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The Paradox'S In Jesus' Life


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Other then Jesus created the worlds yet he had nowhere to lay his head does anyone else know of any paradox's in Jesus life?

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Other then Jesus created the worlds yet he had nowhere to lay his head does anyone else know of any paradox's in Jesus life?

How is that a paradox?

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Other then Jesus created the worlds yet he had nowhere to lay his head does anyone else know of any paradox's in Jesus life?

Like the general theme of all christology??

Jesus was both fully divine and fully human! Probably a good place to start.

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How is that a paradox?

he made everything but he didn't have a place to sleep or something along those lines, like getting kicked out of place you built

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Like the general theme of all christology??

Jesus was both fully divine and fully human! Probably a good place to start.

yes! I saw a list once about things in his life that were paradox's

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he made everything but he didn't have a place to sleep or something along those lines, like getting kicked out of place you built

I don't call that a paradox but rather see it as ironic(3. Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended: madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker.)

However, I can see how it could be seen as a paradox.

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To possess the source of all knowledge, yet be accused of being (seen as) insane, sinful, dangerous, even deadly to the dominant paradigm. He was the author of the religion of his earthly forefathers, yet it was the heirs, to the very religion he headed as their God, who had him executed....

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Other then Jesus created the worlds yet he had nowhere to lay his head does anyone else know of any paradox's in Jesus life?

A few that come to mind, but they do make sense in light of the Infinite Atonement, which brings seeming contractions together: He is the First and the Last. The Lamb and the Lion. Sinless, yet suffered the pains of sin. Our Judge and Advocate. The Servant and the Master. The Father and the Son.

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How about Luke 2?

22 And when the days of her
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according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the
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shall be called holy to the Lord;)

24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of
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, or two young pigeons.

No wait, that's a pair of turtledoves, not a pair of ducks. My bad.

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Putting down our own burden to take up his which is both easy and impossible and must be endured to the end.

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