Sampson had super-strength. Why didn't Jesus? He had all kinds of other powers: walking on water, turning water into wine, healing the sick/lame.
2007-12-26 06:17:20 · 21 answers · asked by ►solo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He got more of Mary's physique DNA; that's the major difference between him and Hercules.
2007-12-26 06:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had all of the power of God at his fingertips, but that wasn't the purpose of his birth, life, ministry, or death. He was still human, using his divine power as needed. By healing the blind and deaf, raising Lazarus and a little girl from the dead, walking on water, turning water into wine at a wedding feast, calming a storm while at sea fishing, healing lepers, casting out demons, rising from the dead, turning just a couple fish and loaves of bread into enough to feed 3,000 people... dang, how much more divine power should he have had?
Sure, Samson had superhuman strength, but even he only had it under certain circumstances: never cutting his hair and being dedicated to God. And in his imperfection, he told the "evil" Delilah his weakness, thus sealing his own fate. Not a very good superhero or superpower when it can all be taken away with a snip of the scissors.
2007-12-26 06:34:06 · answer #2 · answered by ♛Qu€€n♛J€§§¡¢a♛™ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The supernatural part is clearly the fictional part. Why not remember the message, rather than the story or the personality? Even if JC is a total fiction, at the heart of his story is what's important--the Sermon on the mount. It is in no way diluted because JC was not God, or even if he was not an historical reality.
2007-12-26 07:30:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe he did, but like Clark Kent on Smallville, he hadn't discovered all his powers yet. But then he couldn't have been nailed to a cross, since the nails would've bent. Unless the nails were made from Kryptonite. Good question!
2007-12-26 06:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by yerfavoritefiddler 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heh, I agree. As an immortal and perfect being, you think that possessing super-strength should have been one of his miracles. I guess his Dad ("God") didn't want him to dominate or control humans. Or else Jesus out of survival instinct would have resisted being nailed on the cross.
2007-12-26 06:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Daemon 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think he didn't have supernatural strength?
John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
He had to have been pretty tough.
2007-12-26 06:24:15 · answer #6 · answered by Caveman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did sampson rise from the dead, walk around for 3 days then ascend into heaven.....whoa thats pretty supernatural to me :)
2007-12-26 06:34:06 · answer #7 · answered by King J 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Performing the nth degree of the atonement without going into shock and dying is supernatural strength.
2007-12-26 06:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by daisyk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was given only what He needed. I'm sure that if he needed super strength to prove himself He would have had no problem recieving it.
2007-12-26 06:22:48 · answer #9 · answered by HC Johnson 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He could have used any power He wished. He chose to live as a human except when He performed His miracles.
2007-12-26 06:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anna P 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋