As God is almighty isn't it illogical for him to appear amongst people in human form as some Christians say? Isn't a messenger enough? He can make his messenger act as however he likes?
This is like a Great Great King going inside a community of coal workers to check how they are doing? Why would he need to do it? If he can see everything and send messengers and hear them talking?
I just can't understand this. It really doesn't make sense for me to accept a human as God...
2007-11-04 09:14:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct.
It is a pagan concept and foreign to the Abrahamic message of Monotheism.
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2007-11-04 09:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The best answer I have ever received on that question is the following.
Imagine yourself as God, and that you have just created a new species, ants. As you watch the ants you see that some are heading for danger, be it a spider, a bigger bug, or say a puddle of water. You cannot tell the ant to turn around because he wont understand you. You cant put your finger on him and move him to where you want him to go because you would crush him. So what you do is turn yourself into an ant so you can talk to him.
I know this is a VERY simplified view, but that is the beauty of it. Simplicity.
2007-11-04 09:39:32 · answer #2 · answered by dale_skidmore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not need himself to be a human--we did. We needed a king who would come humbly and be obediant to death on the cross to be the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world. God is not human, but His son did come to earth in human form for a time to reveal Himself as the way, the truth, and the life. He now is in heaven at the right hand of God the Father, intercedeing for us. I am glad that I have a Lord that was willing to come on His own and do what had to be done for the atonement of the sins of mankind.
2007-11-04 09:30:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For humans to be saved from the penalty of sin, someone has to bear the punishment. Unfortunately, no human is able to deliver because to qualify one has to be sinless. To remedy the situation, the holy God Himself or a sinless angel had to do it but He or any angel was not able because to qualify one had to be human. To qualify to be the Savior of the world, one has to be a sinless human being. So God "came down" and lived on earth as a sinless human being. His name is Jesus the Christ-- true God and true Man. He died as our substitute. Through his death, we obtain our salvation from the penalty, power and presence of sin.
Before Jesus came, God sent His messengers, like Moses and the prophets. Jesus is not only the last messenger, he is the Message.
2007-11-04 09:50:02 · answer #4 · answered by Averell A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, even to begin to answer your question, you must first decide if the Christian story is literally true. Do you know that the vast majority of world religions have their main God impregnating a female by non-sexual means who then gives birth to a Son who dies to save the world? The Jesus story was being told thousands and thousands of years before Christ was even born.
But to the point of your question: I believe the Christ story was written that way so that Christians could better identify with the Christian God, to feel a closer connection. If you believe Jesus was the son of God and he suffered the same temptations that Christians deal with daily, you will feel that He better understands your troubles.
2007-11-04 09:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by September 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason that God sent himself in human form, or Jesus, is so that he could show his love his love for us and save us. God is not human in general, he created humans.
He sent Jesus because He loves us. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16.
Everyone wants to be loved. But sometimes, love is given only if it is earned. It wasn’t like that with God. He loved us when we didn’t deserve it. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8. Some people feel unloved. Where love has been sought ... none was found. However, we don’t have to feel that way. We are loved ... God loves us.
Motivated by love, God sent Jesus to provide the free gift of eternal life. And that eternal life is more than living forever. The Bible makes it clear that everyone will live forever ... no one will be extinguished. What is God’s gift of eternal life? Jesus defined it as, “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3. His gift of eternal life is a personal relationship with Him ... one that continues into eternity. But if we refuse His gift, we will suffer His wrath, John 3:36 ... and we will be separated from Him forever, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9.
Why did God send Jesus to us? God sent Him because He loves us and because He wants to give the gift of eternal life to us ... a relationship with Him for all of eternity.
2007-11-04 09:25:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because God had to make hiself "real" for us. Jesus was God in the flesh and felt like we felt, suffered like we suffered and was tempted like we were tempted. This way we were able to identify with him. The only thing different about Jesus and us was that he was the Son of God and he never sinned. But he HAD to come as man so he could identify with us.
2007-11-04 09:28:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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. 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.
2007-11-04 09:24:17 · answer #8 · answered by Silver 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Awesome Question!!!
Your transparency in asking this question is no less than spectacular!
Do yourself a favor and read the book of John, in the Bible's New Testament. I know it could take you a while, but you owe it to yourself to answer such an excellent subject. My answers wouldn't do this question the justice it deserves.
With questions like these, you would make an excellent Bible student.
2007-11-04 09:41:50 · answer #9 · answered by chapel247 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great question.
short answer. Jesus was the only PERFECT way to communicate everything god wanted us to hear. (this is my belief FYI)
key word is communicate. I'm a professional sales person, so I know the way people think they want to be talked to and the way they listen. think about that a while I guess.
2007-11-04 09:41:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great point. Truly monotheistic religions have simple, straightforward theology versus the Christian doctrine of the trinity.
2007-11-04 13:19:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋