How can anyone look at Jesus as just a normal human-being after having believed him to be God?

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This was the one thing that prevented me from joining non-Christian religions at the points in my life when I really wanted to. I just could never in my heart or with my lips say that Jesus was just a human being (however special) and no more.

I’m curious as to how or why people who leave the Church, or Christianity in general for other religions can come to see Christ as just a Prophet or wise man etc and nothing more, after having believed him to be God himself! I’m wondering what a profound event in their minds would have to be involved in going from looking at Christ as God incarnate to just another human person- like them! 🤷
 
I would guess that they are rejecting one aspect of Him. You have to remember that we cannot just view him as God either. We believe Jesus to be both God AND man.

From our own creed:

Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man

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480 Jesus Christ is true God and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and men.
481 Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God’s Son.
482 Christ, being true God and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
483 The Incarnation is therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word.

So I guess that if they just viewed him as just a man, that they are rejecting one of His natures.
 
Hello,
I think if you leave for a non Christian religion it might be precisely because you haven’t believed him to God in the first place.
Just one theory.
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Deborah123 said:
Hello,
I think if you leave for a non Christian religion it might be precisely because you haven’t believed him to God in the first place.
Just one theory.
D x
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Interesting. Makes sense too. I wonder if there are people who have genuinely believed in Christ as Son of God/God incarnate who later believed that Christ was only a very good man, prophet but nothing more :hmmm:.
 
People reject Jesus for their personal selfish reasons and because Christianity operates on a set of ancient Commandments (not suggestions).

Society conforms itself to suggestions, materialism and relativism.
 
I feel many people don’t fully open there hearts and minds to the Horrific, Bloody, Brutal sacrifice that Jesus was for our Salvation. I think it also is a fundamental reason why someone like a Joel Osteen or other Mega Church Pastors have so many followers today. You will never here Joel preach about Christ at Calvary. Most likely you will hear a prosperity message or some other preaching that doesn’t tie into the totality of his Suffering.

I posed this question to my Pastor at a little Non Denom Church I went to.*** I asked him have we as Christians Domesticated Jesus?*** Have we turned him into a Role Model and stripped away what he did for us and his status as both MAN and GOD.

At that church it also stunned me that there was no pictures of Christ on the Cross any where. There definitely isn’t one at the Basketball stadium Joel Osteen Preaches at either. One of the big things that stood out to me when I went to mass last week for the 1st time in a long time was that his presence was right in front of me as I walked into the Church. There was no turning from it and Hiding after all it was around a 12 ft statue right on the wall. I felt a sense of Reverence for him. Maybe thats what people are missing maybe they dont have a Reverence for Christ and maybe thats what they need to spend more time in prayer and Scripture about. Just my whacky 2 cents…
 
Marybeloved said:
This was the one thing that prevented me from joining non-Christian religions at the points in my life when I really wanted to. I just could never in my heart or with my lips say that Jesus was just a human being (however special) and no more.

I’m curious as to how or why people who leave the Church, or Christianity in general for other religions can come to see Christ as just a Prophet or wise man etc and nothing more, after having believed him to be God himself! I’m wondering what a profound event in their minds would have to be involved in going from looking at Christ as God incarnate to just another human person- like them! 🤷
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If they ever knew Christ, they have drifted so far as to ‘reject the Holy Spirit’ which I think is considered unpardonable.
 
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