I was just wanting to better understand
what you were wanting me to agree with in your statement: we agree if you view the Human part to also
have divine thoughts. Having read your response I am comfortable
that we can agree. The word "preoccupied" has a ring to it with which I am
not completely satisfied, but I believe the man Jesus was preoccupied with
doing the will of his heavenly Father; hence his thought-life was fully
intuned to the divine.
If you had responded by saying that the man Jesus did not
have a human mind, or a human spirit, or a human soul, then I would have had
to disagree; for then he would not have been like
us in every way (cf. Heb 2.17).
Like us is "similitude" Bill - it does not
mean exactly the "same as" Every human being born by procreation into
this fallen world
is also fallen. There is none
righteous and none that does good .... EXCEPT
ONE.
And, while I understood what you were saying, I also
hesitate to speak of the person of Christ in terms of "parts": if he is
fully human and fully divine, then he is not partly one and partly the
other. Anyway, I knew what you meant and could thus look through
it.
Thanks,
Bill
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So that I know for sure what you mean to
convey, let me ask you: do you as a human have "divine
thoughts"?
Bill
cd: Yes to a limited degree-but I cannot hold the
perspective that Christ is limited in His divine thinking.I realize that
the flesh would influence one thinking to my limited 'divine 'thoughts
but with Christ who walked according to the Spirit I see no limitations.
Nor do I admit there has to be such weakness in us as we also
have the Spirit-We simply are not willing to pray and fast and abstain
from things as one should to weaken this flesh and hence allow more
diviness to control us.
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cd: Yes we agree if you view the Human part to also have
divine thoughts.
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If I understand you correctly, Dean,
you believe that Christ while walking this earth was fully
God. I DO TOO. And if I understand you correctly, you also believe
that Christ while on this earth was fully human. I DO
TOO.
Bill