It is one thing to learn to obey God when all is well. The challenge for a human is to learn obedience in times of suffering. On the cross Jesus Christ, the human, had a tough time obeying the Father, but he persisted in doing so. He did not shout out that because God is his Father, God must save him from suffering. His cries of anguish were all about maintaining his obedience to his heavenly Father, his God, even to the bitter end, within that suffering. This required that he truly be human, like us, so that his example is truly relevant to us, and his death could merit the turning away of the Father’s wrath from us, so Jesus could mediate the Father’s provision to us, and intercede for our suffering humanity back to the Father, so the Father would pity us in our own need to obey Him through times of suffering in the face of death. The kind of human God concept taught by most of Christianity falls short of he truth that Jesus is human just as we are human. We can all be Godlike, and be part of God’s work, if we endure, but we are human all the same. This is what Jesus took for us. He is human still, although now immortal by the resurrection: It is a resurrection he promised those who truly believe him and follow him.
