Did Jesus Have an Advantage over Pre-Fall Adam During the Incarnation?

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obertarti

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PaulThomson said:
As I have mentioned before, one major factor in Jesus having no advantage over us is that Jesus' successfully living a sinless life after many temptations proves that our sin was not necessary. There was no design flaw in Adam and his descendants that made sin inevitable
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He crucified Himself to the world like every one should do

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"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world
 
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ewq1938 said:
That isn't true. His advantages were being the only begotten Son of God, and being God the Son and knowing these things not to mention having many prophecies devoted to him and what he would do and knowing about those as well.
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Receiving body of sin taking away any advantage
 
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Jesus could not act in His own right as God. This is the very thing Satan was trying to get Jesus to do during the Temptations. We do not have the power and/or authority to turn stones into bread or command angels or rule the world, but Jesus as God does and can. None of those things are wrong for the Son of God to do except when He was to act as a man only ie. during the Incarnation. If He did give in to any one of those temptations in His humanity, He would have been disqualified to act on our behalf on the Cross. He was not allowed to cheat by using His own power and/or authority to act. Ergo, He did not have an advantage because He is the Son of God.
 
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