Question for Roman Catholics about the Divinity of Jesus Christ.?

Question

It is said in the Dei Verbum, a dogma released by the church that Christ is both human and divine.

We all agree that humanity is subordinate to divinity. If Christ supposedly is both, then doesn't his human aspect make him somewhat less than God the Father?

And Roman Catholics even believe that the components of the Trinity are equal... :/

If Christ is both human and God, then he can't be as a whole God; making him more than a human but less than a God.

The concept of God shows a perfect being. Being human is an imperfection since we are finite beings. If Christ is human, then he can't be God!

I'm really having doubts. Can someone sort this out?

Answer 1

Matthew 5:48 Jesus said become perfect as the Father is perfect.
Jesus tried to explain to the disciples at Mt Sinai that humanity didn't have to be a reflection of all that is weak and fallible. His whole sermon on the mount was to give them the tools to reach perfection. Therefore humanity and divinity are overlapping concepts. Even the human can attain perfecton according to Jesus. Since he was both human (worn through a womb in the flesh) and Divine (created directly by God in that womb) then he was the example for us to attain.

Answer 2

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity states there is one true God who is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

And, as you have stated, Jesus Christ, God the Son, was totally God and totally man.

This is a seeming contradiction but remember this is God we are talking about and just because we cannot fully understand it with our puny minds does not make it false.

This is one the Christian mysteries. There is a story told about St Augustine:

Augustine was walking along the seashore trying to figure out the mystery of the Holy Trinity and came up to a little boy. The boy was trying to pour the ocean into a hole in the sand with a seashell. Augustine told the boy what he was doing was impossible. Then the little boy told Augustine that it is also impossible for the mind of man to try to understand the mystery of the Holy Trinity. The little boy turned into an angel and disappeared.

For more information, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 232 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p2.htm#232

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ is not part God and part man, nor is he a confused mixture of the divine and the human. The Church fought these heresies by clarifying the truth that Jesus Christ is true God and true man.

Jesus' "human nature was assumed, not absorbed". Therefore, the Church teaches the full reality of Christ's human body and human soul (with intellect and will). Yet, Christ's human nature belongs to the Son of God. Christ's actions in his human nature derive from "one of the Trinity." Jesus communicates to his human nature his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. "The Son of God acted with a human will and loved with a human heart" (Second Vatican Council).

Knowing God's Plan
By union with the Word, Jesus knew what pertains to God, especially in his immediate knowledge of the Father (Mk 14:36) and in his divine penetration into men's secrets (Mk 2:8).

Christ enjoyed a full understanding of the eternal plan, which he came to reveal. He didn't know what he was not sent to reveal (e.g. the time of restoring the Kingdom to Israel) (Acts 1:7).

Having Two Wills
Christ possessed two wills, divine and human. These are not opposed to each other. They cooperate so that the Word made flesh willed humanly all that he had already decided divinely with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Christ's human will "submits to his divine and almighty will" (Third Council of Constantinople).

Peace and blessings!

Source:
Catechism of the Catholic Church

Answer 4

You sound like a program, using all these nonsense terms. Therefore I will give you a lesson in social behavior.

Every skilled trade and profession has it own language, this language is used to keep all others out.

Doctors use terms that make their profession look great in the eyes of men. Lawyers, tax collectors, plumbers, carpenters, etc, all have their own language this is what separates them from every other group.

The Catholic church is no different, they use a language that separates them from all other religions, so they will appear mystical and God-like in the sight of men. 85 % of all masses is ritual and about the Catholic beliefs, 14 % is the Catholic Church collecting donations and tithes, I % is about Jesus.

Just about every Church is like this.

Answer 5

Simply put: Christ is FULLY man and FULLY God, in whole and not in part. His divinity perfects His humanity.

Answer 6

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is being sure of what you hope for and being certain of what you do not see.

Have faith, bro.