![]() ![]() This is exactly what Jesus meant when he said: He is both our example and our substitute, and as our example, He showed us how to walk in the supernatural. In the Incarnation, He took on everything but our sin, and that He took on at the cross. ![]() Either this is true or the humanity of Jesus was somehow different from our humanity. If Jesus remained human during the miraculous, then there is a way for other humans to do the miraculous. If only God can do miracles, Jesus would have had to momentarily transcend His humanity to accomplish them, and the above verse would not be true. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” John 5:19 He was still fully God, but now He was also fully man. He ministered by the working of the Holy Spirit (Philippians 2:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). The scriptures are clear that He, thus acting as a man, could do no miracles. How then did Jesus accomplish His miracles in the Gospels? Yes, Jesus was and is God, but it is clear from scripture that when He was born of a virgin (in His Incarnation) He emptied Himself of His inherent divine outward powers, and surrendered His divine will to that of the Father. ![]() We all know that only God can do miracles. ![]()
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