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Originally Posted by zeek
Your example didn't resolve the contradiction of a being at once fully human and fully divine. I admitted that the Incarnation is a mystery that I don't understand. I'm not confining Jesus. I'm calling the apparent contradiction what it is. If you can explain how it isn't a contradiction, please do. It's easier to attack me, so that's what you have done.
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"Fully human and fully divine" is a vague concept. I expect someone to rise up an fight that statement. But do we really know what is "divine" other than to say "Godly," "God-like," etc. The fact is that God was born into a human. He dealt with the issues that being that body entailed.
Is there really anyplace that declares there to be any contradiction? Or have we forced our additions onto what the actual account means? We like to think that the man was almost like a body overtaken by an alien in one of those body snatcher movies. Like a bug wearing an Edgar suite. Without looking it up, there is at least one place where it is said that the desires and foibles of the human body were known to Jesus. But he rose above them (my words, not the bible's). How did that work? I don't know. But unless we reject the whole idea of a creator (however it was accomplished), the idea that God can do it how He pleases, even in a manner that seems to contradict our limited understanding, is not a problem. Just like many things we consider contradictory, it is often a lack of facts that make the contradiction seem real. With all the facts, the contradiction ceases to exist.
You seem to need all the facts now. We don't have them. As Paul said, we see dimly as through a poor mirror. We think we know what we see. But we can't figure it all out. There is a need for faith. There is plenty of knowledge, but still a need for faith.