So UN-Godlike...

I told Shorty several years ago that it is my opinion that the BEST movies are adapted from books! (Not all books are translated well, but when they ARE, the movies are awesome!) And it is my preference to read the book version FIRST, and then watch the movie. So I checked out Life of Pi when we went to the library a few weeks ago. The story is fascinating so far, and some of the observations he makes are bulls-eye accurate. I was fascinated when I reached the point in the story where he shares his introduction to the Christian faith. Here's an excerpt of his thoughts about the God-man, Jesus Christ, as compared to the Hindu gods he was familiar with.

"Even Rama, that most human of avatars, who had to be re minded of his divinity when he grew long-faced over the struggle to get Sita, his wife, back from Ravana, evil king of Lanka, was no slouch. No spindly cross would have kept him down. When push came to shove, he transcended his limited human frame with strength no man could have and weapons no man could handle.

That is God as God should be. With shine and power and might. Such as can rescue and save and put down evil.

This Son, on the other hand, who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is sad, who is anxious, who is heckled and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect Him-- what kind of a god is that? It's a god on too human a scale, that's what..."

But the distinctly Christian perspective says that His "humanness" is what makes him so compelling, and is in fact necessary for Him to be an acceptable sacrifice.

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:14-16

However, being fully human was not sufficient, He also had to be fully God to satisfy the infinite wrath of God.

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19-20

And because He WAS an acceptable sacrifice, He conquered our greatest enemies-- sin and death-- for us!

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-4

But without the work of the Holy Spirit, we remain blind to the wisdom of God.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:21-25