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?
