(March 6, 2019 at 8:49 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: That said, there was one strain of thought in Christianity that said that Jesus dud not actually die on the Cross because his humanity was all an illusion. It was called Docetism and it was roundly rejected at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
That’s kinda interesting and something I thought might be the answer. But it goes against the theology I was taught. When I studied theology the priest told us that the reason god came down as Jesus was so he could live and die as a man. He referred back to genesis where it talks of god walking with Adam, so god had a body and could walk with man but was not human. So when god came down as Jesus he was a man. He lived as a man, he died as a man.
(Off topic, but this is why it always made sense to me that Jesus was married. After all, if he’s going to live as a man god has to experience life AS a man.)
So while it would make logical (sorta) sense for him not to be human, it wouldn’t necessarily make theological sense. Thus the dying and decomposing question still remains.
