Todays 'Thinking Biblically' class is touching on the divinity of Jesus. What are your thoughts? Some topics such as these always raise issues that go back to what we were long ago taught and have often believed since we were children.
The Salvation Army believes that God is 'truly and properly man AND truly and properly God.' But what does this mean and how does this work? On one extreme end of belief are those who emphasize more the humanness of Jesus, he ate, slept, went to the loo and was just divinely chosen by God to do all these wonderful miracles. On the other extreme is those who believe Jesus was fully divine and would have known at birth his divine destiny. Our doctrine says he is both.
An interesting statement made in the class was 'we as Christians tend to lean more towards believing in the truly divine Jesus' - it just makes sense of all the things that he did, all the miracles and amazing wonders - because he was/is God. Its a tidy argument. But to really grasp that he did all this just as a regular Joe Bloggs?
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