Did Jesus Have an Advantage over Pre-Fall Adam During the Incarnation?
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Nope. Jesus said He would raise His body from the slab in the tomb ("this temple" = "His body"). He did not say he would raise His own soul out of hades.
He did say he had authority (was authorised) to lay His soul/life down, and had authority (was authorised) to receive it back..
Nowhere does it say He raised Himself from the dead.
Becoming a man was very Godlike...more sarcasm.
The whole point of becoming like us was so He could represent us. As the second Adam, He would have been subject to dependency on the Father.
I don't need help with any of that.
I'm just stating that Jesus laid down all those privileges so He can show us how to live godly lives in the power of the Holy Spirit. That way, we can't say, "But Jesus! I can't possible do any of the things you've done because I'm just a mere human being and you're God".
I think some people don't want to acknowledge that because they don't want to face the responsibility we have of abiding in the Holy Spirit.
What if part of the point of becoming human was product testing? What of God wanted to make sure He had justly condemned Adam, by becoming just like Adam, with the same limitations and challenges, to see whether Adam could have not failed, had Adam wanted not to fail.
1) If you didn't you wouldn't suffer in your present state of confusion
2) All those privileges? How many is all?
3) Jesus never had any problem with living a godly life. But Paul and Peter certainly did.
I think God already knew He acted justly. It's part of the nature of God to be just.
Except the part of resurrecting Himself. He did that all on His own. And of course being unkillable. That was just part of His omnipotent divine nature.
Whether Jesus restrained or relinquished His pre-incarnate omnipotence is moot. The point is that Jesus did not need to be omnipotent to do any of the things He did during His life. The Father and Holy Spirit were in Him and working through Him during His life. So any miracle He did could quite readily have been performed by either of those two.
If you don't think that Jesus resurrected Himself from the dead, then you are in a far sorrier state than I had hitherto believed.
That is some truly devastating ignorance.
Justice must not only be done, but must be SEEN TO BE DONE. No one can argue that they were unable to do right ,if Jesus was like us in every way and did right.
1) On the contrary your salvation depends upon it.
2) Except the part of raising Himself from the dead. After He was dead. Because it would take an infinite and omnipotent God to resurrect an infinite and omnipotent God.
BTW........when Jesus says that no one knows the Father except the Son, Jesus is declaring Himself to be infinite God. Because only infinite God can fully and in totality know the infinite God.
Which is exactly what Jesus is saying there.