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To the average human mind and with our
frail capabilities, it is hard but not impossible, to understand how a person
can be fully God and fully man, possessing both set of characteristic at the
same time. But Jesus was both. There are some things that are outside the
realms of human understanding, but this is not one of those things. In order to
understand this concept we must understand two things: we must first understand
that what is impossible with man is totally possible with God and we must
isolate the characteristics of God and the characteristics of man and see if
they can be contained in the same entity.
What does it takes to be fully man. A man
is comprised of several characteristics and they are:
1.
a
body of flesh
2.
an
emotional state
3.
a
fallen nature (capable of being tempted)
4.
easily
hurt disposition
5.
the
ability to feel physical pain
6.
was
born
7.
live
on earth
8.
be
subject to all the things that man is subject to
In the case of Jesus the Christ, he had
all of these characteristics that constitute a man; but most of all he was
subject to the things that man are subjected to.
Now the next question we must ask
ourselves is what constitutes God, in this case not just any god, but Yahweh
the one true Creator and sustainer of the universe and all there in.
Perfection is what constitutes Yahweh.
Yahweh is perfect in every aspect if his existence every attribute that He has
is perfection personified.
·
He is
perfect in righteousness,
·
He
has all and perfect power: even the power from the sun and the power that his
arch enemy has is his.
·
Perfect
in justice
·
perfect
in Mercy
·
Perfect
in Grace
·
Perfect
in love
·
He is
the perfect warrior
·
Perfect
in peace
·
Perfect
in knowledge (knows everything there is to know about everything)
·
Perfect
in wisdom (knows the perfect application of everything)
·
Perfect
in being (he was not corrupt in body)
In other words, Jesus was God and he
possessed Godly perfection; yet he has all of the characteristics of man. He
had the complex broken nature of man in a defile broken body as all man is born
with. It is important to note that Jesus Christ never defile his body, but the
defilement of his body was simple the consequence of being man. This is the
reality of this situation, here we have a perfect God, who from the beginning
of eternity have existed in the presence of perfection; now, he is forced to
exist for thirty three and a half years in a defile host: MAN.
So we can say that Jesus possessed all of the
characteristics of Yahweh and he also possessed all of the characteristic of
man: in other words he was the perfect paradox.
1.
He
was the High and the low at the same time, (fully God and fully man)
2.
He
was the perfect and the defile simultaneously, (He had the perfection of God
living in a defiled body of man)
3.
He
was the good and the bad. (he had the good nature of God and the Bad nature of
man)
4.
he
had the perfect and the imperfect within him (he had the perfection of God and
the imperfection of man's body)
5.
He
was powerless yet all powerful. (like having money that you commit not to
spend; he had the power of God but was restricted by choice to the capabilities
of man)
6.
He
was everlasting yet he had an end. (he will live forever yet he had to die)
there are many more characteristic that
clearly speak to the nature of Jesus the Savior that are paradox to man but are
in the realms of ordinary to the almighty God: Yahweh.
Another thing we can safely say, is that
Jesus came as Adam left, with a sinful nature and body but he left as Adam came
with a glorified nature and body. This is so for the simple reason: Jesus never
violate the laws of God. With this accomplishment Jesus owned the right to have
his sin tainted body that he had to put on when he became man to be daily
transform into the sinless body that Adam once had.
You may be unanswered questions such as:
1.
Did Jesus
every used his Godly powers? What about all of the miracles?
2.
Did
Jesus ever suffer sexual temptation?
3.
Why Jesus
did come into the world?
4.
Can I
live as Jesus lived?
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