cd: Jd would you say Christ was the same as common
man?
It's Bill, but I would say that Christ's human
nature was the same as common man -- or statements like
"he learned obedience from the things he
suffered" would be meaningless, or at least irrelevant to us in our
state.
What things do you know that He
suffered that are relevant to our state Bill? Do you
know that he
was ever sick or infirm because of
generational curses? Oppressed by demons. Depressed?
It was his divine nature that was great, Dean,
and in that he was unlike us, as we do not have a divine nature,
Anyone who has been born of the
Spirit is well on the road to becoming a partaker of the divine
nature Bill see 2 Pet 1:14, 2 Cor
3:18, Heb 12:10.
but at no time did his divinity overwhelm his
humanity; instead it came alongside and worked in unison with his
human nature, producing obedience rather than
sin. Bill
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Sent: 1/16/2006 7:34:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Jesus ,
neither God nor Man
Luke writes that Jesus was born of the fruit of David's
genitals (Act 2.30): hence he was not some kind of new humanity,
freshly brewed with new material, unrelated to fallen humankind;
No, he is human like David was human, born on our side of the
fall.
And to the naysayers Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I
AM"; hence Jesus pre-dated even Abraham, David' predecessor. But it was
not his humanity which pre-dated David; it was his divinity. And
notice: he did not say that his Father was the I AM, and that he was
copying him. No, Jesus said that he (and this before his
glorification) is I AM; that is, Yahweh, the LORD who
covenants with Abraham.
Jesus is FULLY GOD and fully man, two realities in
one person, united -- but make him anything less than
God or anything more than man and you are courting a demon,
who is powerless to save you.
Bill
cd: Jd would you say Christ was the same as
common man?
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