10-03-2007, 02:39 PM
Hello Wel_mel_2, sorry for the late response. My overall reply to your analysis of the H2O analogy is that Jesus is both human and divine.
1. On your first point: Although the Father and the Holy Spirit are made of spirit, they take on different forms of a spirit, just as Jesus took on the form of a human, made of flesh and bone. However, he also has a divine nature, seen in his ability to heal the sick, forgive sins, and rise form the dead, thus he shares the common divine nature that all three persons of the Trinity possess, making him God.
2. On your second point: Jesus also shares human habits. He chose to eat to survive, for if he did not eat how could we claim that he was a man. In order to show his third person he had to show his human nature and assimilate with humans, and did so by eating earthly food in order to survive. Nevertheless, while he did eat food, he did rise from the dead, an action only God can perform, showing his divine common quality with God the father and Holy Spirit.
3. On you third point: Firstly, Jesus is not a component of water, he is a form H2O (water) can take.
When Jesus died both his body and spirit were still existent, his body had merely performed a human function, showing his human nature, that he died. However, the flesh and bones were still existent, and so was his spirit and divine nature. As seen in the Apostles Creed which states after he died that “He descended into hell”. The existance of his divine nature is still evident as he rose from the dead. So in order to show that Jesus had been removed and hence no more God, you must show that both his human and divine nature ceased to exist.