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1 | Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? | John 1:14 | Tamara Brewington | 205327 | ||
Dear Forum Members, Here is a question for your consideration; Did Jesus diminish His powers as God in order to become fully human, His omnipresence, omnipotence, or omniscience, and therefore, was it the Holy Spirit who was working through His humanity? Or did Jesus merely decide to put His full use of powers aside, in order to become fully human, retaining all His full powers of God and in addition to that receive an anointing of the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill righteousness? See these passages before attempting an answer please - Mathew 3:15, John 1:14, Colossians 1:17, Mathew 24:36, Luke 8:45. Please endeavor to divide scripture to arrive at your answer, as specualtion is fruitless, I say this in love and respect for others and ask the same in return. By His Infinite Grace, Tamara |
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2 | Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? | John 1:14 | DocTrinsograce | 205331 | ||
Hi, Tamara... The discuss the kenosis theory in posts #173774 and #181458. The Chalcedonian Confession clarifies this doctrine for us very well. The profundity of truth is such that many things remain mysterious (see post #157634), but the Scripture provides us with perspicuous statements of doctrine, to which we must tenaciously hold. In Him, Doc |
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3 | Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? | John 1:14 | Tamara Brewington | 205335 | ||
Thanks Doc, I had got an answer that dove tails with this one today in school from my pastor... I wanted a second opinion from in here, glad you caught this one and gave me excellent posts, now I know what that faulty theory is called. Another very nice professor was teaching about the hyostatic nature of Christ and was saying that Jesus diminished His powers of being God to take on humanity and took on the Holy Spirit to do the works of God as the Christ. My pastor taught me today before class about the Doctrine of the Impecability of Christ and said that what I had been taught was incorrect because it is in direct contradiciton to this very important doctrine which would disallow for the posibility that Jesus as fully human could ever have the ability to choose to sin, while choosing not to, but indeed had the inability to sin, even though tempted to sin, and having the inability to sin, did not sin. The ability to choose to sin implies that there is a possibility that Jesus as fully God and fully human could have stopped being God, or could have diminished characteristicis of being God, and been able to actually sin as a choice. But Jesus as God was always incapable of sinning as He is God, even though he put on the flesh. Jesus may choose not to use His powers in full capacity, but He may never have the possbility of committing sin, or He is not God. This is what I was looking for Doc, the content of all three posts, fits the context of my questions on this subject. Thank you very much, good to hear from you after so long, Much Christian love to you my brother in Christ, Tam Tam |
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