As pointed out on a number of occasions, a mediator is 'not a mediator of one'. This means Jesus cannot be 100% man and a mediator. Nor can he be 100% God and a mediator. To be a mediator Jesus Christ must be BOTH 100% human and 100% God. I would not call Jesus Christ my God if he were not 100% God!
This may be your conclusion but there is nothing scriptural about it apart from your inserting suggestions into that conclusion to service your own beliefs.
There is not a single scripture offered as a clear statement to support your assertion that “To be a mediator Jesus Christ must be BOTH 100% human and 100% God.”
Unless you can provide one statement from either Jesus or his Father that they share equality or that each sees the other as God, You don’t have a leg to stand on.
I’m not even sure you understand Jesus’ role as Mediator.
To be a Mediator, Jesus was the ‘go-between’ to allow access to God via this Mediator, whilst humans were still in their sinful state. It was a very loving provision.
If sinful humans cannot access God unless they have that avenue of communication, how can Jesus be God? Your beliefs are both illogical and unscriptural.
If Jesus was God, then logically, we would need a Mediator between us and him. Sin is the barrier that Jesus bridges between us and the Father. Can you see the impediment?
All of the scripture that I have provided to support my own beliefs are solid, direct statements from the Bible. I have yet to see anything but misinterpretations from you in support of your beliefs. And the fact that you do not address many of my questions.
God the Father is Spirit, and remains invisible Spirit throughout the redemption of mankind.
I see here where there is a misunderstanding even about God and the operation of God’s spirit. Jehovah IS a spirit, but HE is not “the Holy Spirit”......the spirit that emanates from God is his immense power. It is apportioned according to need. It is something he provides, not something that identifies him personally. His spirit is not a person....it is how uses his power to accomplish his will.
By misunderstanding the roles of Father, son and holy spirit we have a recipe for a blasphemy that permeates all of Christendom, divided on many other things, but accepting of this one unscriptural notion almost universally. (albeit in different interpretations) The idea that Father, son and holy spirit were three persons in one “godhead” did not even exist when Jesus walked the earth, nor was it taught by the apostles. It is an ungodly product of the “weeds” ‘sown by the devil’ that Jesus warned about. (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-42) No wonder that Jesus said “few” are on the road to life. (Matthew 7:13-14)
His chosen strength and righteousness on earth is his Son, a mediator who is both man and God. When Jesus is raised from the dead, the mortal is turned to immortal and you no longer have the earthly vessel needed whilst on earth. But exalted to heaven is the soul of Jesus, now united with the Holy Spirit, such is the obedience of his soul.
Again, this is not scriptural.
Jesus was 100% mortal human or else he could not have died.
His resurrection was “in the spirit” which was necessary to facilitate his return to heaven. Jesus the man
was a soul, and when he died the soul that was God’s son on earth ceased to exist (offered in sacrifice as the redemption price for the human race) and his Father resurrected the spirit that Jesus was before his human birth. He was sent from heaven, and returned there.
1 Corinthians 15:42-50....
“So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. 44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living person.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, what is spiritual is not first. What is physical is first, and afterward what is spiritual. 47 The first man is from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust; and like the heavenly one, so too are those who are heavenly. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we will bear also the image of the heavenly one.
50 But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.”
What do you read there? What sort of body is needed to live in heaven (the spirit realm)?
Jesus lived and died just like these ones who are chosen to rule with him in his kingdom. They were mortals who died as “souls” (living, breathing creatures by the Bible’s definition) and who are resurrected as spirit beings because “flesh and blood” cannot exist in the spirit realm.
Because these “chosen ones” are now immortal, they have proven under test that they remained “faithful unto death” to receive “the crown of life”. But because these ones are “resurrected first” (only when Christ returned in his parousia) and because they are “kings and priests” (Revelation 20:6) over whom will they rule and for whom do they act as priests?