Jesus 101 – 1 (Edited by ChatGPT)

 

Human beings are spirit, flesh, and soul. The flesh comes from the dust of our genetics, while the spirit comes from heaven. So when we say “I,” we are also a kind of trinity. There is the invisible spirit, which defines who we are in spirit; there is our flesh, the clay – the visible part of us – in which the spirit is given; and then there is the soul, formed by the consciousness of the flesh through the spirit, which becomes the self-conscious part of our existence.

 

Jesus, however, could not have been created as spirit, because before he was born he already existed as the living Spirit, as God, and as the Lord of the host of angels. The spirit of Jesus was manifested in a human body by being conceived in his mother’s womb, and he gained consciousness over time like any human being. There was a time when he did not eat milk and honey, and a time when he did not yet know good from bad, though holiness was his nature. He grew up as a child, yet in spirit he was always God.

 

Just as man is not only body, or only soul, or only spirit – though spirit is the most important – Jesus is not only spirit, or only body, or only soul. He is the fullness. Jesus is the eternal Spirit, the Lord of hosts, God Himself, in flesh. He is not merely flesh, just as we are not merely our flesh.

 

When Jesus died, his body died, but his spirit was alive and free. Our spirit is made to function with the body – we can think of the body as hardware, and the spirit and soul as software. But Jesus has a spirit that can operate without the body, because he is not only man but also God – fully man and fully God. So when he died in the flesh, he lived on in spirit. He returned to his eternal state, his old self, without the flesh. The resurrection, then, did not resurrect God – for God does not die – but it resurrected the man Jesus, his body. 


Just as the Holy Spirit gave birth to Jesus in the womb – meaning He infused the eternal God Jesus, the Spirit, into the flesh made from Mary to form one living and holy child – so also at the resurrection, the Holy Spirit infused the body of Jesus with the Spirit of God Jesus, raising Him as the resurrected Christ who appeared to his disciples. 

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