moorea944
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Let's start with Heb 4v15 "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
He had human nature; he shared every one of our sinful tendencies (Heb. 4:15), yet he overcame them by his commitment to God's ways and seeking His help to overcome sin. This God willingly gave, to the extent that "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself" through His very own Son (2 Cor. 5:19). God was working thru His son. The fact that Christ had to plead with God to save him from death rules out any possibility of him being God in person. After Christ's resurrection, death had "no more dominion over him" (Rom. 6:9), implying that beforehand....... it did.
He had to be Son of man in order to inherit the consequences of Adam's transgressions, a weak and mortal nature "prone to sin", so that he might condemn sin. He had to be tempted in all points like us and yet be sinless in order to be the Saviour. Sin could only be condemned by one possessing the same flesh with its tendency to sin. He put to death sin in the flesh on the cross. The perfect sacrific.
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also - himself - likewise - took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" What has the power of death? It is sin. For the wages of sin is death. Jesus put to death a sin nature and is now glorified.
Heb 5v8 "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him," God suffers????? No, but a man does.
That's why he is a perfect representive for us. He knows what we go thru in our lives. He went thru temptations just like us. If he was God, what would the point of that be?
If he was God, that Atonement would go right out the window. Wouldnt even make sense.
He had human nature; he shared every one of our sinful tendencies (Heb. 4:15), yet he overcame them by his commitment to God's ways and seeking His help to overcome sin. This God willingly gave, to the extent that "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself" through His very own Son (2 Cor. 5:19). God was working thru His son. The fact that Christ had to plead with God to save him from death rules out any possibility of him being God in person. After Christ's resurrection, death had "no more dominion over him" (Rom. 6:9), implying that beforehand....... it did.
He had to be Son of man in order to inherit the consequences of Adam's transgressions, a weak and mortal nature "prone to sin", so that he might condemn sin. He had to be tempted in all points like us and yet be sinless in order to be the Saviour. Sin could only be condemned by one possessing the same flesh with its tendency to sin. He put to death sin in the flesh on the cross. The perfect sacrific.
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also - himself - likewise - took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" What has the power of death? It is sin. For the wages of sin is death. Jesus put to death a sin nature and is now glorified.
Heb 5v8 "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him," God suffers????? No, but a man does.
That's why he is a perfect representive for us. He knows what we go thru in our lives. He went thru temptations just like us. If he was God, what would the point of that be?
If he was God, that Atonement would go right out the window. Wouldnt even make sense.