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Originally Posted by ravenradiodj
asexual teetoltaler (well, according to the Baptists) who never had girlfriend problems or any other real human problems, yet He supposedly came down to experience what being a human was all about. How could he have? He didn't have many actual human experiences...
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Whoa. I'm sure Baptist, and i'm quite aware that not only is Jesus God's Christ, an offer of salvation to all humankind, but that he had liver we could all be impressed with.
I don't know how people read those texts and get the idea that he was a world renoucer. Incarnation is the biggest scandal of the bible...that God would be here...in our messy world, and live in it. Go read it...don't just do it from memory. Go, actually get the book and read. I know...but it matters. The stories have been told too many times the way you say...but that's NOT what the book actually says. He goes to parties and gets drunk. He hangs out with lepers and whores. He argues with friends. He changes his mind about what his ministry means...becuase of what a gentile woman says.
if someone teaches that Jesus didn't have human experience, they are heretics. and i mean that in the nicest possible way...but they are in commission of an ancient heresy called docetism. the church has long held that Jesus didn't simply appear human, but was fully of our existance.