Reply #115: Frankly, this life-long Catholic is not a BIT threatened about the book

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OR the movie.

Perhaps you don't understand or fully appreciate the nature of the life of Christ, or why God decided to send His only begotten Son to Earth to live as One of us, be as one of us, and BECOME MAN.

Perhaps you're not thinking about what it is to be a man. Or a woman. Or, simply, a human. Humans do things like laugh, cry, eat, poop, sleep, maybe also snore, get nosebleeds and indigestion, wet their beds and diapers when they're little (or whatever type of "diaper" arrangement was used back in Jesus's day), and more. What was the point of God taking such a profound step as to realize His divinity in COMPLETELY HUMAN TERMS? So He'd be born into this life and this plane and NOT share in the human experience? What, was He a Bubble Boy? Did He live life not touching things? Was He a mere spirit - translucent, maybe? Was He really NOT supposed to live and be as One of us? Christ did nothing of the kind. We have evidence upon evidence of Him doing all sorts of basic human things: eating, walking, sleeping, bleeding, dying, wandering off from His mom in public when He was a kid, agonizing, getting ticked off, drinking - wines and probably also juices and milk as a baby, getting His feet dirty, all sorts of things. When He was a kid, He was a kid. I bet it meant He also fell down and scuffed His knees, maybe repeatedly. Probably knocked stuff over and ran into things. Vomited all over His mom - and foster dad, too. He probably loved fart jokes - show me a boy who doesn't. He was supposed to be A KID. As an adult, why is it inconceivable that He would live as an adult man would? That was the point. For Him to go to that extent to show love. To live as One of us.

It does not defile Him or lower Him in my eyes, nor does it somehow compromise His divinity. It gives me more, more varied, more unexpected ways to think about Him. It just makes Him that much more wonderful.