I was talking to a friend today about Jesus. She could not believe that Jesus was perfectly sinless. "He was a man, so of course he wasn't perfect," she declared.
This is just common sense. People are sinful. Nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes. I invited my friend to acknowledge the mystery of the person of Jesus. It is the most bizarre thing to claim that any person was ever perfect.
But orthodox Christian faith has always declared that Jesus was indeed fully human and completely sinless. We can't wrap our minds around that. Some have worked and worked to explain it. But maybe God doesn't want us to explain it. Maybe God wants us to sit in the mystery of it, and ponder it. Here we have two different qualities that cannot both be true. And yet they are.
Life is full of so many mysteries. Pondering them may help us cope with life.
