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Re: Jesus forsaken?
Here is what Bro. Bernard states about Jesus' human nature...
Jesus Had a Complete, But Sinless, Human Nature
The truth lies somewhere in between these historical views expressed by various theologians. That Jesus had a complete human nature and the complete divine nature at the same time is the teaching of Scripture, but we cannot separate these two natures in His earthly life.
It is apparent that Jesus was human in will, mind, spirit, soul, and body, but it is equally apparent that He had the fullness of the Godhead resident in His flesh. From our finite view, humanity and deity were inseparably joined in His one Spirit.
The divine Spirit could be separated from the human body by death, but His humanity was more than a human body—the shell of a human—with God
inside. He was human in body, soul, and spirit with the fullness of the Spirit of God dwelling in that body, soul, and spirit.
Jesus differed from an ordinary human (who can be filled with the Spirit of God) in that He had all of God’s nature within Him. He possessed the unlimited power, authority, and character of God. Furthermore, in contrast to a born-again, Spirit-filled human, the Spirit of God was inextricably and inseparably joined with the humanity of Jesus. Without the Spirit of God there would have been only a lifeless human that would not have been Jesus Christ.
Only in these terms can we describe and distinguish the two natures in Jesus; we know that He could act and speak from either role, but we also know that the two natures were not actually separated in Him. With our finite minds, we can make only a distinction and not a separation in the two natures that blended perfectly in Him.
D.K. Bernard, Oneness of God, p. 92
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