1 Cor
15:42.What issues are you most dogmatic about?
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "...[S]ound theology."
How is
Jesus
different
from men
born in
Adam?
1 Cor
15:42.
"He is
God, the
God-Man,
one
person
with two
natures.
He never
sinned,
unlike
the rest
of us
(sin is
moral/volitional,
not
metaphysical/substance)."
Why
didn't
he sin?
Heb
4:15.
If you
are
right--that
Jesus
could
have
sinned--then
he's no
great
high
priest.
For
such a
High
Priest
was
fitting
for us,
rwho
is holy,
harmless,
undefiled,
separate
from
sinners,
sand
has
become
higher
than the
heavens;
who does
not need
daily,
as those
high
priests,
to offer
up
sacrifices,
first
for His
town
sins and
then for
the
people’s,
for this
He did
once for
all when
He
offered
up
Himself.
For the
law
appoints
as high
priests
men who
have
weakness,
but the
word of
the
oath,
which
came
after
the law,
appoints
the Son
who has
been
perfected
forever.
r [2
Cor.
5:21];
Heb.
4:15
9
innocent
s Eph.
1:20
t Lev.
9:7;
16:6;
Heb. 5:3The
New King
James
Version.
Nashville
: Thomas
Nelson,
1982, S.
Heb
7:26-28
7:26–28
"Christ’s
divine
and holy
character
is yet
another
proof of
the
superiority
of His
priesthood..."
Heb 7:26
"Only
God is
inherently
righteous
(Deut.
32:4;
Job 9:2;
Pss.
11:7;
116:5;
John
17:25;
Rom.
3:10; 1
John
2:1;
Rev.
16:5),
and man
falls
woefully
short of
the
divine
standard
of moral
perfection
(3:23;
Matt.
5:48).
But the
gospel
reveals
that on
the
basis of
faith—and
faith
alone—God
will
impute
His
righteousness
to
ungodly
sinners
(see
notes on
3:21–24;
4:5; 2
Cor.
5:21;
Phil.
3:8, 9).
from
faith to
faith..."
Ro 1:17
"3:21–5:21
Having
conclusively
proved
the
universal
sinfulness
of man
and his
need for
righteousness
(1:18–3:20),
Paul
develops
the
theme he
introduced
in 1:17,
i.e.,
God has
graciously
provided
a
righteousness
that
comes
from Him
on the
basis of
faith
alone
(3:21–5:21)."
MacArthur,
John Jr:
The
MacArthur
Study
Bible.
electronic
ed.
Nashville
: Word
Pub.,
1997,
c1997,
S. Ro
3:21
"Will not is not cannot....Your view could be seen as denying the humanity and personhood of Christ (will, intellect, emotions)."
What will, intellect, or emotion of Jesus could have sinned?
"My view does not compromise His Deity."
Your view compromises his nature (Heb 7:26).
"Listen to Scripture (sin is volitional, not metaphysical), not philosophical Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm, MacArthur (who is right about some things and dead wrong about other things)."
Strawman.
I've
told you
repeatedly
that I
reject
Augustine,
Aquinas,
etc.
"Your views are traditional and not in a vacuum (influenced by church history)."
Are your
views
influenced
by
church
history?
You will
now
discuss
the view
without
use of a
strawman
or
red
herring
fallacy?
"This is
not a
proof
text for
or
against
the
impeccability
of
Christ."
What
part of
Jesus
could
have
sinned.
See:
Could
Jesus
have
sinned (peccability
or
impeccability)?
"Be careful that your view does not reduce Jesus to an impersonal automaton/sock puppet."
Red
herring.
"Is it more praiseworthy to never choose to sin than to be a rock that cannot sin?"
Red
herring.
We know
he chose
not to
sin.
The
question
is could
he have
sinned?
Explain
the part
of his
character
that
could
have
sinned?
An
imperfect
high
priest
cannot
save
(Heb
5:1-3).
What
issues
are you
most
dogmatic
about?