There were many things that Jesus did not suffer as a human being, he had parents who loved him(many do not) so he didn’t suffer child abuse, he didn’t have children, so he didn’t suffer the loss of a child nor watch it die from a decease, he didn’t suffer any of the handicaps that many suffer, he didn’t have a wife or spouse, so didn’t suffer the hurt a spouse can cause another, When he needed money for taxes he just had Peter catch a fish and used that money, no human father can do that. He didn’t suffer from blindness or lack of hearing. In reality he only suffered what he chose to suffer, so if the writers are correct he was not much like any human being. He had perfect parents so he didn’t suffer the fear many have when their parents quarrel.
No Jesus and Alcohol thread would be complete without this line from family guy
[QUOTE=Peter Griffin, after drinking “the blood of christ”]
Holy crap, that guy must’ve been wasted 24 hours a day
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Yes. It’s called “yeast.”
“Woods”?
“Bleshed [hic] are . . . bleshed are the poor . . . the poor in spirits, for I shall [hic] buy the next round!”
Then there was that time the Disciples swiped the party-amphora from the Dalet House . . .
There are some details which are debatable- yes, I’m sure Mary & Joseph were good parents, but perfect & non-quarrelling? He may not have had a wife & children (tho that’s not a certainty) but He still may have suffered unrequited love or a bad romance, & been distressed by the illness, loss, etc. of other children in His family. His fish-coin trick was not a common occurrence. And it’s a matter of Christian theology, based on the “He learned by suffering as a human” Scriptures, that everything He didn’t suffer in His daily life still got piled on Him at the Crucifixion, provoking the “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” freak-out.
Well, Joseph kept Mary around after she came home one night and said “Honey, I just got knocked up. By an angel from the Lord, I swear !”. He must have been a pretty damn Zen husband.
That or he was drunk enough to believe it 
The Simpsons had the right take on this:
I like to think the miracle at Cana (His first miracle, where He turned water into wine) happened like this: Jesus and his friends were kicking a ball around or something (remember, he was just a kid at the time), and his mother tells him to go to town and get more wine. He was all “Awww, Mom! Do I have to?” (think of Luke whining about power converters to get the right tone.) His mother tells Him not to argue, but go and get the wine. He asks where he should get it, and she says, “I don’t care where it comes from, just so long as we have it!” So he says, “OK, done.” and goes back to playing ball.
Personally, I’ve always heard the interpretation that the reason they ran out of wine was that Jesus and his teenage buddies all crashed the party.
I think the idea that Jesus himself never drank came from one source, applied two ways. The source is the Nazirite requirements, which say that, in order to be closer to God, you can’t drink. One of the ways is a mixup between Nazirite and Nazarene. The other way is the idea that Jesus was perfect, and thus would follow the commands God gave to the Nazirites who were supposed to be more perfect.
But to believe this, you also have to believe that Jesus didn’t drink the wine at the Last Supper. It doesn’t matter if it was alcoholic or not: Nazirites can’t even drink grape juice because it might have accidentally have fermented a bit.
It is not the same, He also didn’t have the things women have to suffer, and The phrase" My God, My God why have you forsaken me" could be translated to mean he expected the father to stop the process of pain. Even so, His physical suffering only lasted about 3 hours(less than most) and some people suffer all their lives, and many for many years. Look to people who have Lou Gerhigs desease,Muscular Dtsthrophy etc. and he could have stopped the pain at any time, and he chose the pain. That is a big difference.
Look at the children of some divorced parents and see the suffering the parents can inflict on their children because of their selfishness.
Plus he had no human male hormones and so most likely didn’t have a lot of human male problems!
THe 2 thieves suffered a lot longer, as the NT writer says that Jesus gave up the ghost earlier than most(If I remember correctly)!
What do ya mean, He had no human male hormones? Of course He did!
He may or may not have gotten drunk, but I am sure He sometimes had morning wood.
dodges lightning-bolt!
No, no one can use that as a sig line!
Pretty sure **monavis **was jokingly alluding to the fact that human males get their split XY sex chromosomes (the ones that regulate hormones) from mother and father respectively. Since angels aren’t gender differentiated and might not even have a sex chromosome at all, and Jesus was half-angel by birth, he couldn’t have had regular human male hormones, QED.
But Christ wasn’t conceived by sex with an angel. Christ was conceived by means of no sex at all. Oh, I’m sure if we break it down mechanically we’ll see that Yahweh either teleported in a sperm (maybe from Joseph), created on ex nihilo, or re-engineered one of Mary’s cells (probably an ovum) for the purpose, but angelic DNA is beside the point.
It just occurred to me that Yahweh may ave created an embryo ex-nihilo. If so, Christ might not have been genetically related to Mary at all.
Since he had no human father he did not have male hormones or Chromosones, His only human inheritence would have been from a human woman!
It couldn’t have come from Joseph, since God was the father, God is a spirit so that would mean Jesus was half spirit and half human. A spirit is invisible so nothing could show up from a spirit! God is said to have created humans form dirt, and they are remined about this at their funerals, “Remember man ,you are but dust and to dust you shall remain”
No dirt was involved with the conception of Jesus,just the Holy spirit was said to fly over Mary and then she conceived! Sort of how Isis flew over Osiris and conceived Horus?
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If the Da Vinci Code plot turned out to be true and there were descendants of Jesus living among us . . . there wouldn’t be anything special about them, would there? I mean, even if you accept Jesus was/is the Son of God and all that, the trinitarian Christology of the Nicene Creed says He had/has a dual nature – at once fully human and fully divine. So all the miracle-working stuff would come from the divine side of His nature . . . and would not be coded in His DNA (DNA being a, you know, an entirely human, or at least carbon-based-material-organism, thing) or pass to His progeny. Would it?
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If God can create fossils to fool the evolutionists, a special set of DNA would be a snap.
Regards,
Shodan
And no doubt Jesus could get drunk every day without being an alcoholic, or have man-sex on the lowdown without being gay . . .
Jesus was a top!