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NASB | John 1:14 ¶ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:14 ¶ And the Word (Christ) became flesh, and lived among us; and we [actually] saw His glory, glory as belongs to the [One and] only begotten Son of the Father, [the Son who is truly unique, the only One of His kind, who is] full of grace and truth (absolutely free of deception). [Is 40:5] |
Subject: Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? |
Bible Note: Thanks Doc, I had got an answer that dove tails with this one today in school from my pastor... I wanted a second opinion from in here, glad you caught this one and gave me excellent posts, now I know what that faulty theory is called. Another very nice professor was teaching about the hyostatic nature of Christ and was saying that Jesus diminished His powers of being God to take on humanity and took on the Holy Spirit to do the works of God as the Christ. My pastor taught me today before class about the Doctrine of the Impecability of Christ and said that what I had been taught was incorrect because it is in direct contradiciton to this very important doctrine which would disallow for the posibility that Jesus as fully human could ever have the ability to choose to sin, while choosing not to, but indeed had the inability to sin, even though tempted to sin, and having the inability to sin, did not sin. The ability to choose to sin implies that there is a possibility that Jesus as fully God and fully human could have stopped being God, or could have diminished characteristicis of being God, and been able to actually sin as a choice. But Jesus as God was always incapable of sinning as He is God, even though he put on the flesh. Jesus may choose not to use His powers in full capacity, but He may never have the possbility of committing sin, or He is not God. This is what I was looking for Doc, the content of all three posts, fits the context of my questions on this subject. Thank you very much, good to hear from you after so long, Much Christian love to you my brother in Christ, Tam Tam |