Characteristics of the Human Nature of Jesus Before and After Adam's Fall
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1
CHAPTER II: . UNFALLEN VIEWPOINT OF THE HUMANITY OF JESUS4
The Human Nature of Jesus and the Meaning of Separated from Sinners9
CHAPTER III: A SCHOLARLY VIEWPOINT OF THE FALLEN HUMANITY OF JESUS11
IV. THE UNIQUENESS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE HUMAN NATURE OF JESUS15
V. CONCLUSION29
BIBLIOGRAPHY34
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
The Bible distinguishes between two religions: the religion of God, which is accomplished salvation, and the religion of man, in which people establish a kind of selection that they think is right and best to try to comply. In this sense, the Bible, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Taoism, Confucianism - all one and the same group. That is, each of these religions is a system of conduct which the self-righteous people adhere to in order to justify their own sins. That's why the world is against the Bible and the Bible is opposed to peace. If there is something quite obvious the Bible make it clear, is the fact that man is saved by grace through faith, and not “by works, lest anyone should boast” (Efes.2 9) and that “he saved us,” not by our works of righteousness , “but according to his mercy” (Titus 3:5).
So, it is true that Jesus was not a hybrid half-God and half man. He was true God and true man, without mixing the two natures. Both the nature of the Saviour were in any respect are separate and distinct. Human nature - the son of Mary, the seed of David, the Son of Man was sinless. None of the books about Jesus Christ, written at the time by any who knew or had seen him for a witness, there was no case in which It could be to blame, in fact, in a single sin. Now, it is true that He was accused. They called him a drunkard and a glutton, but it is also true that He was called Prince of the devils, Beelzebub, and some other obscene nicknames, none of which was not true. The human nature of Jesus' whole, in fact, like ours. This is a distinct human phenomenon. He was the perfect man. He was both perfect and normal. It was as it should be a man.
But the Lord Jesus Christ was unique because of His sinless, absolutely spotless life. Not one person on this earth could not say so, but Him. If he said this, but it was not the case, then he - a liar. So, choose a side and throw clods of dirt. That you can not avoid. He asserted the sinlessness and His recordings are sinless. By asking if, Jesus is not ...