...but a completely normal human whose father was actually, genetically God, yes? I mean. Mary is canonically a virgin.
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Well yes God created Jesus' body from whole cloth by magic but made him a completely ordinary human, it's a test of faith
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Like God burying fossils or whatever
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As people have pointed out despite the Renaissance Greek god paintings of Jesus in the Gospels ppl repeatedly remark on how ordinary he is
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"A prophet in his own country is without honor" is about how Jesus' childhood neighbors refused to take him seriously
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The official doctrine I had drilled into my head was that Jesus was "fully divine and fully human", however you resolve that paradox
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Even his miraculous powers are supposed to be things any human could do if they had perfect faith in God
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But seriously, was the official doctrine you were taught that being Christlike was... kind of like the speed of light?
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Like Christ could actually travel at e,a good Christian can approach and come infentesimally closeto Christlikeness but won't ever reach it?
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The way I would put it is no fallen human can achieve Christlikeness through effort on earth but by grace it's given to us in heaven
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But yes the idea is Christlikeness is an impossible standard for humans to meet but Christ died for our sins so we don't have to
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