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Jesusanity: He Still Was Human

Posted by Chris Case | January 23, 2008 .

In one of his more recent posts, Albert Mohler tells of how post-modern culture has the tendency to ‘dethrone’ Jesus, often presenting Jesus as simply a great teacher, but not acknowledging his divinity. Although I understand Mohler’s critique of those who do wish to present him as a great teacher, I do not see this as either simply postmodern nor invaluable.

He points out that groups, such as National Geographic, are the ones presenting him as simply a teacher and seeking to debunk his historicity and divinity. What I fail to understand and Mohler fails to present, is how this is at all connected with postmodernism. I am assuming that National Geographic is hardly run by evanglical Christians, and if that’s the case, they could only present Christ that way. How do you expect them to present Jesus if they don’t have the Spirit to really understand Jesus.

Secondly, maybe its the postmodern in me, but I strongly connect with the humanity of Christ. The love is Christ is exemplified not merely in his divinity, something that was simply a shadow in the Old Testament, but through his humanity, which showed the true nature of Christ’s love in the New Testament. We finally saw in one HUMAN how to live out devotion to God the Father. It is the humanity of Christ where we find connection, to understand how we in our flesh and not divine, can connect with the divine. Spurgeon does a great job laying out the majesty of the humility:

As He grows up, the very growth shows how completely human He is. He does not spring into full manhood at once, but He grows in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. When he reaches man’s estate, He gets the common stamp of manhood upon His brow. “In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread” is the common heritage of us all, and He receives no better. The carpenter’s shop must witness to the toils of a Savior, and when He becomes the preacher and the prophet, still we read such significant words as these—”Jesus, being weary sat thus on the well.” We find Him needing to betake Himself to rest in sleep. He slumbers at the stem of the vessel when it is tossed in the midst of the tempest. Brethren, if sorrow be the mark of real manhood, and “man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward,” certainly Jesus Christ has the truest evidence of being a man. If to hunger and to thirst be signs that He was no shadow, and His manhood no fiction, you have these. If to associate with His fellow-men, and eat and drink as they did, will be proof to your mind that He was none other than a man, you see Him sitting at a feast one day, at another time He graces a marriage-supper, and on another occasion He is hungry and “hath not where to lay His head” (C.H. Spurgeon)

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