He is perfect if you don't count the moneychanger incident.
2007-06-14 11:19:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kinda like....... How can Catholic priests give marital advice when they can't marry? Jumpin Jehosephat!!
I think people NEED Jesus to be perfect or else he's just like one of us.
2007-06-14 11:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Mike Miguel 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, Christians believe that Jesus was "fully human" AND "fully divine." It's thought of as a "sacred mystery." Besides the moneychanger incident, think of his time in the Garden of Gethsemane when he begged God to let him out of dying on the cross. That was a pretty "human" moment! Yet the Bible describes many divine moments also.
The whole point of Christianity is that Jesus became one of us and then redeemed our sins by sacrificing himself for us. The sacrifice of a divine being would necessarily make up for everything bad we (his fellow humans) had done.
The larger message would be that if a divine being's whole goal in becoming human was not to "conquer" but instead to demonstrate selfless love of his fellow human beings, then that must be what we were all put on earth to do.
Those are some of the beliefs of Christianity that require that we accept that Jesus could be divine and human at the same time. Therefore we humans approach divinity as we approach Jesus' ability to care more for others than he did for his own life.
2007-06-14 18:27:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anne M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing wrong with kicking money changers out of church.
Anyway, you relate to Jesus (and vice-versa) the same way you relate to anyone: you relate to your similarities. Perfect or not, Jesus had many common characteristics with everyone else. He cared about the people around him. He worked hard. He went through difficult times. He valued his friends. He tried to make his world a better place than it was. He was a good person, and taught us to be the best people we can be. If you can't relate to that on some level, then you've got a problem.
2007-06-14 18:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The "moneychanger incident" was righteous indignation/anger and zeal for His Father's house. It wasn't sin.
We can relate to Jesus and He to us because He lived a human life and was tempted in every way we are, so He understands what we go through. He is indeed perfect... God in the flesh... and paid the price for our sins with his sacrifice. Through Christ we can have peace with God, who would otherwise be bound by his own righteousness to punish us all as sinners.
2007-06-14 18:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by doppler 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What made the moneychangers being driven out of the courtyard considered imperfect? Because He does not fit your mold?
When we accept Christ as our personal Savior, we are washed and cleansed of sin. Before God we are perfect, not because of what we have done, but because of what Christ did on the cross. I can now relate to Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. It is a relationship borne out of His love for me.
John 15:15
"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you."
2007-06-14 18:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was perfect in the money changer incident. He demonstrated God's righteous anger.
Jesus is man so he relates to our human weakness- our need for food, water, sleep, we get tired, etc.
2007-06-14 18:22:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i believe that the difinition we have of perfect is a little off. When we think of perfect we think no mistakes or a clean slate, well think of it like this, when you take a test you might make a mistake but you go back and change it and when you turn your paper in you get a perfect score right? Think of Jesus as perfecting the mistakes that we make
2007-06-14 18:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by lala07 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was perfect. But he was also human, meaning he faced all the same joy, all the same pain, and all the same temptations that we face. That's how we can relate to him, and that's why he is the perfect example for us to follow. Furthermore, to my fellow Christians, he also faced all the same persecution (and then some) for God's Will that we as Christians must face.
2007-06-14 18:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why must you be so ignorant!! It would help if you would do your homework before asking your question. Did you even bother to read anything in the Bible, or are you just going off of what you have heard!! Even the atheist are smart enough to get their facts straight!!! It's people like you who degrade any attempt at intelligence on this particular site.
2007-06-14 19:40:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
how can He relate? He got angry, He was moved when His friend died, He walked like a human, talked like a human, felt pain like a human, He ate, He rested, He got annoyed, He had friends, He had enemies.... need I go on?
if someone was using your place for something detestable to you, wouldn't you get angry and drive them out? He never hurt anyone, just scared them and drove them out. part of perfection is knowing what to do when the line is crossed...
2007-06-14 18:24:32 · answer #10 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋