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How did he avoid this while being around lepers and dead bodies?
How did he avoid this while being around lepers and dead bodies?
I understand your point as in "Mat 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed"
Here we see rather then Christ becoming unclean the leper became cleansed, Christ did not catch the leprosy. I believe this is similar to him healing on the Sabbath and yet he did not violate the Sabbath because "he is the Lord of the Sabbath"
I think in the case of ceremonial cleanness/uncleanness His Deity trumps his Humanity. I could be a little off here maybe someone else more knowledgeable can clarify.
How did he avoid this while being around lepers and dead bodies?
I understand your point as in "Mat 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed"
Here we see rather then Christ becoming unclean the leper became cleansed, Christ did not catch the leprosy. I believe this is similar to him healing on the Sabbath and yet he did not violate the Sabbath because "he is the Lord of the Sabbath"
I think in the case of ceremonial cleanness/uncleanness His Deity trumps his Humanity. I could be a little off here maybe someone else more knowledgeable can clarify.
I think you may be right with respect to Christ being immune from ceremonial uncleanness (I'd be interested in hearing others' thoughts), but as regards the Sabbath, Jesus never broke this moral law, but he had the correct interpretation of it, unlike the Pharisees et al. who had added their own rules to it.
Being ceremonially unclean unless deliberately followed wasn't a moral issue. E.g. A justified and morally upright lady could be - inadevertently - ceremonially unclean during her time of the month. On the other hand, her husband, deliberately having relations with her at this time and becoming unclean was morally culpable.