I wrote
> Instead humanity was purified in relationship
with God in Christ's person throughout his life, the tyrants being defeating all along the way, and the
humanity "becoming perfected" in the process of learning obedience to God
through the things he suffered.
jt: How do we learn
obedience by what HE suffered? If this is so then why do we have to
learn all over again when God prunes us personally?
For the limited sake of this discussion I
should have been more specific and just said that "Instead his humanity
was purified in relationship with his divinity in
Christ's person throughout his life, the tyrants being defeated all along the
way, and the his humanity 'becoming perfected' in the process of
learning obedience to God through the things he suffered." That would have
been easier for you to understand.
Nevertheless, in that
he is go'el, when he defeated sin, death, and the
devil in his humanity in resurrection, he defeated it in all
humanity. The only way now for those things to destroy us, in that his
victorious resurrection will not be ours to share, would be to reject him as
our Lord and Savior. If we do that, our names will be blotted out from the
Lambs book of life and in resurrection we will experience, not eternal
life, but the second death, for which their is no salvation.
Bill
jt: If I remember correctly
Bill the go'el concept relates to Ruth and Boaz and this is important to
you. But it was not in his humanity that Jesus defeated sin, death, and
the devil. Yes he did have victory over them in His own life and
this is an example to us - But it is the cross that is the power of God
and from the cross we receive power to overcome these things in our own
lives. When he ascended he gave gifts to men and it
is when we
receive Him that we receive the POWER TO BECOME sons of God. (John
1:12)
Is this different from what
you are saying above?
