Eventide
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being mortal is not sin.
It's the consequence of sin, DEATH... which was pronounced upon Adam after his transgression. Romans 5 imo covers this in detail.
You cannot say human without also either stating or implying our mortal state of that nature. We are also born mortal, but without sin.
And once again, our mortality (condemnation in the first Adam) was pronounced by God.. after Adam's transgression, and DEATH has passed upon ALL MEN (in the first Adam) since..
We are born innocent which is why and how Christ could be born of the Virgin Mary. One must actually sin and Christ also had the capability sin, but did not.[ If He did not have the ability to sin, then there is no benefit to man that Christ could have kept the law perfectly. This is why He can command us not to sin, to curb sin, to be perfect as He is perfect.
Complete disagreement here.. The Lord Jesus Christ was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit of God within the virgin Mary.. after she believed the message from above.. nothing at all to do with the first Adam's seed...
And the Lord Jesus Christ's DIVINE nature can not sin... it's completely out of the question.. because of the very fact that He cannot be deceived or disobedient to His own nature.. the very examples within the scriptures prove to us that GOD cannot be tempted with evil.. and it's explicitly stated that GOD can NOT be tempted by evil... even though He was tempted.. the fact remains that He can not be tempted, iow it's futile..
Having a sin nature is a common protestant statement because it is based on the erroneous concept of Original Sin. Our mortal nature makes us sinful, but we do not have a sin nature. It would be impossible to save us from sin ,or we could never stop or not sin if one had a sin nature. From scriptures standpoint and theologically the concept is quite incorrect.
Then by all means share what it means to you that the FLESH always wars against the SPIRIT, and that they are contrary to one another..?