Having to learn things, while things are happening to us, this is how we have to live. We might think, as we go through early adult life, that learning is fun, and we will just acquire skills and experience by our innate human abilities. We might think we have brains so advanced that we can learn everything we need to live a decent life easily. It is anguishing to realise it gets tough to learn to live decently. Having a career, for example, does not come without difficult and painful experiences as we learn to be faithful in the work tasks entrusted to us, and in the kinds of undertakings necessary in making a decent, honest living. People trust us to keep going when it is unpleasant to do so, and even when it means suffering. This is not something we escape from by human abilities and awesomeness. A human is expected to endure. It is part of being a human, like a beast of burden has to endure too. Jesus went this way. Our beliefs taught us by our religious teachers might conflict with it, but it is true. Jesus had to live the same human life with learning experiences we have to endure. He got a chance to ask God to save him from it, but he found strength and resolve to undergo all the suffering God willed for him. On the cross he learned to obey God in extreme weakness and suffering of human experience. It was something he learned as he endured it. He did not come with obedience built in. He had to learn it, as he went along, and to keep learning it when suffering became extreme, until it killed him to obey. We are not alone in this path forward. Obeying and learning as we do it, we are not the only ones to do this as humans. He did it too. No. He is not different. He did not have some fully-God-fully-human nature to make him different. He is human even now resurrected. What he did is the same for us if we did it. Being the beloved Son of the Father did not deprive him of humanness that we have. He did not fail like many of us do, but his experience when obeying, learning to obey even throughout suffering, was the same as we get when we learn to obey, even through suffering. Beware lest the later concieved church doctrines and philosophies about Christ deny us knowledge of this. We need to know truth so we too can escape sin, in following him, believing in him.
