When you pull weeds, do you need to pull them out roots and all?Dont know but what does the Word say about Christ, does it not say that there was no sin in Him? Let me ask you do you have to experience a problem to help someone or can you help beacause you know how to?
Of course But I will stand that there was no sin in Him according to the Word, or is that not what it saysWhen you pull weeds, do you need to pull them out roots and all?
I guess I need to understand if you believe that there is original sin is in us today. If so, how was Yeshua exempt from having original sin in Him?Of course But I will stand that there was no sin in Him according to the Word, or is that not what it says
No. Scripture specifically states that He had no sin, so.... well..... IMO..... He had no sin.If all of humanity have original sin in us, then did Yeshua, in taking on our flesh, also have original sin?
If they are going with Mary as sinless too in order for Yeshua's flesh to be without original sin, how do they explain her family tree which is full of sinners. How do they explain how sinless beings escaped from the garden of eden to propagate for all these centuries undetected?No. Scripture specifically states that He had no sin, so.... well..... IMO..... He had no sin.
There are two THEORIES (because Scripture does not say), two major THEORIES about why Jesus did not have original sin.
1) What I was taught as a Roman Catholic is that both of His parents had no sin - thus He could not have "inherited" it (I got the impression the RCC believes sin is in our DNA). Mary was born without sin and thus had no sin (yet she sinned, the RCC says..... go figure, never made any sense to me). Of course, the main problem with this THEORY is that it just bumps the question back a generation.... the question I had (even when I was like 9 years old!) is: if Jesus had to have two sinless parents to be sinless, then obviously Mary had to have two sinless parents to be sinless... and if you trace that back, it means NO ONE has sin (and the Bible lies - as does the morning newspaper).
2) Jesus is sinless by virtue of His divine nature. In the "Communication of Attributes," the Divinity of Jesus "communicates" with the humanity of Jesus - divine attributes being embraced by the human nature. This is why He could do miracles, how He knew stuff, why He could seem to walk through walls, why He could die for us and rise from the dead. His sinless divinity "communicated" that attribute to His humanity so that in both natures, he is sinless. I like this, but it is THEORY; as far as I know, no denomination teaches this as fact.
It is true that Jesus "took on" OUR sinfulness on the Cross.... but He did not take on our nature. He died for OUR sins - not His own. Obviously, there's MYSTERY here, too - how He "took on" something without in any sense BEING such.
Pax Christi
- Josiah
If they are going with Mary as sinless too in order for Yeshua's flesh to be without original sin, how do they explain her family tree which is full of sinners. How do they explain how sinless beings escaped from the garden of eden to propagate for all these centuries undetected?
Josiah said:There are two THEORIES (because Scripture does not say), two major THEORIES about why Jesus did not have original sin.
1) What I was taught as a Roman Catholic is that both of His parents had no sin - thus He could not have "inherited" it (I got the impression the RCC
believes sin is in our DNA). Mary was born without sin and thus had no sin (yet she sinned, the RCC
says..... go figure, never made any sense to me). Of course, the main problem with this THEORY is that it just bumps the question back a generation.... the question I had (even when I was like 9 years old!) is: if Jesus had to have two sinless parents to be sinless, then obviously Mary had to have two sinless parents to be sinless... and if you trace that back, it means NO ONE has sin (and the Bible lies - as does the morning newspaper).
2) Jesus is sinless by virtue of His divine nature. In the "Communication of Attributes," the Divinity of Jesus "communicates" with the humanity of Jesus - divine attributes being embraced by the human nature. This is why He could do miracles, how He knew stuff, why He could seem to walk through walls, why He could die for us and rise from the dead. His sinless divinity "communicated" that attribute to His humanity so that in both natures, he is sinless. I like this, but it is THEORY; as far as I know, no denomination teaches this as fact.
It is true that Jesus "took on" OUR sinfulness on the Cross.... but He did not take on our nature. He died for OUR sins - not His own. Obviously, there's MYSTERY here, too - how He "took on" something without in any sense BEING such.