Ah, a great question for Bahais to pounce on Christian beliefs!
What is wrong with that? When a God appears in a human form, he does all what humans do. Eat, sleep, ****, obey elders, marries, raises children, dies.
That is called 'leela'.
Good answer.
To empathize with anyone, one needs to to walk a mile in their shoes. From that experience of empathy, one will better know why that person will do as they do. Jesus had to have human limitations imposed, so he could walk a mile in human shoes, so when he was resurrected he could then intercede for humans, based on his first hand experience of their needs.
An analogy is having many children, with some very dutiful and others not so much. You would like to push all the children to the max for success, but some are not keeping up. Do you get mad at the slackers and be happy with the doers? Or do you try to empathize with the slackers, to see why this is happening? In terms of further limitations, Jesus often hung with the sinners who were often the slackers of the law. Jesus was curious as to why law did not work for them.
In doing so, he found the so-called sinners, were basically good people but it was not in their nature to be overly structured by petty law. This was not so much a conscious disregard of the law, but an innate inertia to go in different directions; victimless crimes.
Like in the case of empathizing with the slacker child, the father learns that this child of God, is more designed to be an artist, than a hard working farmer, so he accepts him as he is. But to do so, he needs to change the rules; law, into guide lines, that offer flexibility to maximize each person. He leaves behind the spirit of truth and the forgiveness of sins so each find their true self.
And ate. And suffered. And died. But resurrected defeating death, hell and the grave so that humanity could reunite with their Creator.
