Player-Coach Analogy for Jesus

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Jesus had two natures: he was fully human and fully divine. Does the following analogy help to understand this mystery or am I drifting into some heresy?

In team sport usually a coach is not a player. However, on rare occasions the coach also plays. In this case, playing and coaching exist in harmony in one person.

A similar analogy might also be applied to movies. A movie-director may also act in the very movie that he is directing. Jesus directs this drama called History of the World and He also plays a not-insignificant acting role in this drama.

Are these analogies a help or a hindrance in understanding this mystery?
 
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I canot see any problems…however, in the context of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost gets left out of these analogies 😦😦😦
 
Doesn’t do a thing for me, and if one of my catechists had gone there, I would remind them that kids/teens are not dumb.
 
I like the idea. What sport would you associate Jesus with as a coach? I would suggest wrestling.
 
Thanks Monicad. I think that you are onto something good there 🙂 …as long as you are not saying that we have a divine nature. We don’t have a divine nature - only the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have a divine nature. We may however “participate” in God’s nature, and we do this by the gift of grace. He wants to put His life into us.

Thus, Our Lady didn’t have a divine nature but she was full of divine grace (also called divine life). We receive grace from God pre-eminently from the sacraments of the Church.

The immortality of the human soul still is an aspect of “humanity” although it bears the likeness of God as you rightly point out. Thank you.
 
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