How can God justify the ungodly and still maintain His integrity to His law?
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The law requires mankind to die because they are sinners. Jesus as God wasn't a sinner, but the humanity He assumed for about 33 years from Mary's womb was a condemned humanity because it was indwelt with iniquity. Iniquity is a condition, not transgression. Therefore we can't be guilty of our condition. However, we are unfit for heaven because of our condition. Hence, we stand condemned because we share Adam's fallen life. There's a difference.
It's called the gospel. Christ as God assumed our life. In that life He lived a perfect life, but because that life was polluted with iniquity, that life had to die forever. That's the 2nd death.
No, my glorified life substance is "in Christ Jesus in the heavenly places" now. See Eph 2:6 & Col 1:13,14 It is this sinless, glorified life that Christ, as our High Priest, holds up before God and His law in the most holy place.
"In Christ" we are literally perfect. As a child of Adam here on earth I am fallen. I am righteous by faith, but at the 2nd coming I will be righteous as God is righteous for I "will be changed"...
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[SIZE=+1] Jesus Christ at the Incarnation
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Two Distinct, Opposite Natures United in One Person
In order for Christ to legally qualify to be our substitute and representative, His divinity had to be united to our corporate fallen humanity that needed redeeming. It is in the incarnation that these two distinct opposite natures were united together in one person and Christ became the second Adam. This is the in Christ motif, the central theme of Paul’s theology [1 Corinthians 1:30].
The Paradox
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[TD="align: center"]AS GOD HE WAS:[/TD]
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[TD="align: center"]AS MAN HE WAS MADE:[/TD]
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[*=center]Son of God [Lk.1:35]
[*=center]Self-Existing [Jn. 1:4]
[*=center]Spirit [Jn. 4:24]
[*=center]Equal with God [Phil. 2:6]
[*=center]Sinless [2 Cor. 5:21]
[*=center]Independent [Jn. 10:18]
[*=center]Immortal [1 Tim. 1:17]
[*=center]Lawgiver [Ja. 4:12]
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[*=center]Son of Man [Lk. 19:10]
[*=center]Of a Woman [Gal. 4:4]
[*=center]Flesh [Jn. 1:14]
[*=center]A Slave of God [Phil. 2:7]
[*=center]Sin [2 Cor. 5:21]
[*=center]Dependent [Jn. 5:19,30]
[*=center]Mortal [Heb. 2:14,15]
[*=center]Under Law [Gal. 4:4]
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Taken from the site of E.H. “Jack” Sequeira, a Seventh Day Adventist ministry.
The Two Became One: Jesus Christ at the Incarnation
The Two Became One: Jesus Christ at the Incarnation
Good video. False labeling is a form of self justification as it seems, as I have spent a lot of time reading through posts and threads in the last few days. There are two ditches on either side of the straight and narrow path. One ditch is called liberalism, and the other ditch is called legalism. The ditches will not lead to the strait gate.