Did Jesus inherit sinful flesh nature?

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Jesus took Adams human nature after the fall so He was born with all the damage done to mans nature during that time. But Jesus did not inherit sinful tendencies from Adam, that is, Jesus did not have a tendency to sin. Christ inherited our physical weaknesses, for example, Christ had to sleep when he got tired. He had to eat when he got hungry and drink when he got thirsty. He inherited our physical limitations but not our sinful inclinations.

Physically, Christ was like us, feeling pain, frail, weak, prone to get sick if we dont take care of our bodies, and under the consequences of aging and the inherent traits of genetics. But morally, Christ could be tested by temptation as scripture shows us but did not have our ungodly desires or sinful inclinations. Jesus' mental human nature (tendency toward sin) was that of the unfallen Adam and his physical human nature (physical body) was that after the fall of Adam." and at the same time why it makes it hard to understand. What makes Jesus equal (having no advantage over other human beings), is that he had all the damage done by sin (Adam’s human nature after the fall), but he had what Peter calls 'the Mind of Christ' which was what Adam was given to begin with and Paul speaks of, that man can have and become dead to sin. Thus Christ has no advantage in overcoming sin as through the power of the Holy Spirit we also can have the 'Mind of Christ'.

Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 

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In eastern orthodoxy, the body is NOT inherently sinful, neither is the forbidden fruit which contains the knowledge of good and evil - not Pandora's box; Eve's sin was a conscious choice against God's instruction, Adam's sin was going along with that conscious choice, even though he knew better. They deliberately and willingly turned away from God, that's the real Fall of humanity, also the literal meaning of sin - missing the mark, either intentionally or unintentionally, blaming "fleshly nature" and the forbidden fruit is just an excuse. This is the excuse Jesus ridiculed: "IF your right hand causes you to sin ..." "IF your right eye causes you to sin ..." When God became flesh and dwelt among us, the flesh was sancified through the incarnation, it became a temple of the Holy Spirit. It was gnosticism philosophy that denigrates the physical, practical and tangible and praises the spiritual, theoratical and abstract, that's the philosophy of the Nicolaitans that's still prevailing in perhaps most churches, and it's unbiblical.

Nonetheless, sin entered the world through Adam as he was banished from Eden, and sin ever increases from there on, as mankind's connection with God was cut off. We say it all the time that man was made in the image of God, but another important fact that's rarely mentioned is that from Seth and there on, mankind was no longer directly made in the image of God, but in the image of Adam, which means everybody is a copy of the original. Jesus, however, was born of the Holy Spirit, he was not another copy in the likeness of Adam, but another image in the likeness of God, that's why he's called the second Adam.

This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. (Gen. 5:1-3)