Jesus' Taste of Humanity

Holy Week Tuesday Day 3 of Yancey’s contemplation – 

Yancey writes regarding Jesus’ taste of humanity: “God’s character did not permit the option of simply declaring about this defective planet, ‘It doesn’t matter.’  God’s Son had to encounter evil personally in a way that perfect deity had never before encountered evil.  He had to forgive sin by taking on our sin.  He had to defeat death by dying.  He had to learn sympathy for human beings by becoming one.  The author of Hebrews reports that Jesus became a ‘sympathetic’ advocate for us…Because of the Incarnation, Hebrews implies, God hears our prayers in a new way, having lived here and having prayed as a weak and vulnerable being.”