Jesus is amazing. He not only performed incredible miracles whenever He wanted to, but He spoke powerfully to the people as well. In no instance did Jesus ever sin, in no case did Jesus ever cease to be perfect. Jesus is fully human and fully God. But how can that be? Isn't Jesus, as the Son of God, a demigod? Shouldn't Jesus be part man and part God? How can He be 100% man, and 100 % God at the same time?
Furthermore, if Jesus is 100% man and 100% God, doesn't that mean that He is both limited and unlimited at the same time? Doesn't that mean that He simultaneously is all knowing and not all-knowing?
Mark 13:32 states:" But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." So does this mean that Jesus is not omniscient? However, John 21:17 says," Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him for the third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.'" Paul sums up Jesus' divinity and humanity the best in Philippians 2:5-11. Jesus' mission was to show us how to live, so He humbled himself. Jesus did not feel we should understand Godhood; He did feel we should understand our God's will and desire for us. What's important to Jesus should be important to us.
David Matthis suggest, "He has both an infinite, divine mind and a finite human mind... Paradoxical as it is, we affirm that Jesus both knows all things and doesn't know all things. For the unique, two-natured person of Christ, this is no contradiction but a peculiar glory of God-man."
Living Life
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
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