Jesus, the tent?

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Bro Yohnk:
>I really don't believe that God ever had trouble misuderstanding our
>plight.  We, however, have had trouble believing that God could
>understand us.  I think it helps us, rather than God, that God was in
>flesh.  As far as the difference between our human nature and Jesus'
>human nature the fact that Jesus was literally begotten by God must make
>some difference.(John 3:16) We have an earthly father but Jesus had an
>heavenly father. 
>
>Lynne Yohnk


Me:

Fair enough.  You or I, believing or not has no actual effect on the facts
of the matter. ;-)  I do, however, believe that God had trouble
understanding on a first person level (or by first hand experience), what it
is like to be human.  God, I can say with all certainty, never experienced
what it was like to be human for all eternity up until the Birth of Christ. 
He had never *actually* possesed a body.  He had of course experienced it in
his logos (idea), but as is everything when thought of in ones mind, the
actualization of, or fulfillment of, ones idea is often times different and
more fulfilling.  I believe that God's idea and plan did not reach its
fullest potential until Calvary.  God, while being omniscient, had no *REAL*
experience at being Human with *ALL* the baggage (minus of course the sin
nature of Adam) that comes with being human and living in this world.  He
accomplished, and fully experienced, all this "yet without sin".  All of
these things being accomplished he was able to be, to us, what Job lamented
for.  The difference that was made, by God fathering or Begetting the flesh,
was the Sin of Adam that was passed on to every person that had an earthly
Father.

Yours, in Jesus,

Jeff Wescott