Q3. Jesus the Human Being

[DrD]

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Jesus was a real human being - He was in the likenes of human flesh yet without the sinful nature of humanity. . .

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These verses teach that Jesus in obedience to the will of the Father voluntarily came to earth in the likeness of human flesh for the specific task of redeeming sinful humanity - mankind as a whole - back to the Father. . .

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The fact that Jesus was human makes all the difference because it was necessary for a human being to atone for the sins of humanity - to redeem humanity and bring back into a right relationship with the Father. . .1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (NASB)

21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

[Marloes]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

These verses teach us that Jesus was both divine and human.

He was God who came in the flesh.

Hebrews 2:17-18 tell us that He had to become a man to be our high-priest and to be able to suffer with us.

Besides this, this is the major difference between us and moslims.

1 John 2:22-25 tell us that everybody who denies the divine or the human aspect is an antichrist or liar.

[Trusting God]

Jesus was fully God and fully man. He became a human being, according to Philippians 2:7-8, when he took on a human appearance or the likeness of man, and by birth.

These verses teach that Jesus became a slave or servant and a human being when He emptied or humbled Himself to become man.

In Luke 2:40-52, the Bible tells us that Jesus

[Delivered]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one, and what do these verses teach us?

Yes, Jesus emptied himself of His Glory, being the Glory of God, and became man, not man born of the flesh, but man born of the Spirit, the exact image of God, incarnate by the Holy Spirit, the Second Adam, He made himself nothing as He took on that of a servant to His God and Father, the God who sits upon the throne, these verses are teaching us the importance of doing the will of the Father, teaching us the importance of unity between Jew and Gentile believers, with its base being that of humility and selfless love.

What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

It was very important indeed, for the world needed a Second Adam, the first Adam was created in God's image, chose not to do the will of God, the call upon his heart was not that of selfless love and humility, and as we see down through the ages, there was no human found to be worthy enough to break the seals that are holding back God's judgment on the nations, but God had a plan, God's Son chose to empty Himself, and leave his place of glory to be made a little lower than the angels, so that God will one day say, "Don't cry John, "Worthy is the Lamb" ----- the Lamb whom God has exalted to the highest place, at God's right hand, giving him a name above all names, that is God's name - LORD, Adonai, it was all accomplished because He came as a servant, a human who concurred death, and one day every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, for Jesus is God's Glory.

[wifee]

3a)I believe He chose to became a human in 1 birth 2 appearance,not pretending. He was one..1John 4:2-3a Word became flesh John 1:14.

b)verses teach that God humbled himself by becoming human in Jesus &submitted himself to terrible death to save us from ourselves &restore our relationship with God the Father. In human form,he was both fully God and fully human.

c)To be a sacrifice for our sins It was vital that he was human, for the truth &our acceptance of his birth death & resurrection.God is constant, not fake, nothing negative If not human he could not have experience pain,hunger,bereavement, anger, temptation and for us to see the significance of His actions.

[wifee]

3a)I believe He chose to became a human in 1 birth 2 appearance,not pretending. He was one..1John 4:2-3a Word became flesh John 1:14.

b)verses teach that God humbled himself by becoming human in Jesus &submitted himself to terrible death to save us from ourselves &restore our relationship with God the Father. In human form,he was both fully God and fully human.

c)To be a sacrifice for our sins It was vital that he was human, for the truth &our acceptance of his birth death & resurrection.God is constant, not fake, nothing negative If not human he could not have experience pain,hunger,bereavement, anger, temptation and for us to see the significance of His actions.

[jacquie7]

I believe Jesus was human. These verses tell us that Jesus took the form of a mere man; giving up his privileges as God. He took the form of a servant on His own accord to fulfill the will of the FATHER (He had the nature of God and the nature of a servant so He could identify with humanity) never giving up the essence of being God. I think the difference is that in order for Him to feel and understand what humanity goes through, He had to become a man so He could relate to the nature of being human. Like the High Priest identified with the people because He was one of them, Jesus can identify with humanity because He became human.

[Sank T Monius]

Philippians 2:7-8
Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one?
Jesus was really a human. It is written in John 1:14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us..."
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What do these verses teach?
Philippians 2:7-8 teach us that Jesus (God) humbled himself and became as a man in order to free us from the penalty and power of sin.
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What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?
He had to be human to fulfill the prophesies of His coming.

[WinstonY]

Jesus was a real human being - to believe otherwise or to claim otherwise is to disagree with the Nicene Creed and be liable to be named a heretic and possibly be excommunicated by the church.  Jesus is truly God and truly human.  Jesus and God are, according to the Council of Nices, homoosiouis of the same substance.  They used this word because they wanted to be ultimately clear that Jesus was God.  But Jesus was also man.  Karl Barth wrote “A name stands forth, a man stands before us in God’s place.  Here the almighty appears not almighty at all.” (Dogmatics in Outline, 1966, 68) This Jesus as a representative of people stands before us in God’s presence and represents us and justifies us before God.  This man Jesus, fully human, suffered for us all, died and was resurrected.  “This is a historical event” writes Barth.  An event that marks a breaking in upon history dividing history between BC and AD  - the before and after.  The period when God descended to earth in the form of a person, a real person who was born , lived and died on earth - a real person.

 

 

These verses teach that Jesus was both human and divine!

 

If Jesus had not been truly human than he could not have taken on the burden of the world and died for mankind.

[Aleezah]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being, or was he only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

1. He was very real.  He came through His mother’s womb.  2.  He refers to the state of our Savior before he took human form. His form was divine. “He had a glory with the father before the world was.” See John 1:1; 2 Cor 4:4; Heb 1:3, etc.  [Johnson's Notes on the New Testament.] 3.  It would make a difference,  if he was not human it would make it difficult to relate to Jesus. 

 

[Old Jerry]

Jesus was really a human being. He was also God. This verse is teaching us that Jesus humbled himself and became a slave for us. That means that he was a man and he waited on mankind.

If Jesus wasn’t a human then he wouldn’t have been able to understand the things that we go through. We wouldn’t have somebody that could sympathize with us. But since he was a man he understands the thing that are happening to us.

[Old Jerry]

Jesus was really a human being. He was also God. This verse is teaching us that Jesus humbled himself and became a slave for us. That means that he was a man and he waited on mankind.

If Jesus wasn’t a human then he wouldn’t have been able to understand the things that we go through. We wouldn’t have somebody that could sympathize with us. But since he was a man he understands the thing that are happening to us.

[DebLam3teach]

Jesus, during His time on earth, was all God (John 1:1) and all Man (John 1:14 and 1 John 4:12).

 

Philippianas 2:6-8 teaches Jesus was in the form (or nature) of God, but humbled Himself when becoming a Man to die for us on the cross.

 

Jesus proved to be the perfect sacrifce to redeem us from sin.  Even though He was tempted as we are, He did not sin (Hebrews 4:15). He could have easily sinned when He was tempted by the devil in the wilderness (Matthew 4) but He did not. He died in the flesh and rose in the flesh to proclaim His victory over sin and death.  He gives this inheritance to believers as He raises us up from spiritual death, and makes us alive together with Him (Ephesians 2:5-6). We only have a foretaste of this inheritance now....but the best is yet to come when we leave this eath to be with Him!

[charisbarak]

Jesus was fully human.

But He was fully God as well. No sin found in Him.

A world of difference--Only a sinless human being could take our punishment on the cross.

[Commissioned]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

Jesus was really a human being not pretending to be one.  He emptied Himself, divested himself of his prestige or any privilege of being divine.

 

In these verses we see that the Jesus who walked among man, lived as a man and lived sinless; an example to us that though temptations will come we need not yield to them.

 

The fact that Jesus was indeed human and not divine give us confidence in that fact that God’s love for the world is shown in His embrace of us as human created in His likeness. 

[blezed]

(2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?     

I believe that Jesus  was really human.  These verses teaches us that Jesus voluntarily assumed a human body and nature, without ceasing to be God, in order to fulfill God's plan of salvation for us. It makes a difference that Jesus was human because he was able to identify himself with man's sins.    The fact that he was able to identify with our struggles made him more believable and a perfect example of how to handle those struggles.    

[forgivenforgivenforgiven]

Shalom to the Saints by FAITH in Messiah.

Greetings;

1. Yahshua was truly human. As Scripture states. "He was tempted as we." He had emotions, feelings, compassion, love, grief, sorrow, born into the world as we are. Followed and learned under the instructions of His parents. He was born from a.human mother, was nourished in the womb 9 months by His mother, circumcised, baptized by another. He stood before the Pharisees lawyers of His day and taught. He touched people, they couldn't feel Him if He was not human.

2. That spiritually He was one with the Father in essence. He only did what the Father told Him what to do. He was obedient to His Father even unto death. He humbled Himself unto death as well.

3. It makes a big difference as Scripture has said, He has felt all we have felt as a human, tempted as we, He was not exempt of any human experiences except he was spotless no sin was found in Him, because He chose to walk in the Spirit rather than in the flesh. When you want to put an end to sin in your life u walk opposite to the flesh. It is easy to be a" god," because then by your power eliminate suffering.

But being human for us He really experienced the suffering of the flesh on the stake. He bled received wounds, was scoraged flesh riped off Him. He felt the separation from Yah because of the sin He carried for us. Where sin is Yah is not.

People said, "If you are God, then come down from the stake," if He was God it would have been so easy if He was spiritual. But that would have defeated His suffering for our sins in being saved. In the garden He wept tears of blood, if he was spirit He would not have bled.

Have a blessed day in Yah.

FAITH

[JanMary]

Q3 (Phil 2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one?

 

​Jesus was really a human being. I've read that babies receive their blood from the father. Jesus was in every way a human being, but with the blood of HIS Father in Heaven, which was sinless and holy, since He was conceived by the Holy Spirit rather than an earthly father. He was fully God and fully man...sinless and perfect in every way, but with the limitations of humanity. His body experienced fatigue, pain, hunger, thirst....He experienced everything that we experience, yet without sin.

 

​What do these verses teach?

 

​The verses say that He stripped Himself of all privileges and rightful dignity so as to assume the guise of a servant/slave, in that He became like men and was born a human being. He was a helpless infant totally dependent upon the care of His earthly parents, crawled before toddling then walking, lost baby teeth, learned to read and write as we do, and so on. He was the second Adam...yet without the sinful fallen human nature like the first Adam after the fall.

 

What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

 

As our Savior, He was the perfect sacrifice...the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. To be that sacrifice He must be human and pour out real human ​blood to make right all that Adam's fall destroyed. The blood of Lambs, oxen or goats  were only a temporary "fix" until the perfect God/man Lamb gave His life for us once and for all.​ Being human, He demonstrated that we too are to depend upon God our Father every day, and empowered by the Holy Spirit as born again believers we are able to overcome this world. It comforts me when I'm hurting or exhausted or grieving, to know that He understands everything I'm confronted with, including sin, and gives me a way of escape, by calling on His power and strength to resist. (This helps me to remember that unbelievers have no such help....they have no power to overcome sin, and therefore cannot live with victory. It motivates me to want to share the good news with them!)

[haar]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

 

Jesus was not pretending to be man. He was God, gave up His privileges and position as God to be born as man a woman in the form of man but all processes through the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

It really matter that Jesus had to be man because only as man He die on the cross for our sin.

 

 

[haar]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really make whether or not Jesus was human?

 

Jesus was not pretending to be man. He was God, gave up His privileges and position as God to be born as man (by a woman) in the form of man but all processes through the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

It really matter that Jesus had to be man because only as man He could die on the cross for our sin.

[solomon befikadu]

Jesus was a human being.

Jesus came from heaven from God to save us from our sins, by being like us, to carry our sins and make us clean from uor sins, to teach us how we can be saved and how we can leave with out sin by being as servant.

Since sins were cleansed by the blood, previously it was by the lamb which cleaned the sins, and that could not clean sins completely. Due to this reason Jesus has to come as a man and sacrify himself, through His blood our sins are cleaned once and for all. That is why Jesus has to come as human. Who ever believes in Christ Jesus by His blood all sins are forgiven.

[Rose22]

Jesus was Authentic! He was real! He was God made flesh..for us and for our salvation!

He became man for us in order to take away the sins of the whole world! He did this by becoming our sin...he embodied it in order to take it from us!

These verses teach us many things, but most of all about LOVE...The Love Jesus had for His Father by completing His divine and perfect will in unutterable sufferings...and the LOVE Jesus had for His enemies as well as for the whole world...This leaves a most beautiful legacy that teaches us how We are to live our lives from then on!

By Jesus becoming human We are able to identify the sufferings of Jesus's with our own. which were all experienced by Christ..this in return offers us much comfort in our darkest times..it confirms and strengthens us in His Truth. We see how He changed The World! So it matters greatly that Jesus was made Human in many ways...because by His very identity we are able to relate, connect, aspire, love and honour......It puts our own selfish desires into perspective..it learn how to endure and overcome sufferings and sorrow..how we are never separate but rather a unified oneness..

[ducminh]

Why do we have such kind of questions?  The more man questions about the divinity and the human form of Christ Jesus the further he is led far away from faith.  Jesus Christ had never tried to convince anyone to agree with Him during His three years in mission on earth.  He often said:

Mat 11:15  He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 

God has told us about the incarnation of Christ through His prophets and His Apostles, so whoever is called to the faith let him/her reads the word of God and believes in what was written.  Does it help anyone to have true faith by questioning the divinity and the human form of the Messiah?  Certainly not for me!  I come to Christ Jesus because I believe in the Word of God that was written by the prophets and the Apostles.  The Bible is sufficient for me to grow in faith.

 

God’s teaching is authoritative.  The Word of God does not need any doctrines of the churches that have been developed by theologians.  Christ has His doctrine for His Church already written in the Bible, so let no man adds, or removes, or questions or gives fancy explanations about His Word.

 

Paul has said:

Gal 1:8  But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

 

2Co 11:4  For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

 

Anything that is not in line with the Word of God is of Satan.  Unfortunately, today we have many new versions of the Bible that have been produced to lead astray the multitude of Christians.

 

Jesus has declared:

Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Mat 5:19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

 

And John also has given his warning:

Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

[Debra Grant]

Q3. (2:7-8) Was Jesus really a human being or only pretending to

be one? What do these verses teach? What difference does it really

make whether or not Jesus was human?

 

1. He was really human. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and

the Word was God…. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, 

full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, 

glory as of the only Son from the Father." (John 1:1, 14, RSV

 

"This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that

acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 

but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God" 

(1 John 4:2-3a).

 

"But made himself nothing,taking the very nature of a servant,being 

made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man." (2:7-8a)

 

1. Jesus in his earthly career was similar to sinful humans and yet not 

totally like them."29 "Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from 

heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and 

was made man; and was crucified also for us.The difference is that he is 

holy and can do what man cannot do.Man came in sin and he came in 

holiness of spirit.

[van]

Jesus was fully human and didn't pretend to be human. Jesus was divine and also human. The first difference is if Jesus wasn't born a human he would not be able to relate with us. The second difference is if Jesus wasn't human then is death would have been in vain and we wouldn't have a chance to go to heaven.