“He was 100% God and 100% human.”<\/p>\n
How many times have you heard that statement about Jesus? Have you ever noticed that anytime anyone says that, they say it in the past tense. He was<\/strong> 100% God and 100% human. The implication is that He became so for a brief period in time, but He has returned to being just God once again.<\/p>\n But is it possible that the present tense is true as well: Jesus is <\/strong>100% God and 100% human?<\/p>\n A few years back, I came across a video where the guy speaking (can’t remember his name) claimed that Jesus was still 100% human. I had never considered that idea before, but it seems to make sense biblically to me, although it is crazy to consider. After all, the Bible says that Jesus is the first of humanity to receive a glorified body, and that the rest of us who follow Him will follow suit–we’ll also have glorified bodies like Jesus does. But even though our sinful nature will be changed and we will receive new bodies, I’m assuming that we’ll still be humans in our soul (at the core of what it means to be human)–just perfected\/glorified humans. If this is true, doesn’t it make sense that Jesus too remains human?<\/p>\n If so, I think the implications are pretty wild. After all, when we consider that Jesus was willing to become human and die on the cross for us, there is a nagging thought: “Yeah, but He didn’t stay dead, and He knew that He wouldn’t stay dead, and His Father knew it too. They knew all along that this was only a temporary separation and a temporary humbling of Jesus.”<\/p>\n But what if Jesus’ nature is forever<\/em> changed because He chose to come into this world? What if from now on and for all eternity, Jesus will continue as the Divine Human<\/strong>? Can you imagine how incredible it would be that the God and Creator of the universe would stoop so low as to carry on for the rest of all eternity as a human being?<\/p>\n Where in the Bible do we get the idea that Jesus stopped being a human? We strongly affirm that Jesus really rose from the dead in the physical sense–not in just some ethereal, spiritual sense. He rose again bodily. We know that after He rose from the dead, even though His body was a glorified body, He ate food with the disciples and His scars were still visible. What in the Bible makes us think that after He ascended into heaven, He dropped His glorified body and shook off His humanity? Might we think this just because we’re uncomfortable with the notion that God would love us so much as to take on our identity for all eternity? I admit, that’s an incredibly audacious thing for the living God to do. Does He remain a perfect mediator between God and man, because He remains both God and man?<\/p>\n What if it’s the truth? Does anyone out there know of any Scripture passages that would indicate that Jesus is no longer 100% human?<\/p>\n Am I the only one here who has always assumed that Jesus returned back to His former state–how He used to exist before coming human?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “He was 100% God and 100% human.” How many times have you heard that statement about Jesus? Have you ever noticed that anytime anyone says that, they say it in the past tense. He was 100% God and 100% human. The implication is that He became so for a brief period in time, but He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-my-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}