Did God Become A Man, or Create A Man

 This is an interesting question :

Did God become a man called Jesus of Nazareth
Or.. Did God create a man called Jesus of Nazareth?

Right up front, this question is not blasphemy.
And whatever answer I come up with won't be blasphemy either.

Psalm 8:1
"O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens."

Point 1 : There is only one LORD. That means one God. That means one "throne". That means the Psalm is talking about Elohim .. Jehovah .. Jesus Christ .. 

Psalm 8:4
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
Good question.

What is man? What is a homo sapien mammal? Or as evolutionist scientists like to call as "modern humans".  Cool.
You'll get a kick out of this : "They are great apes characterized by their hairlessness, bipedalism, and high intelligence.
Humans have large brains, enabling more advanced cognitive skills that enable them to thrive and adapt in varied environments, develop highly complex tools, and form complex social structures and civilizations.
Humans are highly social, with individual humans tending to belong to a multi-layered network of distinct social groups – from families and peer groups to corporations and political states. As such, social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, languages, and traditions (collectively termed institutions), each of which bolsters human society.
Humans are also highly curious: the desire to understand and influence phenomena has motivated humanity's development of science, technology, philosophy, mythology, religion, and other frameworks of knowledge; humans also study themselves through such domains as anthropology, social science, history, psychology, and medicine.
As of April 2024, there are estimated to be more than 8 billion humans alive." wiki

"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." Genesis 11:1
"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." Genesis 11:6

Moses wrote the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Testament. So Moses wrote Genesis 11. I believe this so blame Moses if you disagree. 

 So, Make no mistake, Listen, So .. smile .. The Bible say that humans will be able to do anything they can imagine doing. Wow.
This event in Genesis 11 may have happened between 2850 BC and 2091 BC.
This is the year 2025.
So add those together and there is about a 4900 year span.
We just defeated this by the way with AI. Languages are now no longer a problem.
Therefore, nothing we imagine will be restrained from us .. unless .. God intervenes again.

Back to humans.
Even GoogleAI agrees that we have five senses : "sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch".
So do other mammals. meow. bark. heehaw.

How many inner senses do humans have?
This gets more complicated. But for ease of understanding : Memory, Affection, Reasoning, Imagination, Consciousness. This can be widely expanded, but overall this will cover it.
Animals do too. Mammals do too. It comes in specific packages as God has ordained when creating each different species of animals. 

What makes a human different than other mammals or animals in general?
They say we have big brains, walk on two legs, fancy languages, self-awareness and introspection (we think about ourselves a lot).
Scientific American magazine says, "But our ability to think, learn, communicate and control our environment makes humanity genuinely different from all other animals." oink.

That is a huge leap from great apes. 

There is proof all over the place that humans go somewhere after we 'die'. That is why most civilizations have some religious system that includes the 'afterlife'.  Since other mammals don't write things down, we just have to rely on not knowing about animals. (I think my pets will be there somehow. :) )

So dying, going somewhere, might be a unique feature. But is that it?

God, Elohim of Genesis 1:1, speaks of this 'next life' often. He also states that a person can go and keep living, or go and .. not keep living. 

There are many people, more than we realize, that simply believe we live and die and that is the end of it all.  That explains a lot of things we call crime. 

But once upon a mountain, God gave Moses 10 Laws, or commandments, that triggered a dilemma with humans. It strongly implied to love the one God and to do good to each other.. or later you'll find out you really blew it. Adios. 

Then later God said according to the Prophet Joel, that God would be getting inside humans. Hmm..
I don't see where God ever said that God would get inside other mammals or animals.
So, that is very unique.

In the Hebrew Testament God would give men words to speak, ie. Prophets.
God could make a donkey talk to Balaam. Numbers 22:28
But God never went in a man.

John the Baptist. The Bible says he was ""filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb" (Luke 1:15)
I'm not sure if that is the same as what happened on the day of Pentecost. I think it was different. Like an inspiration more than God actually in him.  Later in prison John the Baptist even questioned if Jesus was the Lamb of God or not. 
Interesting.

Back to humans. So the Prophet Joel said God would pour out on people and the day of Pentecost God came and entered them like "licks of fire".

Fire. Well, in the Hebrew Testament God appeared inside a pillar of fire. God also appeared in a cloud. God appeared in a fire in the burning bush to Moses.  And since Melchesidek had no beginning and no ending, the one who came to Abraham, it appears that he might have been God in a temporary human form. Genesis 14.
Hebrews 7:1 "For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually."

So God does get inside something so that human mammals can see something to help us believe that the invisible God actually exists. 

The Bible calls Jesus the last Adam.
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." 1 Corinthians 15:45

So, how did God make the first man Adam?  God created him. 

So, how did God make the last Adam? God created him.

Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Luke 1:35 "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

One more time : "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." 1 Corinthians 15:45
Was that quickening spirit the one that came in the Upper Room that day at Pentecost? I'll ponder that.
And was that quickening spirit actually Father God back in Spirit form? Jesus did say the HE would come IN them at Pentecost. Something else to ponder..

So our question is :
Did God become a man called Jesus of Nazareth
Or.. Did God create a man called Jesus of Nazareth?

It looks more and more like God created a human being, and then the Eternal God got inside that human being and had his voice talk to us as Jesus of  Nazareth.

One more point to ponder : Calvary.
Mat 27:45 "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Mat 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Forsaken? Left? ByeBye? .. It appears that something left Jesus that left him in an agonizing panic.

If God left, then at some point God must have entered Jesus.

So for now I will stick to the thought that God created Jesus in the womb of Mary. Jesus was a human mammal. He was to be a human representing the Salvation of God (which is what Yeshua means).
Elohim entered inside Jesus. Elohim then spoke and directed Jesus on what to say and what to do. 

This makes Jesus just like those 120 at Pentecost. The only difference is : Jesus had all of Elohim in him. At Pentecost God entered in as extension of  'Himself'.  Similar to the master server connecting to lots of computers. The master server is the boss though. Humans will know the master server as Jesus Christ.

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14
The 'God of Salvation' was made flesh and dwelt among us.
I'll ponder this more...

 

This is what I believe.. comma,
T.H.Tatman
GodComma.com

 

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