Does God Want Us To Know The Truth?

Originally posted by jaywill
Why not? He had a hard time with a heavy wooden cross.

That's wasn't God. Point to josephw for his observation.

Originally posted by Badwater
That's wasn't God. Point to josephw for his observation.

No. That was God incarnate as the man Jesus Christ - a basic and cardinal tenet of the New Testament.

That was God as a man who wept, was tired, slept, hungered, eat, excremented, grew up, was sometimes surprised, grew weary, prayed, obeyed the Father, was tempted in all respects like regular men, worked as a carpenter, lived a perfect life, died, and rose again from the dead, went back to the eternal throne of God wearing forever our humanity, yet glorified.

He brought God into man. He then brought man into God. His plan to mass produce more God men comformed to the image of the Firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29).

That man is God. He lived as a man and is Lord of all forever. He is leading many sons into the same expression of the mingling of God and humanity:

"For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make that Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers." (Hebrews 2:10,11)

The eternal purpose of God is to express divinity from within humanity. Christ is the prototype and the standard model of the mingling of God and man.

This Jesus of Nazareth was God incarnate. And on earth He shared our human limitations though He was God in the flesh.

"God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself ..." (2 Cor. 4:19)