If Jesus was God, how could he die?
If Jesus was God, why didn’t he know when he would come again?
If Jesus was God, why did he need the Holy Spirit to descend on him at baptism?
There exists an infinite number of questions of this form: If Jesus was God, why/how …?
All of them could be answered by saying that in addition to Jesus was God, he was also a human when he was born from Mary.
Philippians 2:
The devil tried a similar trick in Mat 4:5b: “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down." Jesus was the Son of God. Throwing himself down was no proof that he was the Son of God.
Conversely, if Jesus was a man, how/why …?
Now, we need to remind ourselves that he was God too.
This whole issue is a divine personal mystery beyond First-Order Logical explanation.
If Jesus was God, why didn’t he know when he would come again?
If Jesus was God, why did he need the Holy Spirit to descend on him at baptism?
There exists an infinite number of questions of this form: If Jesus was God, why/how …?
All of them could be answered by saying that in addition to Jesus was God, he was also a human when he was born from Mary.
Philippians 2:
Colossians 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
If Jesus was fully God, how could he have emptied himself?9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form
The devil tried a similar trick in Mat 4:5b: “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down." Jesus was the Son of God. Throwing himself down was no proof that he was the Son of God.
Conversely, if Jesus was a man, how/why …?
Now, we need to remind ourselves that he was God too.
This whole issue is a divine personal mystery beyond First-Order Logical explanation.