Yes, John 4:16-20.
Tiptup said:According to Christian orthodoxy, Jesus did not use any of his powers as God to make the moral work of his life on this earth any easier. If Jesus had done that then his life of moral perfection would have meant nothing as a sacrifice. Jesus did not use his power as God to make morality easy for himself. Every version of Christianity that I know of keeps Christ's perfect life as a sole work of his human nature (which would therefore be distinct from his divine nature).
Christ's perfect life is a model for us to strive for. However, knowing that we're all sinners and "all fall short of the glory of God", we can never attain perfection. That is why Christ's life was sacrificed once for all of us. By accepting him as our saviour, we can be allowed into Heaven, something none of us deserves.
Now, something else I just remembered that I think is really worth discussing is this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
I know it's US centric and I don't care. I don't expect it to be discussed in this thread because it's already veared to far off-topic. I heard about this story from a friend when we talked about wearing LEDs on a shirt. The summarized version is this: MIT student hangs a circuit board with LEDs and a battery on her sweatshirt. She goes to the airport to pick up her boyfriend. She walks up to the counter to ask a question, not even bothering to hid the LEDs (she saw no reason to hide it). A woman at the counter, who barely spoke english, starts to freak out. The student tries to explain it and then gives up and decides to walk out (the counter woman actually told her she had to leave). At that point, she's surrounded by police and they use a bomb detecting device to check the LEDs. It's reported all over that an MIT student played a hoax (totally false) and caused a bomb scare. The reality is that the stupid woman at the counter couldn't understand what it was and freaked out. From the news articles, it would appear that everything turned out ok. Well, it didn't. It took 10 months for the entire thing to be resolved. That's 10 months that this student had to wait in order to continue her school. Most of this wasn't reported, just that some student at MIT played a hoax at Logan airport (which is completely false).
So you want to talk about something worthwhile? Let's talk about the batshit crazy ass paranoia that goes on at our airports. Let's talk about the stupid ass security people that don't know shit about anything (I once had a guy ask me about a hard drive "What's this?", then he just accepted "It's a hard drive...for a computer" without further questions). Let's talk about the freaking morons that use the 20 million dollar x-ray machines to look at empty bags and then ask "Is your bag empty?" (happened to me at LAX). WTF?!
If we want to take this further, I would ask why anybody with a PDA/Smartphone is even allowed into airports. You might say "Well, everyone knows what those are". To that I would say "Everyone knows what they look like, which makes them even more dangerous." Terrorists have brought things through in shoes, liquids, and luggage. They haven't recently brought actual bombs that look like bombs. Our airport security needs to get a clue.