Well, I can come up with a fancy Theological term and call it heresy if folks do not believe that Jesus is 100% God and His body was just an empty shell or temple. But the difference here is that I know that I would be right in saying so because I have Scripture backing up what I am actually saying. How so?
Well, just find me one verse.
Just one verse that says that Jesus has a human soul or a verse that strongly suggests that.
You won't find one.
While this describes the physical aspect of Christ's human nature, the above verses do not describe that He had a created human soul (that He possessed or merged with).
Matthew 26:38 (ESV) says,
"Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death;
remain here, and watch with me.”
Nothing is stated here in this above verse that suggests that Jesus has a human soul. This verse can also be equally true if Christ's soul was 100% divine (of which it was). Why?
First, God can be sorrowful living in a body unto death. There is no conflict with making such a statement.
Second, Hebrews 7 says,
"For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" (Hebrews 7:26).
If Jesus had a human soul, He would not be made higher than the heavens and holy and separate from sinners. He would not be harmless as Hebrews 7:26 says. For if lust ruled in his human soul or nature, then He would not be harmless but He could be potentially violent like every other man. But Jesus was holy and undefiled and separate from sinners. Why? Because He is God 100% on the inside. The body was just an empty shell.
Luke 23:46 says,
"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the spirit."
Again, this verse above here is not saying Jesus has a human soul.
Jesus was limited in knowledge because He suppressed His Omniscience.
Jesus also saying that He commends His spirit to the Father and then He gave up His spirit is the very essence of who the Word (the Logos) is. While the text does not specifically say here, we can safely come to the conclusion that Jesus's reference to His spirit is a reference to Him being the second person of the Godhead or the Trinity. For God is spirit. Did Jesus have two spirits? One God and one that was human? No. Did Jesus have a half a spirit that was half deity and half human (created)? No. Nothing in Scripture suggests such a thing.
Acts of the Apostles 2:31 says,
"He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption."
Okay, you may not realize this or not, but Scripture says God has a soul.
- Leviticus 26:11
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Isaiah 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
- Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
- Matthew 12:18
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
- Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
This means that the Word (the Logos) second person of the Godhead or the Trinity was in the realm of the dead within the heart of the Earth while His physical body (an empty shell) was in the tomb. So again, this verse does not say or suggest Jesus had a human soul. In order for there to be a verse that says this, we would need a verse to say something like:
"And the Word was made into a new living soul and he was made flesh."
But Scripture does not say anything like that.
This is an outward thing. This is not talking about how He had a human soul.
Yes. This is true. Jesus suppressed His divine attribute of Omniscience. This was so that He could be a like figure (or a parallel) of Adam. For Adam was also limited in knowledge before the Fall. Jesus was to be the second Adam (so as to be our substitute and restore us back to a new Garden Paradise). While Jesus did operate by the Spirit and by the power of God the Father, Jesus also had power as God on His own (including knowing many things that no man could possibly know).
Jesus had power as God (During His Earthly ministry):
#1. Jesus said He has power to raise the dead to life just as the Father had power to raise the dead (John 5:21).
#2. Hebrews 1:3 talks about how Christ held all things together by the word of His power when He purged us of our sins.
#3. Jesus said, He would raise up this Temple (His body) three days later (John 2:19).
#4. Jesus had the power to forgive sins and give eternal life (Mark 2:7) (Luke 7:44-50) (John 14:6).
#5 Jesus had power to take away the sins of the entire world (John 1:29).
#6. Jesus Christ said wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them (Matthew 18:20). This was said to the people he was around and not to just us today.
#7. Jesus knew men's thoughts (Matthew 9:4) (Matthew 12:25) (Mark 2:8) (Luke 5:22) (Luke 6:8) (Luke 9:47) (Luke 24:38).
#8. Jesus knew about the lives of others (John 2:24) (John 4:17-18) (John 4:29) (John 6:64).
Again, we do not know the effect of how God would experience things through a human body. He could very well cry through a human body or it could simply be that being limited in knowledge to some degree was able to make Him cry like us. So this is not hard concrete proof that Jesus had a human soul. In fact, I would venture to say that He did not have one because Scripture says this about Jesus.
Micah 5:2 says,
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
So if Jesus has a human soul that was created during the Incarnation, then how exactly can Micah 5:2 say that His goings forth have been from everlasting? Yeah, it just doesn't add up or make any sense.
These are all describing physical traits of a physical human body and not a human soul.
Jesus was a man because He has a physical flesh and blood body. As for being sorrowful: Well, God can be sorrowful. So I do not see how this is saying or suggesting that He has a human soul.
Okay. The resurrection is an act of God and not a human act. So I am not sure why this author made this point in reference to the humanity of Christ.
Okay. Very strange here. These verses do not say what the author says it does here.
Okay. This proves that Jesus is God and not human. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If Jesus was human as a part of His soul, He would be flawed like every other man.
Okay. This is just talking about the physical body again. This is not proof that He had a human soul.
The key to understanding here is 1 John 4:3. Jesus was manifested in the flesh. Jesus has always existed as the second person of the Godhead.
1 Timothy 3:16 says,
"God was manifest in the flesh,"
1 Timothy 3:16 does not say that God merged with a human soul along with being manifest in the flesh. God could not manifest fully in the flesh if God's eternal soul merged with a created human soul. He would no longer be God fully at 100% capacity if such were the case.