Jesus: God and Man

I really enjoyed bible study last night. Pete posed the question of why is it important for Jesus to have been both completely God, and completely human. It was great to really think hard about this. Here are some of the points we came up with--

Jesus had to be completely God--
-to be a sufficient sacrifice to take the place of the entire human race
-to be able to come back from the dead
-otherwise a third party apart from God would be being unjustly punished
-for God to be fully revealed to us
-otherwise we would be bringing glory and honour to humanity, not God
-to bring us into relationship with the Trinity.

Jesus had to be completely man--
-to experience man's struggles, and yet still triumph
-to be able to die
-to be cut off from God at the crucifixion
-to be a mediator for man to God
-to be a model of obedience