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A: If Jesus had only been an ordinary man like everyone else who ever lived, then you’d be right — He, too would have been a sinner. No matter who we are, we all — without exception — commit sin and break God’s law. As the Bible says, “There is no one who is righteous, not even one” (Romans 3:10). But Jesus wasn’t only a man.
Feb 17, 2014 · Jesus is the only human who “did not know sin.”. He never sinned, and both he and his closest followers, Peter and John, explicitly attested to this holiness (John 8:46; 1 Pet. 2:22; 1 John 3:5). Yet God made him “to be sin.”. Paul’s language is careful. He did not say Jesus became a sinner, which would be untrue.
- Kendell Easley
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- What Is The Righteousness of God?
- Did Jesus Die For The Sins of The World?
I believe that to truly understand this passage we need to understand the surrounding context. Otherwise, we can easily make this verse say something other than what Paul intended. In verses 11-15 of this chapter, Paul expressed his motivation for sharing the Gospelof Christ. He said that “Christ’s love compels him.” Why? Because he was convinced t...
As the above discussion has shown, 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 is about reconciliation. Specifically what God has done to reconcile a fallen humanity to himself. And 2 Corinthians 5:21is really the key verse in this discussion of reconciliation. Here, Paul says that “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteo...
1 Peter 2:22: "He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth." Hebrews 4:15: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin." 1 John 3:5: "You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin." John 3:16-17: "...
Isaiah tells us that “all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). And Paul quotes Psalm 14:3 to say that there is no one who is righteous (Romans 3:10). All the righteousness that humans are capable of falls short of the righteousness that God demands. But the result of Jesus being made sin was “that in him we might become the right...
But this discussion on the atonement raises a question that is often discussed and debated. Christ was made sin for us. But who is the “us” that Paul refers to here? Did Jesus die for the sins of the whole world? Or only for the sins of some? The context of this passage, as mentioned above, concerns reconciliation. Paul expressed that God was recon...
Apr 1, 2022 · Jesus is God, and did not cease to be God, even when He lived on earth. He even got in trouble with the religious leaders when He said, “I and the Father are one,” to which the Jews responded, “...you, being a man, make yourself God” (John 10:30, 33b). While He had human frailty, Jesus still maintained His connection to the Father and ...
Oct 8, 2010 · Paul thus exults that “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8; see also Gal. 3:13; 1 Tim. 2:6; Heb. 2:9). Jesus “gave Himself for us to redeem us” (Titus 2:14), “the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God” (1 Pet. 3:18; see also 2:21). The idea of ...
Adam sinned; Jesus did not. Satan did everything in his power to corrupt Jesus and tempt him to sin. That would have been an exercise in futility had he been trying to tempt a divine person to sin. Satan was not trying to get God to sin. He was trying to get the human nature of Christ to sin, so that he would not be qualified to be the Savior.
In that sense, if Jesus died for everybody, then for those unbelievers who will be punished on the day of judgment, that sin is being punished twice. It was punished once in Jesus, and now it’s being punished again in the sinner’s life, which is double jeopardy. HAMILTON: Undergirding the work of Christ is the holy concurrence of the Triune ...
