lemon, I would like to take you people who say you shouldn’t comment on something and tear your ears off and stuff them down your throat.
Who do think these godlike people are who SHOULD comment on things?
Now to your point:
I believe that Jesus was wholly a man.
I even hope he was not perfect man, because a perfect man couldn’t understand me any better than Jehovah could.
Jesus hungered, he thirsted, and, though I might be burned at the stake for saying it, he lusted, too.
Because he hungered and thirsted and he lusted, he knew how to tell us what to do about it, as you say.
The Old Testament begins by saying that God made us in his image.
The New Testament begins by telling us that God’s son was begotten and that he was a man.
Jesus understood us far too well for someone who was not one of us.
#1 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/11/2005 - 10:17 pm
Christ was both God (Immanuel, God with us) and a man (For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin – Hebrews 4:15).
#2 by Elizabeth on 11/11/2005 - 10:40 pm
One way to more fully appreciate His taking on
flesh and walking among us — just think of
what babies and children have to put up with
as part of being babies and children —
It’s no piece of cake being a grown up, but
we don’t usually get as sick as little children
when we do get sick, and we can usually control
what happens to us. Children can’t control what
happens to them. (What I’m trying to say would
work better if I were more graphic, but I
think that might be misunderstood.)