Was Jesus Human? (was Re: Inerrancy)

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---Dave Gaban <drrod@slip.net> wrote:

>

> Tim Taylor wrote:

> > 

> > > Dave G.

> > > What he did for US????? What kind of sacrifice did Jesus make

for US! First of all, although he is "of the flesh", he is still the
1/3 of a God! He would have known the "real" truth, HE would have
known he didn't misinterpret what God meant, HE knew he would rejoin
GOD INC., HE was never at risk of spending eternity in Hell, HE never
suffered any disease, starvation, etc, etc.  Crusifixion would be a
cakewalk for Jesus.  He should have experienced every form of
suffering and death,

> maybe then I would be impressed.  His death only took one day!  Some

> of us endure years of suffering before death comes as a welcome end.

> Some BIG sacrifice the Father made.  Being the other 1/3 of GOD

INC., He

> was never "really" without Jesus.  And after the "death" of Jesus, the

> Father was reunited with Jesus! Where is the SACRIFICE!??

> > >

> > 

> > Tim,

> Top ten reasons Jesus didn't experience what is was like to be human:

> > 

> 1. He never got divorced

> 2. His wife never died of breast cancer

> 3. His child was never abducted and murdered in a ditch.

> 4. His child was never drafted and disintegrated by a mortar shell.

> 5. He never grew old and experienced arthritis.

> 6. He never fed his cancer-ridden father ice chips in a hostipal room

>  for weeks on end.

> 7. His wife was never raped.

> 8. He never gave birth to a child.

> 9. He never had a still birth.

> 10.He never had a prostate exam (at least not that we know of)

> 11. He was never a Red Sox fan.

> > 

> > I am of course open to other options for the top ten list, not

having

> > lived anywhere near a full life yet. Grandpa@aol perhaps you have

some

> > suggestions?

>  

> Dave G.

> Here's a few you can add to the list.

> 1. Jesus never had to experience Auschwitz or any of the other

multitude

> of extermination camps.

> 2. Jesus never died slowly from diseases like AIDS, cancer, ebola,

> plague, etc, etc.

> 3. Jesus wasn't raped while in prison.

> 4. Jesus' family didn't die before his eyes.

> 5. Jesus never burned to death.

>  I'm sure I'll come up with a few more later.

> 


BRYCE
     I'm not sure what's being argued here.  Tim writes that because
none of the eleven things he mentioned ever happened to Jesus, "Jesus
didn't experience what is was like to be human."  As someone who has
never had any of these things happen to him (I've never even been a
Red Sox fan) I hope his statement is incorrect.  However, if
Christians claim that Christ experienced the full range of human
suffering, Tim and Dave have an arguable point.

     OTOH, the LDS believe that Jesus DID experience the pain and
suffering of every person on earth while in the Garden of Gethsemane
(this is where the atonement was REALLY supposed to have happened). 
What purpose this suffering served in LDS theology is still unclear to
me.  So it isn't a fruitful line of argumentation to use against them.

==
Bryce Anderson
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