Why is the humanity of Jesus important?
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Why is the humanity of Jesus important? What is the danger of denying the true humanity of Jesus?
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- Why is the humanity of Jesus important? We're going to answer that question.
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- You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org. The humanity of Jesus is as equally important as the deity of Jesus.
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- Jesus was born as a human being while still being totally divine. The concept of the humanity of Jesus coexisting with his deity is difficult for the finite mind of man to comprehend.
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- Nevertheless, Jesus' nature, holy man and holy God, is a biblical fact.
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- There are those who reject these biblical truths and declare that Jesus was a man, but not
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- God. Ebionism. Deceitism is the view that Jesus was
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- God, but not human. Both viewpoints are unbiblical and false. Jesus had to be born as a human being for several reasons.
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- One is outlined in Galatians. But when the time had fully come, God sent his
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- Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
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- Only a man could be born under the law. No animal or angelic being is under the law.
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- Only humans are born under the law, and only a human being could redeem other human beings born under the same law.
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- Born under the law of God, all humans are guilty of transgressing that law.
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- Only a perfect human, Jesus Christ, could perfectly keep the law and perfectly fulfill the law, thereby redeeming us from that guilt.
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- Jesus accomplished our redemption on the cross, exchanging our sin for his perfect righteousness.
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- Another reason Jesus had to be fully human is that God established the necessity of the shedding of blood for the remission of sins.
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- The blood of animals, although acceptable on a temporary basis as a foreshadowing of the blood of the perfect God -man, was insufficient for the permanent remission of sin because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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- Jesus Christ, the perfect Lamb of God, sacrificed his human life and shed his human blood to cover the sins of all who would ever believe in him.
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- If he were not human, this would have been impossible. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet was without sin.
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- Only a human could sympathize with our weaknesses and temptations. In his humanity,
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- Jesus was subjected to all the same kinds of trials that we are, and he is, therefore, able to sympathize with us and to aid us.
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- He was tempted, he was persecuted, he was poor, he was despised, he suffered physical pain and he endured the sorrows of a lingering and most cruel death.
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- Only a human being could experience these things, and only a human being could fully understand them through experience.
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- Declaring that Jesus has come in the flesh is the mark of a spirit from God, while the
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- Antichrist and all who follow him will deny it. Jesus has come in the flesh.
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- He is able to sympathize with our human frailties. His human blood was shed for our sins, and he was fully
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- God and fully man. These are biblical truths that cannot be denied.
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- That answers the question, why is the humanity of Jesus important? On our website,
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