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Concerning the Humanity of the Lord Jesus after His resurrection?

I have heard it said by some that after our Lord's resurrection and later ascension, that He put off His humanity and went back to just being Divine. That today there is no humanity in the Lord. So my question is this. How is it that the Lord is still referred to as a Man and the Son of Man in the bible?

Acts 7:56

And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God and one Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Bonus thoughts.

Had the Lord truly stripped off His humanity upon His ascension, how would He be able to minister Himself to us, in all the riches of His human life and living as a genuine God-Man on the earth. How would He be the One who can sympathize with our case and be touched by the feelings of our weaknesses if He did not have His uplifted humanity?

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.

Today our Lord is carrying out His heavenly Priestly ministry, we know this... How important is His humanity in carrying out this ministry to us?

I know it is a loaded question. But thank you for any thoughts on this matter.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Jesus is the same today, yesterday and will be tomorrow. He is fully God, not half a God not just a little "a god" buy fully God and fully Human, not half God, half human. But fully God and fully Human. When he was Born of the Virgin Mary he had no earthly father, his Father was in Heaven. This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit, you noticed it was not a angel but pregnant through the Holy Spirit. otherwise God.

    The Angel Gabriel stated to Mary "You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus" Mary asked him "“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

    The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

    So God is the Father of this child and Mary is the mother. So the Son being both in nature God and Human.

    So when this Jesus died on the cross and reserrected back to life, the way his body was is told in Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” So at this point what would Jesus be if not a flesh and bones Man, yet fully God. Do you think that he just manifested a body to fool everybody when he was really a spirit creature but fool those disciples into believeing that it was really him? Now that would be ignorant of the scriptures, would it not?

    Look in th ebook of Acts the very first chapter it tells us that he was with his apostles while he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. He was still in his flesh and bone body. Yet while looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” He went to heaven in this flesh and bone body so he is in heaven this way and will come back this same way. I mean look this is what the Bible says, I can't change that, nor would I if I could. I go by what the Bible says and not from what someone else says it means. Like some do.

    So how important is His humanity to us? He walked the walk and talked the talk. He was one of us, he felt as we do, he hurst as we do and had feelings as we do. He was tempted by the temptor, he was tempted far more then we could have stood but he did and for 40 days without food. As a human he knows us very well and as God he can read our minds and heart, so he knows us better then we know ourselves. . So when he says, you are saved or all you have to do is have faith and believe in him then you are saved. Well, I do believe you can believe it with all your heart and mind. I know I do and I also know there is nothing I can do or say that can thank him enough for this grace he gives us, nor can I love anyone else as much.

  • 7 years ago

    There is a level of humanity still in Christ. Jesus in heaven still carries the wounds from the cross, and will be recognized by future generations by those wounds... Zechariah 12:10 and 14:6

    As Mary's first born, Jesus is Son of Man. As being fathered by God, Jesus is the Son of God. His dual nature is recorded throughout the New Testament. As the Son of Man and the Son of God, He left His Spirit with us to dwell in our hearts. This is so we can relate to Him, and He can relate to us continually.

    http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?C...

  • Christ Jesus Was caused to be conceived in the womb of Mary...on Earth.. by God....... Jesus Was born in the way of men.... Fully mortal flesh....... but also Fully indwelt by His Father God

    Jesus was subject to ALL of the same trials, tribulation, and temptations as any other mortal man.... however, he is the only one to have never succumbed to them....

    To ascend to Heaven Jesus had to be given a new body... as will all those of The True Church before we enter Heaven..... at that point Jesus became a Heavenly being.... as will ALL who enter Heaven.... no longer mortal man..... no longer "human" but Heavenly being

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:50

    The Four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are narratives of the Life of Jesus while he was on earth.. These are eye witness accounts and give the words spoken by Jesus. It was Jesus who said many times 'the son of man' Whenever he said he was the son of God, the Jews wanted to stone him because they thought he was blaspheming.

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  • 7 years ago

    In his resurrected form he has no blood. He can no longer be

    human if he has no blood. Referring to him now as the Son of

    Man is the same as calling him The Lion of Judah. They are

    titles of who he was on earth and who he will be known as

    during his millennial reign. He is known by many titles.

    In 1Cor 15:42-54 addresses how our bodies will go through

    the same process after we go to be with him.

  • 7 years ago

    On over 30 occasions, Jesus referred to himself as the Son of The Man, or the son of God.

    When Jesus showed himself to his disciples, he was tangible and solid and human (divine) in shape and form.

    "Handle me and see," he said, "for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have."

    If Jesus ever stops being physically alive, then death won, and there is no resurrection for us. He either conquered death or he didn't. There is no middle ground.

  • 7 years ago

    Jesus became fully God again after His resurrection. This did not affect His memory or compassion.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Jesus is a man. Not THE God, not an angel or other entity.

    Naturally he has a body.

    Source(s): Acts 2:22
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    His ressurected body (as ours will be) is somewhat different than the first

    but He is still rocking a body, but doesn't need it to be God

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    There is absolutely nothing to suggest these things really happened

    Todsy me and a couple friends wrote about a soldier in Vietnam who got shot in the face,we buried him.and he resurrected three days later.we didnt feel the need to write these things when.it happened because it didn't really hapoenNobody else beside us wrote about him either.Will you believe this story in 2000 years?

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