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Life's Questions and Christian Belief

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07. Who is Jesus?

2. Nature of Christ
07.2 - Jesus - Nature

The questions are the title of the above painting by Paul Gauguin, explained in Wikipedia as follows:

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (French: D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered “a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels”.

Wiki explains that Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school with a strong religious focus, and although he became anticlerical, these questions stayed with him.

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Nature of Christ
(1)  Does the Bible say Jesus is true man?
1 Timothy 2:5-6
Romans 9:5
Luke 24:39
Hebrews 2:14
(2)  Does the Bible say Jesus is true God?
Matthew 17:5
1 John 5:20
John 1:14
1 Timothy 3:16
1 Cor 15:47
(3)  Why was it necessary for Christ to be true Man?
(4)  Why was it necessary for Christ to be true God?
(5)  This is what is revealed in the Bible, but is it possible for the mere human mind to fully comprehend this?  (Remember that the nature of God is beyond time and space, and the human mind cannot comprehend that)
(6)  What do you think of the response of a person who says, "I cannot understand that, therefore I will not accept it."?  If we are discussing a philosophical outlook, that could be a reasonable response.
But would you reject essential, life-saving surgery, if you couldn't understand how it was to be done?  And is that closer to what we are looking at?
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