Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Human Spirit of Jesus?


This is an exchange between Michael Burgos' and yours truly dated 3/31/11  This discussion was on the subject  of the genuine human spirit of Jesus, and had actually been going on years before with blog comments, and email exchanges where Mr. Burgos  had made the claim:" he did not believe Jesus had a human spirit, and then he later  saw his error and changed to say he did have a human spirit," or so he claimed. Of course the evidence of his own words say otherwise. I write the following:

"I never said anything nor will I ever use the cop-out term: natures so I am not accusing you of mixing natures! I am accusing you of having a mix hybrid person. Do not assume what you cannot prove. Just tell us Jesus had a human spirit.
Did Jesus have two spirits or not?"

Michael Burgos says the following:" :πνεύμα when applied to humans is synonomous with ψυχή 99% of the time. Whichever terminology you would like to couch the immaterial human aspect in, it is clear that I and the vast majority of Trinitarians affirm that the Son has a human spirit.

Your question poses a false dichotomy based upon the assumption that the word spirit has only one meaning. The Son has a human spirit as he is like us in all ways yet without sin. But He is also God who is a spirit. The one person who is the Son possesses two different natures. To say that Jesus had two spirits fails to recognize the range of meaning of the word "spirit."(Carm.org).

So there you have it.  What kind of  mix spirit did Jesus have according to Burgos?  How is that a human spirit? It is my claim that Jesus had both one Human, and one divine spirit in his person as he was both God, and man.  To not have a genuine human spirit would make him something else. (Read Luke 23:46) I would like to know especially since Mr. Burgos has written a new book and has made claim to expertise in these matters and then further criticizes the Oneness view.

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