Jesus is FULLY human and FULLY divine at the same time

[Ad_Orientem]

But Jesus has a “fully human nature” that cannot sin although He may be tempted?

He cannot be tempted anymore, but during His earthly life He could be tempted only from without (by the suggestions of others), and not from any perverted inclination within, of which there was and is none (unlike us, who have an inclination to sin called concupiscence).

His Mother, too, was given sanctifying grace from her conception, so that she never had a fallen nature, and thus never experienced concupiscence. She was given this singular privilege in virtue of her dignity as Mother of God. The human nature that Christ took from the womb of the Virgin was fully human, but without the stain of sin.

And no, Christ could never have sinned, nor could His Mother have sinned: not by a limitation on freedom, but by a superabundance of grace making them supremely free to choose the good. In theological terminology, they were confirmed in grace. Not so Adam and Eve before their fall.

Christ (in His humanity) also had, from his conception, the face to face vision of God. No man who sees God immediately with the eye of the soul can commit sin: because in that state it is impossible to desire any good more than the obviously supreme good. The angels and saints in heaven enjoy this state.

 

[meltzerboy]

He cannot be tempted anymore, but during His earthly life He could be tempted only from without (by the suggestions of others), and not from any perverted inclination within, of which there was and is none (unlike us, who have an inclination to sin called concupiscence).

His Mother, too, was given sanctifying grace from her conception, so that she never had a fallen nature, and thus never experienced concupiscence. She was given this singular privilege in virtue of her dignity as Mother of God. The human nature that Christ took from the womb of the Virgin was fully human, but without the stain of sin.

And no, Christ could never have sinned, nor could His Mother have sinned: not by a limitation on freedom, but by a superabundance of grace making them supremely free to choose the good. In theological terminology, they were confirmed in grace. Not so Adam and Eve before their fall.

Christ (in His humanity) also had, from his conception, the face to face vision of God. No man who sees God immediately with the eye of the soul can commit sin: because in that state it is impossible to value any good higher than the supreme good. Such are the angels and saints in heaven.

Great answer, if I say so myself! Thank you.

 

[wmw]

From the CCC:

IV. HOW IS THE SON OF GOD MAN?

470 Because “human nature was assumed, not absorbed”,97 in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from “one of the Trinity”. The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:98

The Son of God. . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.99
Christ’s soul and his human knowledge

471 Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also assumed a rational, human soul.100

472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, “increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man”,101 and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.102 This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking “the form of a slave”.103

473 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God’s Son expressed the divine life of his person.104 "The human nature of God’s Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God."105 Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.106 The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.107

474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.108 What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.109

Christ’s human will

475 Similarly, at the sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not opposed to each other, but cooperate in such a way that the Word made flesh willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation.110 Christ’s human will "does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty will."111

Christ’s true body

476 Since the Word became flesh in assuming a true humanity, Christ’s body was finite.112 Therefore the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy images to be legitimate.113

477 At the same time the Church has always acknowledged that in the body of Jesus "we see our God made visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see."114 The individual characteristics of Christ’s body express the divine person of God’s Son. He has made the features of his human body his own, to the point that they can be venerated when portrayed in a holy image, for the believer “who venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one depicted”.115

The heart of the Incarnate Word

478 Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each one of us: "The Son of God. . . loved me and gave himself for me."116 He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation,117 “is quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that. . . love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings” without exception.118

 

[KP3243]

What does “person” mean and how does it differ from “nature”?

We are all humans by nature but I am KP no one else is KP and no one else can ever be me or you or anyone else because we are individual persons only created once, we are authentic in our personhood.

 

[KP3243]

Jesus’ nature is both divine God and human. In order to save us from slavery of sin, God came down to our level to teach us and liberate mankind and restore us to sons and daughters of God which Adam and Eve lost for all of mankind at The Fall. Without completely throwing you off, this dual nature is why Catholics hold the Eucharist so sacredly because Jesus give us His own self for us to eat, Emmanuel, God is with us. The Eucharist allows God to be truly present, body blood soul and divinity, inside every human person. God knows we cannot sin and we really can’t break ourselves from the bonds of sin without His help, but this is not heaven and the Eucharist strengthens us against the temptation of the world around us, the Eucharist is so holy that taking the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin, would cause a person to be guilty of the body and blood of Jesus. The mass unites heaven and earth even if it is just briefly. Things like the manna from heaven and the Ark of the Covenant are foreshadowing’s Christ and the Eucharist.