One of the mysteries of the faith is the incarnation of Jesus, fully God and fully human. There is much theology wrapped around this dogma, but as a computer systems programmer, the concept is not really all that complicated: God logged on without root authority.

Jesus is a userid without root privileges, just like the ones the rest of us get. The person using that ID is God, but God doesn't have all his powers when logged on as Jesus. His personality is the same, but what He can do is limited. Limiting God is not a problem, because God is not generally limited, He is only limited because of His choice to login as Jesus. It seems that Jesus knew root's password and did on occasion su to root, notably on the mountain during the event known as the transfiguration. But on a normal day, Jesus was logged on using his own ID.

A lot of difficult questions that always arise about Jesus are simple to explain using this model. Since he was God, Jesus knew the system a lot better than the rest of us -- in fact, that is why he logged on in the first place, to show us how the system was designed to be used. His ID had no special permissions; anything he did is available to the general user. It's just that he was well aware of each tool and its intended function. You can find a torque wrench on the ground and use it for a hammer, and it will probably drive your nails into a board. But that doesn't mean that you're not destroying the wrench or that you're making the best use of the tool God gave you.