Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: vm0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent Paul Mulhern) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jesus as a human Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 08:07:02 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I think I've been splitting hairs, more than disagreeing with anything. I guess I see the resurrection (of Jesus and us as well) as being a fundamental change in a "being's" nature. And the differences between myself and Jesus are, well, hard to miss. But I'm not considering that we're not headed for the same glorification. I guess I was including "tendency to be fallible" in my definition of human, but that's not quite right to do. Statistically, you can't dispute it, but Jesus didn't blow it, and Adam wasn't designed to. (God saw that all He'd made was good...) I guess I just stagger at His awesome-ness. Originally, when considering forgiveness for sins, (no pun intended) I was contrasting Jesus's ability to forgive with ours...the difference exists in practice, but not theory. Jesus wouldn't have told us to love one another as He loves us unless we had the capacity to. I've just never known anyone to live up to their capacity (myself included emphatically). There sure is an observable difference between earthly and glorified people! -Vince Mulhern clh: there hasn't been much talk about this, except for between you & me. If you don't think it needs to be posted, that's fine. I wanted to let you know I'm not weird...but I've maybe been imprecise. ("Do what I mean, not what I say")