Final Thoughts



Most of us grow up learning about Jesus in school or from our parents, who we hear it from doesn't make all that much of a difference. Most of what we learn focuses on Jesus's divinity and less about his humanity. And what comes of this is a lesser understanding in my opinion of who he really was. I think that often when reading from scriptures its hard to understand what to believe or what Jesus really meant when he spoke in parables, but we can understand this more through understanding his human qualities. I can't answer whether Jesus was fully human or fully divine, I find I can understand him better by looking at him as a human, but still not denying his divinity.


In an section from his book Mere Christanity C.S. Lewis addressed many of these same issues only pertaining to christianity. I think he came up with similar answers also. One of the points he made was that a central belief to Christanity is that Jesus's dying and resurrection worked for us and "put us right with God." He also adds that there are numerous theories as to how the resurection actually happened yet these are besides the point, the belief we should focus on is that it did happen and we need to believe that it worked not be caught up in how it happened.


Another thing I found interesting in the section from C.S.Lewis's book was his analogy to scientists explaining atoms. He says that scientists offer picture to help understand atoms yet what they truly believe is not the pictures but the mathematical formulas that helped to create them. I find this true when studying Jesus. The theories and things that attempt to explain the parts of Jesus that we find hard to understand do sometimes give us a clearer picture of who jesus was, yet they also disguise him. I think ultimately that different theories may be able to help me understand how this man Jesus could have been fully divine and fully human, yet its not up to me to say whether he was or wasn't, This is where faith enters our equation, believing that he was should have more of an effect on us than trying to explain how he was.