justchristian said:So then you hold Christ was only able to live without sin because of his divinity?
This is the theological issue known as the impeccability of Christ. Jesus was God-Man. We do not know exhaustively how His divine and human natures interacted. Hebrews does say He was tempted, yet without sin. If it was physically impossible for Him to sin, the temptation would be illusory. Since He was the Son of Man, He had will, intellect, and emotions. It seems to me that He could sin, but He did not. The end result is the same. He was sinless and perfect. He lived up to the light He had and purposed to do the Father's will. If He was not incarnate and subject to temptation, He could not sin. In the body, He could have sinned, but simply chose not to in the power of the Spirit. He fully obeyed the Father and His Law in thought, motive, word, deed. He alone is the sinless Son of God. It was not just a matter that He was born of the Spirit (virgin conception). His mother was human. This is another argument against 'original sin'. Logically, Jesus would have a so-called sin nature being born of a woman. We are not born with a sin nature either, but we all do sin and fall short of the glory of God.
Sin is volitional. Jesus had libertarian free will. He could have sinned, but He did not sin!
http://members.citynet.net/morton/sinned.htm
(re: impeccability of Christ...I do not know about this author..looks like he is KJV only, unfortunately)
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