Jesus’ Loyalty to God
All Christians promote and accept the value of obeying God, so Jesus, as his son, is thus held at an even higher standard. Jesus demonstrates his loyalty to God in several ways. Through later verses in his Gospel, the definition of “Son of God” outlines how “Luke understands Jesus’ identity as Son of God in terms of messianic kingship, complete obedience to God’s will, and divine agency.” Luke believed it was necessary to show Jesus fully obeying God. Some of Jesus’ obedience to God is from a human child’s perspective. As a child raised and trained in the Jewish tradition, Luke’s Jesus would have understood the value of the temple, the priests, and Jewish celebrations. Evidence of Jesus’ Jewish education is demonstrated …show more content…
According to the definition of “Son of God,” “There is widespread scholarly agreement that Jesus addressed God as ‘Father’” and “evidence strongly suggests that ‘Father’ was the most frequent way in which Jesus directly addressed God.” Because Jesus fully understood who God was in his life, he understood how he needed to behave. Tiede argues that Luke’s use of “I must” (or “it is necessary”) “indicates that Jesus is speaking of divine will, of necessity which arises from obedience to his heavenly Father.” All of Jesus’ actions were based on the need to obey …show more content…
Luke 2:52 brings all of these ideas together. Jesus gained wisdom (got more divine), aged in years (grew as a human), increased in divine favor (he continued his loyalty to God), and increased in human favor (he continued to be recognized for his humanness, likely with his parents as well) following this story. Luke’s portrayal of Jesus as both human and divine is probable and possible because of standard Greco-Roman biographies, which frequently used one story of human parents and one story of divine parents to address the hero’s origin. Luke creates a hero character in Jesus that readers can both relate to, because he is human, and admire and worship, because he is
All Christians promote and accept the value of obeying God, so Jesus, as his son, is thus held at an even higher standard. Jesus demonstrates his loyalty to God in several ways. Through later verses in his Gospel, the definition of “Son of God” outlines how “Luke understands Jesus’ identity as Son of God in terms of messianic kingship, complete obedience to God’s will, and divine agency.” Luke believed it was necessary to show Jesus fully obeying God. Some of Jesus’ obedience to God is from a human child’s perspective. As a child raised and trained in the Jewish tradition, Luke’s Jesus would have understood the value of the temple, the priests, and Jewish celebrations. Evidence of Jesus’ Jewish education is demonstrated …show more content…
According to the definition of “Son of God,” “There is widespread scholarly agreement that Jesus addressed God as ‘Father’” and “evidence strongly suggests that ‘Father’ was the most frequent way in which Jesus directly addressed God.” Because Jesus fully understood who God was in his life, he understood how he needed to behave. Tiede argues that Luke’s use of “I must” (or “it is necessary”) “indicates that Jesus is speaking of divine will, of necessity which arises from obedience to his heavenly Father.” All of Jesus’ actions were based on the need to obey …show more content…
Luke 2:52 brings all of these ideas together. Jesus gained wisdom (got more divine), aged in years (grew as a human), increased in divine favor (he continued his loyalty to God), and increased in human favor (he continued to be recognized for his humanness, likely with his parents as well) following this story. Luke’s portrayal of Jesus as both human and divine is probable and possible because of standard Greco-Roman biographies, which frequently used one story of human parents and one story of divine parents to address the hero’s origin. Luke creates a hero character in Jesus that readers can both relate to, because he is human, and admire and worship, because he is