Jesus Not Exercising His Divinity While On Earth

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All the talk about Christ doing the Father’s will had a purpose back then undoing Adam’s transgression and providing an example for us all, but it really is not appropriate to speak of Christ like this when we are describing Him in His essence. These things are purely part of His condescension. Like a doctor that is willing to get dirty and experience the smells, liquids, and all other lowly realities of the sick person he is healing. It would not be appropriate to say these lowly things are really definitions of the doctor. But at the same time we should never forget that the doctor does these things even given the good health he has, because they are very loving and needed. If anything we speak higher of the doctor because He does these things. Same with Christ our God.

Not sure if follow your logic. Is Christ doing the things he does, performing miracles, claiming divinity, and the rest of it, as a human not wanting to showboat that he is in fact not only part of humanity but is God?
 
I am going to ask her next time I see her about the reasoning she uses that Christ did not utilize his divinity while on earth. As stated previously, her training in theology seems to be right out of an Assembly Of God apologetic or a reasonable facsimile thereof manual: The Rapture Trap and Jesus’s commandments in Matthew 5 superseding or supplanting the 10 Commandments received by Moses. The latter one being I have never heard before.
 
this probably is not sufficient for a non-catholic christian, but…

was establishing His Church Jesus exercising only His human nature?

was instituting the Holy Eucharist Jesus exercising only His human nature?

was not Jesus’ human nature itself an exercise of His divinity.

i fear the woman the OP speaks of is not prepared to receive the intellectual aspects of the Gospel. emphasizing the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, as well as prayer, penance and alms giving may be more fruitful for her than attempting to engage in an intellectual discussion for which she seems ill-prepared.
 
After some research think I may have found the scripture that backs my friend’s contention that Jesus Christ did not exercise his divinity while on earth: Philippians 2/6-8: “Who, although existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking a form of a bond servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in the appearance of a man, he humbled Himself by being obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.”

Any thoughts on this?
 
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After some research think I may have found the scripture that backs my friend’s contention that Jesus Christ did not exercise his divinity while on earth: Philippians 2/6-8: “Who, although existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking a form of a bond servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in the appearance of a man, he humbled Himself by being obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.”

Any thoughts on this?
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A correct understanding of Christology requires a lot of study. It took the church until the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 681 AD to fully develop its understanding of Christology. I would start with this:

newadvent.org/cathen/14597a.htm

Aquinas also answers a lot of common misconceptions about the Incarnation here:

newadvent.org/summa/4.htm
 
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