Jesus, the tent?

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In a message dated 10/15/98 3:18:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
acts238@nbnet.nb.ca writes:

<< Also a human nature has no bearing on the nature of the Godhead, since that
has 
 to do with divinity. >>
     I must place my agreement on this statement.  If Jesus does not have two
complete natures.  Our doctrine runs into several complications.  Jesus must
be 100% God and 100% Man.  Sometimes He acted as a Man (that  was the
sonship).  Other times He acted as God (that he did as Father).  As a man,  ha
had a human nature.  By that I mean that he had hunger and thirst and he had
the ability to be tempted,  "yet without sin."  He also had to have a human
spirit.  I will explain why I believe this in a moment.  But in his divinity,
Jesus was none other than God the Father.  He certainly was not God the Son as
trinitarians propose.  This is what makes Jesus God.  The fact that the Father
robed himself in flesh.
     Now I will explain why I feel that it is possible that Christ had a human
spirit.  If you remember when Christ was hanging on the cross,  Jesus cried
out,  Father Father,  why *hast thou* forsaken me.  It would appear that the
Father had already made its departure from the flesh.  This would be needful
in order that Christ might take upon himself the sins of the world.  For God
(the Father) cannot touch sin.  He cannot "dwell in an unclean temple,"  Which
is exactly what the bible calls Jesus body -- a temple.
     So,  the Father left the body of Christ.  Thus,  we hear Jesus crying
out,  why hast thou (past tense)  left me.  But we see that Jesus still lives.
Even though it was not much longer,  he still lives on.  Finally we hear him
say "It is finished."  And the bible says that he gave up the ghost.  That was
the human spirit.  What would the name of this spirit be called?  It is called
the Spirit of Life.  We all have it as humans.  Without the Spirit of Life,
we would all die.  It is what keeps us breathing,  moving and living.  
     We had the Spirit of Life when we were conceived in the womb.  And with
it we lived until we got saved.  And when we got saved,  we still had it.  And
when God takes it away,  we will die.
     This is what I feel.  I am still open to more revelation,  as I feel we
should all be.  So,  don't go getting "contentious" on me.   [:o)

Marlon