You've already told us Jesus was only PART man.
Jesus was PART God and PART man since he has a human nature and a divine nature.
Anyone who is only PART man is simply NOT human, he is only PART human, and since Adam was FULLY human, a PART human cannot possibly be the 2nd Adam.
Forget what I said above since I explained it incorrectly.
Jesus was a man who had a human nature
and a divine nature.
So Jesus was fully man, but Jesus was not fully God or God in any other way.
Sure, if he's only part man and part God, then yes, he is neither man nor God!
Forget what I said before since I explained it incorrectly.
Jesus was a man.
We have a Jesus who is not an ordinary man or God.
Baha'is believe that Jesus was a Manifestation of God who had a human nature and a divine nature so Jesus was not an ordinary man.
“Unto this subtle, this mysterious and ethereal Being He hath assigned a twofold nature; the physical, pertaining to the world of matter, and the spiritual, which is born of the substance of God Himself. He hath, moreover, conferred upon Him a double station. The first station, which is related to His innermost reality, representeth Him as One Whose voice is the voice of God Himself. To this testifieth the tradition: “Manifold and mysterious is My relationship with God. I am He, Himself, and He is I, Myself, except that I am that I am, and He is that He is.” …. The second station is the human station, exemplified by the following verses: “I am but a man like you.” “Say, praise be to my Lord! Am I more than a man, an apostle?”
There is NO REDEMPTION for man if Jesus is NOT fully man. The Romans may as well have nailed a sheep or a goat to the cross.
Jesus was fully man.
And there is NO MEDIATOR between God and man if Jesus is not FULLY both.
Jesus could not be a Mediator
between God and man if Jesus was God because a Mediator mediates between two
dissimilar entities.
As a Manifestation of God who had a human nature and a divine nature Jesus was perfectly suited to mediate between man and God.
But you just told us that God is Spirit and a spirit doesn't have offspring:
I said:
It takes two to create offspring.
That is true in all cases except in the case of Jesus.
Usually it takes two, but that was not the case with Jesus because Jesus had no father, only a mother.
Jesus was conceived of Mary
and the Holy Spirit of God.
That does not make God the father of Jesus since the Holy Spirit is not God, it is the Bounty of God.
Question.—What is the Holy Spirit?
Answer.—The Holy Spirit is the Bounty of God and the luminous rays which emanate from the Manifestations; for the focus of the rays of the Sun of Reality was Christ, and from this glorious focus, which is the Reality of Christ, the Bounty of God reflected upon the other mirrors which were the reality of the Apostles. The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles signifies that the glorious divine bounties reflected and appeared in their reality. Moreover, entrance and exit, descent and ascent, are characteristics of bodies and not of spirits—that is to say, sensible realities enter and come forth, but intellectual subtleties and mental realities, such as intelligence, love, knowledge, imagination and thought, do not enter, nor come forth, nor descend, but rather they have direct connection.
From my perspective, Bahai not only have a contradictory Jesus, but a contradictory God. He has offspring because it takes two to create offspring, because God is Spirit that does not have offspring, because only biological entities can have offspring.
Simply put, God cannot have offspring because God is not a biological entity.
Jesus was conceived of Mary and the Holy Spirit of God.
I am really running late, so for now I will post what Baha'is believe about the Virgin Birth.
1637. Christ, Virgin Birth of
"First regarding the birth of Jesus Christ. In light of what Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá have stated concerning this subject it is evident that Jesus came into this world through the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit, and that consequently His birth was quite miraculous. This is an established fact, and the friends need not feel at all surprised, as the belief in the possibility of miracles has never been rejected in the Teachings. Their importance, however, has been minimized."
(From a letter dated December 31, 1937 written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer)
1639. Bahá’í Teachings in Agreement with Doctrines of Catholic Church Concerning the Virgin Birth
"With regard to your question concerning the Virgin Birth of Jesus: On this point, as on several others, the Bahá’í Teachings are in full agreement with the doctrines of the Catholic Church. In the 'Kitáb-i-Íqán' (Book of Certitude) p. 56, and in a few other Tablets still unpublished, Bahá’u’lláh confirms, however indirectly, the Catholic conception of the Virgin Birth. Also ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the 'Some Answered Questions', Chap. XII, p. 73, explicitly states that 'Christ found existence through the Spirit of God' which statement necessarily implies, when viewed in the light of the text, that Jesus was not the son of Joseph."
(From a letter dated October 14, 1945 written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer)
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