In consideration of Numbers 23:19, can God be a human? (Catholic perspective)
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It is very clear in Hosea, 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
God teaches that he is not a MAN unlike jesus christ who is a Man died in a cross.
John, 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
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Numbers 23:19 doesn't say Yahweh cannot become a human, only that he isn't like humans, who do lie or fail to keep promises. Yahweh is essentially saying he can be trusted. A Catholic perspective teaches that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, and that these two natures are in hypostatic union.
The sinful state would lead humans to sin, but Jesus' humanity can be thought of as Adam's before he disobeyed Yahweh. Thus, being the incarnation of the divine word, Jesus obeyed perfectly even up to his time of death.
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