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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
That woke me up to God's problem. He has everything except poverty ... frailty. He cannot buy it. We have frailty, failure even, in truckloads. So we have something God lacks. This makes us attractive to him. By coming as a man, through our fallen lineage, he put on frailty. He did not try to cheaply buy it; he went to India, so to speak, to die, not to return home after a brief, selfie-snapping, self-worth validating mission trip.
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Like I said, I like spirit of this post. It's probing and seeking.
But we should examine the idea that if God doesn't have something it means he lacks it in the sense of needing it. God lacks sin, but doesn't need it. So the question becomes, if he "lacks" something, why would he need it? Which brings us to frailty. Frailty in and of itself is not something positive. Frailty is only "good" when it pushes us to rely on a stronger source, ultimately which is God ("When I'm weak, I'm strong.")
So then why would God need to experience frailty? The only reason solely for himself would be to experience his need for God. But he is God. I don't think he would do it just for the novelty of the experience. The other reason to experience it would be for our sake. So that he by being like us can better meet our needs. And in fact, this is exactly what the Bible says (Heb 4:15).
As Jesus God experienced all the frailty he "needed" to. Ultimately it was for us he did it though, not just so he could have the experience of something he couldn't have otherwise. Though it must be said that in order to completely meet our needs he did have to experience something he couldn't have experienced otherwise.