Not exact matches
perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and
human flesh; equal to the Father with
respect to His divinity, less than the Father with
respect to His humanity.
The Christ of the Gospels, and the Christ of the Church's faith, is One who is indeed truly
human, in every
respect and without equivocation; but he is also One who is truly divine — pictured first as Messiah, sent from God and coming again from God with power and great glory; pictured soon as the Word of God, as God Himself, made
flesh and dwelling amongst us.
Of course none of us can know what Jesus was really like in the
flesh because we weren't there, but since we know that Jesus was both fully God and fully man, he must have been
human in every
respect.
Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» — the coming in
human flesh of Himself through the «Word,» the self - expression of Himself in the creation of the cosmos — He was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of His «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what His Spirit,
respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.
Humans are different from other primates with
respect to
flesh eating in two
respects.