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Perfect dualism Dean
Like a hermaphrodite - fully both - good and evil, like Janus.
You are still blending the natures of Christ,
Dean. The result is mixing you up. The Divinity of Christ was in no way
tainted by his humanity. As God and man, Christ defeated sin in his
own flesh, rendering it powerless in his resurrection from the grave. In the
new birth we are born into his resurrection, new creatures; hence we are given
life from beyond the tomb, where sin, death, and the devil cannot reach us --
if, that is, we daily put to death that old man who still wants to
rear his head.
Dean, I say this with the utmost sincerity: You
really do need to let go of your alloy view of Jesus; it can only
confuse you.
Bill
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:05
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Was Jesus of
God's Nature?
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Sent: 1/31/2006 11:19:39 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Was Jesus of
God's Nature?
cd writes: So I ask you How is
one able to produce destruction for men while the other produces a
quickening spirit for men?
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a
living being." The last Adam became a life-giving
Spirit.
-- 1 Corinthians 15.45-47
The first Adam was made from dust and
received from God the breath of life. His mandate was one: "Be
fruitful and multiply." But rather than doing what he was told, Adam
chose instead to do the inexplicable. Adam's sin brought death not
only to himself but also to all of his descendants -- Jesus
included. What did the first Adam produce? He produced death.
The second Adam was born into the fall of
the first. But he was also God. In this one person of Christ God and man
came together and accomplished what man alone could not do: the undoing of
the first Adam. Throughout his life, Christ's response to the fall
was not to sin, not to do what Adam had done, but to do his Father's will.
Hence in his person, Christ reclaimed Adam's posterity (not to mention
Adam himself), defeating what had brought death to them all. Then Christ
paid the ultimate price: he died on their behalf. Ah, but because he had
defeated in his own flesh that which had condemned the flesh of Adam,
death had no power to hold him. Now in ascension the Second Adam
sends his spirit to give life to those who could only die without
him. Who is the Second Adam? He is the life-giving Spirit.
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cd:Right-Then how can can the Second Adam be
the same as the first? You guys are stating that Christ was no
different than Hitler but Hitler was the same as the first Adam "exactly
the same"-in the above you show the second Adam to be different.
This is our point.If Christ was the same as the first we are
still in our sins Bill.
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