 19:28) and other times in the power of His deity (John 11:43; Matthew 14:18-21). In both, Jesus' actions were from His one Person. Jesus had two natures, but only one person or personality.
The doctrine of the hypostatic union is an attempt to explain how Jesus could be both God and man at the same time. It is ultimately, though, a doctrine that we are incapable of fully understanding. It is impossible for us to fully understand how God works. We, as finite human beings, should not expect to be able to comprehend an infinite God. Jesus is God’s Son in that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). But that does not mean Jesus did not exist before He was conceived. Jesus always has existed (John 8:58; 10:30). When Jesus was conceived, He became a human being in addition to being God (John 1:1,14).
Jesus is both God and man. Jesus has always been God, but He did not become a human being until He was conceived in Mary. Jesus became a human being so that He could identify with us in our struggles (Hebrews 2:17) and, more importantly, so that He could die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins (Philippians 2:5-11). In summary, the hypostatic union teaches that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, that there is no mixture or dilution of either nature, and that He is one united Person, forever.
Recommended Resource: The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns
2007-05-28 08:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
man is made up of three parts: the soul, the spirit, and the body. Jesus had all three. Jesus was also tempted in the areas humans are and was subject to human authority, the laws of nature and physics and had to deal with things of the body like a human would, not like God normally would. for example, pain: God feels emotional pain yeah, but He doesn't have those pain-recepting nerves we do. so imagine God coming down and having nails driven into His hands. kind of a shocker.
He was 100% God because Jesus Christ came from God, literally. God literally took a part off of Himself and placed it in a soul. His essense, His mind, all embodied into an 'ethereal' form of man, having a human mind, a will, and emotions. so He was 100% God
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2007-05-28 08:09:56 · answer #4 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If one is a believer in God, they believe that God is Almighty, able to do anything at any time for any reason (for His reason). Jesus is God incarnate. He is the Son part of God that came to earth and became a male human being. In the OT it has been known to mankind that if one is to see the face of God they will certainly die. In order for man not to die and to see God, God became man=Jesu Christ. So Jesus is 100% God and 100% man. God incarnate.
I hope this helps you to understand better.
2007-05-28 08:16:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was a perfect human. Jesus is not God, he is the Son of God in that Jehovah sent his Son from heaven to be born as a perfect human, able to pay the ransom price for Adam's lost perfect life. Jesus was an angel in heaven, God's only begotten Son, before coming to earth. Jehovah transferred the life of Michael into the womb of Mary, so that he could be born human.
2007-05-28 08:10:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
he is 100% man because he was a human. He is 100% God because he found enlightenment and became god.
Christians dont agree with the above statement, they say it is because he was born to mary, a virgin through God, therefore he was 100% man but 100% God. But that doesnt make sense, then he would be 50/50 wouldnt he?
He said in one of the gospels, "Do you not know that you are gods?"
We all have the potential to be God. God is within. Jesus found that enlightenment that most never will.
2007-05-28 08:12:44 · answer #7 · answered by Mo 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It implies that Jesus (who is also God on earth as well as the Holy Spirit) in the belief of the Holy Trinity....was the only person ever on earth to be completely free of sin. ie: True man
2007-05-28 08:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was referred to as the son of man and the son of God.
He was the physical son of Joseph and Mary and the Christ Spirit son of God who was incarnated in him for three years and who became one with the Father God. Two became one.!
Rev. TomCat
2007-05-28 08:17:14 · answer #9 · answered by Rev. TomCat 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Christ is the "I AM" or God Himself in a visible body.
"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." -- Colossians 2:9
"Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" -- John 14:9
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you Before Abraham was, I AM." -- John 8:58
2007-05-28 08:07:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋