Jesus Was Human
Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:
For way too much of my life, I gave tacit assent to the fact that Jesus was a human being while really seeing him as more divine. After all with the virgin story and what the church was teaching me, how could I think anything else? Jesus was a god, the God, and therefore different than me. Even if he was all divine and all human, have you considered the implications of His HUMANITY?
Since Jesus was HUMAN, He had to DIE! Can you grasp that?
Ponder that one outside of any religious glasses if possible. God didn’t kill Jesus, humanity did, and more specifically the religious crowd who simply could not handle GRACE! Hey, we still can’t handle GRACE. It’s just too big, too immense, too unbelievable to embrace. Grace is scandalous.
How could a loving Father (even if God) kill His own Son?
How could that which God asks of us (unlimited forgiveness) not ask of Himself? How could God tell us not to kill a son (Abraham), or anyone, and then He do it Himself. Come on, think RATIONALLY here, not religiously. You don’t have to depart from sane thinking to accept that God created the world and loves ALL the world. Why would He create that which He was going to destroy?
In Jesus, human nature came to it’s ultimate potential which means that you and I now have a model, we have a pattern, and have someone to truly FOLLOW! Yes, Jesus was divine, a divine human and that’s your calling and mine as well. Will we be more responsive than we have?
So, let’s quit putting off until tomorrow that which we should be doing today- living as divine humans!
Eugene
For way too much of my life, I gave tacit assent to the fact that Jesus was a human being while really seeing him as more divine. After all with the virgin story and what the church was teaching me, how could I think anything else? Jesus was a god, the God, and therefore different than me. Even if he was all divine and all human, have you considered the implications of His HUMANITY?
Since Jesus was HUMAN, He had to DIE! Can you grasp that?
Ponder that one outside of any religious glasses if possible. God didn’t kill Jesus, humanity did, and more specifically the religious crowd who simply could not handle GRACE! Hey, we still can’t handle GRACE. It’s just too big, too immense, too unbelievable to embrace. Grace is scandalous.
How could a loving Father (even if God) kill His own Son?
How could that which God asks of us (unlimited forgiveness) not ask of Himself? How could God tell us not to kill a son (Abraham), or anyone, and then He do it Himself. Come on, think RATIONALLY here, not religiously. You don’t have to depart from sane thinking to accept that God created the world and loves ALL the world. Why would He create that which He was going to destroy?
In Jesus, human nature came to it’s ultimate potential which means that you and I now have a model, we have a pattern, and have someone to truly FOLLOW! Yes, Jesus was divine, a divine human and that’s your calling and mine as well. Will we be more responsive than we have?
So, let’s quit putting off until tomorrow that which we should be doing today- living as divine humans!
Eugene
