Grace & Peace!
Paarsurrey, I think the most basic issue here is that you do not understand Christianity. To understand the claims the Church makes regarding her Lord, you must make an effort to understand the terms and the concepts that she uses to understand those very same claims.
Now, it’s clear that you view Jesus through the lens of Islam. Given that you belong to a Muslim sect, that’s not surprising! But you cannot possibly claim to understand the Jesus of the Church by insisting that the Jesus of the Church is the Jesus of Islam. Furthermore, you will not be able to convince a Christian believer that the Jesus of Islam is the True Christ based on the work of Muslim exegetes, religious syncretists, or New Age conspiracy theorists. What is lacking in the above authors is the mind of the Church. They cannot properly discuss the Church’s Lord and Lover because they are not familiar with the Church.
I understand that you are interested in sharing your faith. I understand you are interested in sharing your love of Jesus. Both things are commendable. But by coming here and making the claims you make, given your sources, and given your lack of understanding of Catholic theology, you are like a passer-by who sees a man talking to a woman and then tells the man’s brother’s wife that her husband is having an affair. It just doesn’t make sense in context.
As soon as the Catholics add an absolute attribute of divinity in Jesus; to that extent he loses the perfectness of a human being.
What you need to understand here are the fundamentals of the theology surrounding the Trinity. You must understand the difference between Hypostasis (Person) and Ousia (Substance/Nature). Nature, Three Persons. Not three gods, but one God. Not one person, but three Persons. The economy of the Trinity is a reflection of what God has revealed himself to be–Love. God Himself is a communion of Love.
When the Church says that Jesus is God and Man, she understands that the Person of the Son assumed the Nature of Humanity. Jesus was not a god person and a human person in a human body. Jesus was not a divinized person. Jesus was the Very Son of God in two Natures–God and Man. True God as regards his divinity, True Man as regards his humanity. One Person. The assumption of humanity by the Son of God is part of a great act of love–God assumes into his divinity our humanity. In the person of Jesus, Heaven and Earth are wed. When Jesus suffers on the Cross for us, he suffers the result of human sin. By his death and resurrection, he makes our human death into a birth into new life. By his ascension, he raises our humanity into the very heights of heaven. If he was not fully human, we could not be fully saved. If he was not fully God, he could not fully save us. But in him we see the destiny of humanity–what he is, we shall be. Or as Maximos the Confessor, I believe, writes (and I may b paraphrasing), “What God is by nature, we shall be by grace.” This is the mystery of theosis displayed to us by Jesus. The unfolding of this mystery’s process is moreover demonstarted to us in Mary.
As I wrote earlier; man is apt to err sometimes so that he is humble and has humility; this is an attribute of a human, when you add an attribute which truly belogs to GodAllahYHWH ie Jesus never erred, a lofty attribut, then on one hand he does not become a divine just because you say so, on the other hand you make him imperfect man in your imagination.
Sharing our nature, the Son of God experienced all of our own weaknesses. But being God, he did not fall prey to them. When Adam was made, he was perfect. His fall introduced into human nature the stain of sin which is alien to his nature. By becoming human, the Son of God restores human nature to its original fullness. His human will, so wayward in us, was perfectly aligned with his Divine will.
Part of the essence of the Christian mystery is that God wishes to be in relationship with us, He wishes us to be one with him. This oneness cannot be accomplished through transforming our human nature into God’s nature. That would destroy us. It cannot be accomplished by the extinguishing of who we are in the fire of God’s love–that is truly death, we could not survive it. What it means is that God graciously comes to us in love by marrying to himself our humanity in the Incarnation of Jesus. Through Jesus, we have access to God’s own Divine Life of Love. Love requires Lover and the Beloved. We are God’s Beloved. And He comes to us as we are so that we may be as He is. If you do not understand this Mystery of Love, you do not understand Jesus or the Incarnation and it is fruitless to speculate on it.
Under the Mercy,
Mark
All is grace and mercy. Deo Gratias!
