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To: DaveMSmith
The Lord put off these hereditary evils from her within himself all his natural life.

Christ had evils within himself?

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217 posted on 12/11/2006 12:22:28 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8

That's the whole point! If Christ did NOT have human nature (desire, temptation, the ability to do evil) then what was the POINT of sending Him here in the first place? His dying for us to take our sins would not mean anything because then He was never truley us.


218 posted on 12/11/2006 12:23:44 PM PST by EarthBound (Ex Deo, gratia. Ex astris, scientia)
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To: adiaireton8

The Lord suffered temptations. These were not of His own, but of the mother. His victory over these evils led to His Glorification and subjugation of the hells.


328 posted on 12/11/2006 2:06:51 PM PST by DaveMSmith ("Heaven is the only basis for our continued existence".)
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To: adiaireton8; DaveMSmith

"Christ had evils within himself?"

No, that's why the seed that fertilized the egg in Mary was of the Holy Spirit, not sinful man. Mary had a sin nature because she was conceived by the joinder of her mother and sinful father.

Rom. 5:12, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned"

Rom. 5:17-19, "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."


394 posted on 12/11/2006 6:17:42 PM PST by blue-duncan
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