We should be well equipped with the church history and early church fathers, theologians and apologists to know that they struggled hard and played great battles against heresies 😊. The attack was either on Jesus' divinity or his humanity. And the confusion was merely because of his unusual nature which we call hypostatic union.
In Christological theology, both of his nature have essential roles to bring about salvation to humankind. Yes, God's dying is incompatible with His eternal nature. Yes, God isn't a man that he needs sleep, rest and gets hungry. But it was a time in human history in which God himself narrowed down to participate in those human weaknesses. The creator sovereign God limited himself to a tiny man on the earth. The focus is how God becomes a human to rescue humanity.
It is not a concern whether Jesus was God on the earth or not. The mainline concern was Jesus was the perfect man who ever have lived amongst humanity accepting God's authority and rule in own's life. He was a pinnacle of humanity which demonstrated what human meant to be look like. Paul sees him as the successful Adam who began a new timeline or new generation of humanity, a new creation. But only God could be such a human because only He knows how humanity should be.
Hence, Jesus as walking God on earth is obviously abstract concept to our finite mind but it is a news of great pleasure and joy that God himself came down to rescue us and to be with us.
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