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Some of you seem to be getting hooked-up on the word, "earned."
Have I made a correct assumption? If so, then I submit that it seems to come two ways:
One, that He completed His task here successfully, and earned the right to represent us by being the Firstborn, resurrected of God.
And, two, that He earned Immortality for us.
We already know that He never claimed to do anything except what He saw the Father doing. So that certainly seems to imply that He was not operating freely as the omnipotent God, walking around with some flesh hanging on His All-Powerful energy.
Is there anyone here willing to deny that He divested Himself of His previous powers to actually BECOME a man? Or do you feel He just LOOKED like a man, and retained all of His powers? He even said on the cross that He wouldn't just blink His eye or wave His hand to destroy those people, but rather, as the man He still was, He would actually have to call for an army of Angels to do that for Him.
Have I made a correct assumption? If so, then I submit that it seems to come two ways:
One, that He completed His task here successfully, and earned the right to represent us by being the Firstborn, resurrected of God.
And, two, that He earned Immortality for us.
We already know that He never claimed to do anything except what He saw the Father doing. So that certainly seems to imply that He was not operating freely as the omnipotent God, walking around with some flesh hanging on His All-Powerful energy.
Is there anyone here willing to deny that He divested Himself of His previous powers to actually BECOME a man? Or do you feel He just LOOKED like a man, and retained all of His powers? He even said on the cross that He wouldn't just blink His eye or wave His hand to destroy those people, but rather, as the man He still was, He would actually have to call for an army of Angels to do that for Him.
scripture teaches He became fully man...but without sin
the op is stating Jesus inherited sinful flesh
Jesus also said He did nothing apart from the Father
He also said that if we have seen Him, we have seen the Father
the question here is whether or not Jesus was not fully God as John indicates He was
the statement made by the op and agreed to by beyond, is not found in the Bible
opinions on the very nature of Christ which run counter scripture are heretical
beyond makes similar statements in other threads and the leaves
its odd