INTRODUCTION TO SPIRITUALITY

NAMES REGISTRATION SIGNATURE

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ALEX MCHINA

ALPHONCE LUBASA

EINHARD MAPUNDA BAPH/0363/2023

GERVAS MAYOMBO

MOSES MSAFIRI BAPH/0420/2023

TAIDEI SANGA
 1. Jesus is both the divine person and a human person

Jesus is both the divine person and a human person because in His life in the world
as human person, he was experiencing the feelings which the normal human beings
experience. For example in the Gospel of John Jesus got fatigue when he was on the
journey to Galilee, “Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour” (John 4:6). Therefore, by so
being it shows that Jesus was pure human person.

On the other hand, He is also a divine person because there are things which he was
doing surpassed the human person ability. For example: He walking on water, “So when
they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, the see Jesus walking on the sea,
and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid” (John 6:19). He also changed water
into wine in the Marriage festival in Cana, “Jesus said to them, ‘fill the water pots with
water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. And he said, ‘draw out now, and bear unto the
governor of the feast.’ And they bear it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, the governor of the feast called the
bridegroom, and said unto him, ‘every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and
when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine
until now.’” (John 2:7-10).

2. To explain the mistake from the five statements provided

(i) God has never died. The statement is true because God is eternity; He has
neither beginning nor end. Though the Second person from the Holy Trinity, the Son, died
for serving the human person from the slavery of sins and brings them all to Him who is
the Father of all.

(ii) When Jesus does something human, He is not doing something that God does;
it is true that there are things which Jesus in his human person does which God can not do.
For example: “Jesus wept” (John 11:35), the act of weeping occurred due to his feelings as
the human person by which God can not do it.

(iii) When Jesus does something divine, for instance walk on water, he is doing
something that is impossible for Him to do in the human nature; that is absolutely correctly
because the incidence of walking on water is beyond the human nature thus only in
divinity power can surpasses the nature, that is, going against the nature, “They saw Jesus
walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.” (John 6:19b).
Also, the multiplicity of the bread and fish and feed five thousand men, “And Jesus took
the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples
to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.” (John
6:11). Thus, all these were done when he was in the divinity power and if he would be in
the human person he could not do them.

(iv) God in himself does not suffer; Suffering is the one of the characteristics of the
human person, thus God as the divinity and the creator of everything it is absolutely true to
say He in Himself does not suffer. Though, the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity
in the likeness of the human person suffered, died and the in the third day rose from the
dead for deliberating the human beings from the slavery of sins. “For even hereunto were
you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should
follow his steps.” (1 Peter 2:21).

(v) In the Gospel of John, Jesus never says directly that He is God; By this
statement is not true because there was time when Jesus was direct expressing himself as
God, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this
world.” (John 8:24). Now by saying so, it is seemed as if he was direct expressing himself
that he is God who is above the world.