Bloggin’ the 28: God the Son, truly human

Continuing our summer Bloggin’ the 28 project, writer Trudy Morgan-Cole applies the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of God the Son to contemporary life.
I
am fairly sure that my Sabbath School and church school teachers did
not intend to transmit the heresy of Docetism; they were simply so
anxious to underline the divinity of Christ in a world that mocked it,
that they unintentionally backpedaled and downplayed His humanity.

It
wasn’t till I began reading the works of more liberal Christian writers
on the historical Jesus – authors like John Dominic Crossan and Marcus
Borg – that I began to seriously examine my perception of the humanity
of Jesus. While I couldn’t believe, as they did, that Jesus was merely human,
I realized when I explored my inner picture of Jesus that the Jesus I’d
been worshipping and following all these years wasn’t even truly
human. He was God dressed up as a human, like Superman wearing those
ridiculous Clark Kent glasses that apparently made it impossible for
anyone to recognize his true identity.

But
it wasn’t only the works of liberal Christians that forced me to
confront the humanity of Jesus. It was Scripture itself — passages like
the story of Jesus’ temptation by Satan in the wilderness (Matthew 4;
Luke 4). When Satan tempted Jesus, he threw down the challenge: “If you are the Son of God….” If
Jesus was incapable of self-doubt, if He knew He was divine the same
way I know I am a woman, then how was this a temptation? He wouldn’t
have been tempted, even for a moment, to prove Himself if there had
been no possibility of doubt.
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UPDATED:Sorry folks, I forgot to turn off the commenting. Before people self-lacerate on the comparison between God and mammon, visit Trudy’s site and join the conversation there.