(NOTE: This post is the first in a series on Jesus: The Perfect Man)
In 1976, at the Montreal Olympic Games, Nadia Comaneci received seven perfect tens. But was she perfect? Some would likely argue that no gymnast could ever perform perfectly. There had to be some minor error. But in this case, the judges didn’t see any errors. Of course, even perfection in most of the events would not make her a perfect gymnast in every respect. And of course even perfection in gymnastics does not come close to making her a perfect woman. We say it all the time, “No one’s perfect.” Ah, but we’re wrong.
We recognize Jesus as being perfect. Probably much of the time we are thinking of the truth that Jesus was sinless. This is true, and it certainly is a very important aspect of His perfection. But, there is so much more to Jesus, the perfect man that we will discover in this study.
In the last three studies, we have been focusing primarily on the deity of Jesus. In some ways, the title “Son of Man” forms a link between the deity of Jesus and the humanity of Jesus. As the Son of Man, Jesus is God who comes from Heaven, but He comes to earth to defeat evil and set up His kingdom. We will think more about the unique combination of deity and humanity in our next study, but in this study, we will focus exclusively on the nature of Jesus’ humanity and how He lived as a human. In order to fully appreciate Jesus’ humanity, when we focus on Jesus humanity, for a moment, for the most part, we lay aside the reality of His deity.
If we are going to talk about the humanity of Jesus, we need to talk about what it means to be human. Now that might seem like a really strange statement. After all, we all know what it means to be human; we are human for goodness sake! Well we may be human, but we are not human as God created us to be. We are fallen humans. So, the real question is, “What does it mean to be human as God created us to be?” What were humans like before sin.
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