The Humanity of Jesus is no different than ours!

The humanity of Jesus is no different than ours!

When he was Incarnated, Jesus’ humanity held every attribute of emotions that were identical to ours.  A simplified list includes; happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust and in some cases contempt.  Jesus showed almost all of these during his 3.5 years of ministry and had he not exemplified these in times of reaction we could say he really wasn’t a human person.  

Before identifying as much as possible the moments Jesus responded, as we would, I would like to use the CCC to ensure that his humanity was 100 % like ours.

The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.  He became truly man while remaining truly God.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man.  During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.  (CCC 464).

Because “human nature was assumed, not absorbed,” in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body.  In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it.  Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from “One of the Trinity.”  The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity.  In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity.  (CCC 470).

Happiness/or humorous:  To what shall I compare this generation?  It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, “We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.”  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, “He is possessed by a demon.”  The Son of man came eating and drinking and they said, “Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.”  But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”  (Mt 11: 16 - 19).

Sadness:  “Where have you laid him?”  And Jesus wept.  “Take away the stone.”  “Lazarus, come out!”  “Untie him and let him go.”  (Jn 11: 34, 39, 43, 44).

Anger:  Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.”  (Lk 19: 45 - 46).

Fear:  Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still not my will but yours be done.  And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him.  He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.

(Lk 22: 42 - 44).

Ralph B. Hathaway