Jesus Christ is truly man.
The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus Christ is truly and fully human. He was not merely God appearing to be a man, nor was His humanity somehow incomplete. Jesus experienced every aspect of human life except sin. He was born, grew, learned, worked, felt hunger and fatigue, experienced joy and sorrow, suffered, and died. Because He became truly man, He is able to represent humanity before the Father and fully share in our condition. His true humanity also reveals the dignity of human nature, since God Himself chose to assume it. By becoming man, Jesus entered human history and lived among us, showing us how to live in loving obedience to God. The Church insists upon Christs true humanity because our salvation depends upon it. As the early Church Fathers taught, what Christ did not assume could not be healed.
The Church confesses that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. The Son of God worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us in all things except sin.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God.
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