Fully Human

Jesus is an amazing figure in history.  He lived at a level of life which seems so much higher than ours that we give Him super human status.  Such does not surprise anyone since He is Son of God and one who spoke of Himself by saying, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father."  (John `14:9). God Incarnate is how we know Him.   John 1:14 says, "And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen His glory as of a father's only son..."  The child born of the virgin Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit, assumed flesh, and lived among us.  God became flesh.  In and through Christ Jesus, God has walked among us.   

If we can step outside the constraining theological boxes in which we are so comfortable and think of Jesus being fully human and fully divine without allowing the fully human part to be something which demands we to think of ourselves as being conceived and created as less than fully human, then we have opened the door to considering that following Christ means reclaiming our original human condition instead of denying it by buying into the idea that we are born as sinners.  If we lay aside for a moment the fact that Jesus was fully divine and, therefore, not allow that dimension of who He is to be the reason He could live fully human, then we have taken a huge step toward affirming that we were born with the imprint of the Holy and fully human.  

Saying we sin because we are fully human seems to imply that somehow Christ was without sin because He was not fully human as are we.  We become children of iniquity not because of our birth, but because of our choices.  We are most fully human when we allow the Holy Spirit to bring the fullness of the heart of Jesus into our life.  It is worth thinking about for a spell and it may be something which radically changes our understanding of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.