Why do they say Jesus was a real human being?

Answer 1

In this way, Jesus can act as a liaison between his father (God) and the non-divine people of the Earth. This is the reason so many prayers include the phrase "through Christ", as many believe that Jesus Christ appeals to his father on our behalf, rather than having us appeal (pray) to him directly.

AnswerActually, there is a more fundamental reason that that above. The theologian Jurgen Moltmann suggests that God can only be a God of real love if he understands just what it is like to be human.

This means that Jesus, who claimed to be God incarnate (God in human form) - and backed up his claims by his miracles - hadto be fully human, albeit a perfect human. He had to feel hunger, thirst, temptation, disappointmeny, love, joy, happiness, sadness and suffering. For without human emotion and suffering, God could never be part of our own suffering but instead be an aloof 'figure in the sky' rather than someone who is there in the thick of things when we suffer.

Detailed Answer:

Actually, contrary to the first answer, Christians do pray directly to God, and Jesus taught them how to do so in the sermon on the mount where he instructed them in the Lord's Prayer. "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." (Mathew 6:6) "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name…." (Mathew 6:9)

The reason Christians say "through Christ" is not that we can not speak or pray directly to God the Father, but it is only through Christ that we shall have salvation, and enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Why Jesus had to be human:

1. The first reason that Jesus has to be known to have been human is to fulfill prophecy. The prophecy of the coming of Christ was that the messiah would be human, born of the flesh, and die for the remission of man's sins. If Jesus of Nazareth did not fulfill the prophecy in every way, then his followers could not claim him to be the Christ. Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mathew 5:17,18)

According to the Prophet Isaiah:

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

As described by the Gospel according to John:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1). And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:14-18)

2 The second reason, as mentioned in the second answer above, Jesus had to take on the sins of the world. This meant that he had to experience life as a human, experience the emotions, be rejected, tormented, and tempted, yet remain innocent and righteous. Jesus serves as an inspiration by his own actions as a flesh and blood human, and teaches this when he said "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)

3. The third reason was that through the resurrection of Jesus, he proved that he had power over death and Satan, and that all who believe in Jesus as the Messiah shall too have power over death and the Devil, and have everlasting life. Perhaps the main purpose for Jesus to come to Earth in human form was to be put to death, thereby becoming the "sacrificial lamb" whose innocent life was given up for man's sins. Jesus had to be human to show that he could die, and then be raised from the dead to reign in Heaven at the right hand of the Father.

"And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ." (Acts 17:2,3)

Therefore, the witnessing of Jesus being crucified unto death, buried, and risen again from the dead, gave reason to believe in Jesus as the Christ.

"And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." (John 20 30:31)

Answer 2

Jesus was a real human being because he was born from Mary and well God but some people say that God was Jesus but in a human form