And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us?

Question

The Word was God....and the Word became flesh.

Sometimes we hear people say that Jesus has 2 beings, the divine being and the human being. The human being (the flesh) was not divine, this is the part that prayed to God asking for help and also was the part that 'didnt know The Hour'.
But if the Word was made flesh, surely it is the flesh that is the divine part? The flesh itself being God the Son?

Answer 1

What those people say is not what the Bible says, nor what the Christian Trinity doctrine says.



Orthodox belief claims that the one Being of God subsists in three eternal, co-equal persons - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In the fullness of time, the Son agreed to be sent to Earth as the baby in Mary's womb. He left the Godhead in Heaven and the Holy Spirit enabled this miracle to happen.



What happened was that the Son added human nature to His divine nature. This means He has two natures in the one being. He does not have two beings. He was fully human (so could properly represent humanity before the Father) and He was fully divine (so that He had the magnitude of deity to be 'the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world' - John 1:1-29. He was the eternal Word, with God in the beginning, who is God and who became flesh.



The flesh was human flesh, thus could be put to death. The deity was eternal, preceding and transcending the physical. The flesh that Jesus had was sinless flesh - uncorrupted by sin. So in that sense the Son of God was also the Son of Man - both held together in the incarnation. AiH

Answer 2

What these people say is a heresy that was stamped out a long, long time ago, but now are returning because scholarship and an appreciation and respect for traditional religious beliefs is vanishing in favor of a 'the bible should be simple and easy to understand by everyone without training' mentality in some Protestant circles.



Orthodox belief has held for millenia that Jesus was one being who was both fully human and fully divine. This being was linked in every possible way to itself and its parts were inseparable. When the flesh of Christ suffered, the divinity of Christ suffered. When Christ, through his spirit and divinity, resurrected, his flesh was resurrected as well.



To think otherwise is to believe that God-Jesus was just along for the ride inside of Human-Jesus, and the immortal part of Jesus just sorta sat there inside a dying man without feeling his pain. This would make Christ's sacrifice meaningless.

Answer 3

The Divine Person Jesus is God His two Natures belong to Him. He is the Son of God (Divine Nature) and the Son of Man (Human Nature). The Divine Nature of Jesus always existed in which it's not created (made). The Divine Persons the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God with one Divine Nature. The Son assumed His Human Nature in which His Human Nature was created (made) but unlike ourselves He was made without the taint of original sin (without sin).



I can tell you what the Divine Person Jesus is not is two Persons a Divine Person and a Human Person this heresy is called Nestorianism. There is only one Divine Person Jesus to state there are two would mean there are two Jesus' which is where the error was in the Nestorianism heresy.



The Fullness of the Deity in Bodily Form. The Divine Person Jesus is 100% God and 100% Man.



the Son = Divine Person Jesus



of God = Divine Nature



of Man = Human Nature



Read Scripture like that and you will see things in a different light.

Answer 4

Flesh is but a pixel within the totality that is the divine image of God almighty.

Christ's love

Answer 5

The word is resonance of your vocal cords, and since all in our universe is resonance only, and held together by gravitational magnetic fields, our human body is such an object made of what we call matter.



The human male is the creator, and without him the woman was useless. Those who write the sacred text where macho man, not women. If a woman had had the right to write in the sacred text, it would have told us that GOD, the male can not create anything, not become father, and his penis, his beloved son, was useless without her.



But, that is ancient stories anyway, we have broken that tradition, made Goddesses to suppress GOD, GOD becomes gay and useless, and we fool it all up. The Muslims fight to go back and make man GOD again, just like it is in there culture, but, once more without telling us the truth about this textual nonsense and ruling by fear and terror where GOD is the driving force. And that is true, it are no women that fight for Allah, but man, real ones with long beards, shorter than mine but I am not a fighter for any GOD, for me it is enough to be god myself and fight injustice and share all I have, even my knowledge that is not fitting in the view of religious bigots.



But, that is the way the world is, there are the ones and the others, and we have to live with that. The word is the departure of all, if it had not been, we could not be humans and communicate our truth and lies to others, we could not enslave them and suck their money, we where just animals, and 65% of humanity show us without any doubt that it is exactly what we are, stupid, brainless, killing and destructing, animals.

Answer 6

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—this is what is to be witnessed to in its own due time.



Here Jesus is called a man, not God man,

a corresponding ransom

Ransom

Definition: A price paid to buy back or to bring about release from some obligation or undesirable circumstance. The most significant ransom price is that of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. By paying over the value of that ransom in heaven, Jesus opened the way for Adam’s offspring to be delivered from the sin and death that we all inherit because of the sin of our forefather Adam.

Adam brought imperfection and death to billions, his descendants. Hence, it was understood that a combination of Jesus’ life plus that of all his potential perfect descendants formed a sacrifice equivalent to that of Adam and his imperfect descendants. However, the Bible does not say that any potential offspring of Jesus formed part of the ransom. Romans 5:15-19 makes the point that the death of just “one man” provided the release. Yes, Jesus’ perfect life corresponded to Adam’s. The focus is, and should be, on Jesus Christ alone. It became possible for men of all sorts to receive the free gift and life because of Jesus’ “one act of justification,” his course of obedience and integrity even to death. (2 Cor. 5:14, 15; 1 Pet. 3:18)

Answer 7

This is called the hypostatic union, Jesus is one person with two natures, not to beings. Jesus is God who became Man, thus is both God AND Man.

Answer 8

no the flesh was not divine



the entity that lived in the flesh was divine not the physical body the flesh of jesus

the physical body died but the entity that lived in the physical body exists forever

Answer 9

Jesus did not use his divinity until after his resurrection.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ will not return until all things has been made right! when things all return to Him, he will then rule on this world!