Why did Jesus go into the desert to fast? Certainly not to get closer to God, for he is God, no?
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Why Did Jesus Fast?
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A really good question; one to make theologians nutty. I recall an RCIA class when one of the leaders suggested that, since Jesus was God, he did not "have" to pray. Jesus was a man and became One with His Father on the cross. While on earth, Jesus, the man, taught by example and was subject to the same spiritual rules as the rest of humanity. Because He was who He was, I personally believe he needed a lot of prayer in order to fulfill his mission. You can see this theory being confirmed in the Garden of Gethsemane. God, of course, could have conferred the grace to eliminate prayer and fasting but by doing so He would have broken the rules He Himself wrote. Thank God that God plays by the rules (as did his Divine Son).
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so your saying he was totaly human on earth and say The Father or The Holy Spirit gave him to "power" to do the miracles and so forth on earth. and that it wasnt till he was crucifed he again became God???
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I wonder if theological disputations of this nature are truly edifying. Anyway, power to perform miracles comes from the Holy Spirit. The Crede states that Jesus was "True God and True Man." I suppose one could surmise that he ceased to be "true man" after he died a human death and became "One with the Father." As a human, he certainly shared our spiritual need to pray and fast or he would neither have prayed nor fasted.
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