[throwback]

I'm saying Jesus was God, and as such he did many things that the greatest human teacher or doctor could not do. In fact based on what I read, He did the exact opposite of what you would think he did. He did not go to the best schools and acquire prestige and stature in the country in the predictable human way. From what I read, his ministry was conducted mostly outside the human system. The human way to influence people is to rise up ever higher in the food chain until everyone knows you and you gain control of the usual levers of power. He came at the world from the level of the individual and never rose to power. It's what gives Him authenticity because it's so un-human. It's why I don't believe this new truth. It makes him too human.

[Timotheous]

Sure, Jesus ‘did many things that the greatest human teacher or doctor could not do.’ But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t also the ‘greatest human teacher or doctor’ as well. The fact is a Sanhedrin government member addresses Jesus as Rabbi + Doctor. (John 3:2). This is early in Jesus’ public ministry. Nicodemus would not have given those titles to an uneducated itinerant. If Jesus was indeed a great Rabbi and Doctor as a human (rather than an uneducated person) it gives his rejection by the Jewish authorities (which is what Isaiah is prophesying) even greater significance. It would be logical for the teachers at the Temple who recognised Jesus’ brilliance to recruit him. If you read the Mishnah it taught that Rabbis could go public age 30. Is that a coincidence? Jesus was fully human as well as fully God. Thanks for the debate.