JD writes:
Dean, do you accept a difference between what one is ,
ontologically speaking, and what one does?
I do. That "he was made to be like us in every respect" is
a statement of the essence of His being.
He can not possibly be same as us in the essence of
His being and wholly God at the same time.
If this were possible there would be no savior
needed because there would be no gulf between God and sin.
Can't have it both ways JD.
It has nothing to do with whether or not He committed sin or whether or
not He suffered. More than this, the Gk text does not
speak so much of his "being made" as it does of a sense of
obligation. Christ, according to the Gk text,
was OBLIGATED to be "like us in every respect." That He is the
Son of Man(kind) is born of obligation. The text is not saying that He
was made like us, but that He was obligated to be like us in
every respect !!
Malarkey; he volunteered to come and die for us and
God layed upon Him the iniquity of us all. This is how he knows
the feeling of our infirmities.
In this passage, we have the theology of the Son of Man rather than the
history of the Son of Man. That Christ is human is without
question and is accepted by many as a historical occurance. But this
is a secondary consideration in this Hebrews 2:17-18 text.
That His humanity is born of necessity, of obligation ,
is a theological consideration -- only known to us through
revelation.
If He was obligated to be like us in all respects, I am
equally obligated to believe such.... and so John the Apostle makes it
obligatory for us to admit that Jesus Christ came in the flesh !!
jd
John the apostle was dealing with a gnostic problem
JD. You need to study the time and culture these things were written
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