Was jesus immortal? or mortal? how can the son of god be mortal?

Not only that, why didn't he just blast the romans with his super breath or laser beam eyes?

We don't think like Jesus does. I've wondered that myself. Pain may have had something to do with it. He did tell His disciples He was going to be crucified and rise again long before it happened. They didn't understand. He had to die to satisfy God's wrath so we could be forgiven. Without His death, we would have to pay the penalty for our sins, which is an eternity in hell. Because Jesus was infinite and eternal His death equaled an eternity's worth of God's wrath for every person. Thus, the debt was paid. Now we simply trust in Him as Lord and Savior and He pays the debt for us. Our sins are credited to Him on the cross and we are cleared.

I will presume that this is a serious question and you want to understand.

First you have to understand the real reason God came to us as Jesus; a man. He did not come to annoy the Romans; he came for much more important reasons.

Jesus was Divine but he was also man. He was both God and Man.

" The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who "loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins": "the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world", and "he was revealed to take away sins":

Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?

"The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me."74 On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: "Listen to him!"75 Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved you."76 This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example"

As a man lives and dies so did Jesus live and die. Jesus was resurrected as we will be resurrected.

There is no simple answer to God and his mysteries but if you have the time and are really interested you might go to the reference site.

Ya, I know, it uses church type lingo but if you forget that and really read to understand, you will understand.

if you were "god's" son, then why wouldn't just laugh at the Romans while you were on the cross saying.."HAHAHA I can die you idiot!!", and tell your followers not to worry, i am going to be alive in three days...

Actually this is sort of a twisted narration of what Jesus actually did. Have you read the Bible?

The "flesh" or the "body" was mortal, and had to be. A sinless sacrifice.

the Spirit that lived inside the body, obviously was immortal. God is a spirit, and a spirit cannot die.

God is "in Christ" reconciling the world unto Himself. Diety wrapped in humanity. :)

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Christ was the 2ND Adam. He was perfectly capable of stopping what happened but then he would have failed God just Adam and Eve did. He was the son of God with all it's power as he showed us, but he was here to be the son of man. He did not laugh even though he knew he would rise again because at the moment he was taking on the sins of mankind throughout all time, when he cried out " Father why have you forsaken me. " God at that moment turned his back on his son who had become sin for us. Christ spent 3 days in Hell paying the price for us because it was the only way we could become like him and be able to approach God.

Jesus plainly said that no one could kill him; he voluntarily made himself die (even Pilate was amazed at how fast Jesus died).

Jesus willed himself to death, as the Bible plainly said. Since he is God, he can do that.

Please educate yourself before you go and make a fool of yourself in public by ridiculing what you do not understand.

he is imortal but the human body was not. he alowed himself to be killed to pay the price of our sins read psam 22 or isaiah 53 both tell of his sufering and sacrifice. Jesus came willingly to pay for our sins not to say it was not painfull for him to die on the cross.

He was not a god, but was God. Jesus had to go to the cross to die, to be the propitiation for our sin.

Jesus was both mortal and immortal. One cannot apply logic to Christianity.

On Earth, He was human. His destiny was to die for our sins. In spirit, he is immortal.