He did not limit Himself from coming to this earth, as a Human.A God with limitations is not God.
Adam was direct of God, if he remained in grace and never sinned, how long do you think he would have lived?Sin isn't the cause of physical death. Sin causes the spiritual death. Being mortal causes the physical death.
Philippians 2 reads that Jesus emptied Himself of use of His equality with God. Like a sleep. Jesus surpassed all His tests like a humble person.Cannot God choose to Self-limit Himself?
Philippians 2 reads that Jesus emptied Himself of use of His equality with God. Like a sleep. Jesus surpassed all His tests like a humble person.
Jesus came in order to reach us and personally share with us, because He is a Person of God who so loves us. Also, He did this in order to obey and please our Heavenly Father. This shows how unconceited God is. Jesus left Heaven itself, in order to come here for us. And Jesus died in order to reach us in our sin and bring us to God.the second person is a polarized unity. humanity is not cut off from God and God is not cut off from humanity.
There is religious culture which makes a point only of talking about how God knows all, is all-powerful, and is present everywhere . . . oh yes, and all-seeing and all-recording for judgment > but these characteristics can be things which impress people of ego, of this world, people who are into control and using people. Ones do not make a point of talking about how God is all-loving, and about family caring and sharing as His children while we are personally caring for any and all people. They make God seem distant and not interested in personally sharing with His own children.to think of God in terms of power is kind of more in line with the way satan thinks of reality.
humble > another characteristic of God, which ones never mentionPhilippians 2 reads that Jesus emptied Himself of use of His equality with God. Like a sleep. Jesus surpassed all His tests like a humble person.
We have to remember Jesus was God and could not deny Himself or lie or actually in Spirit, die. Although in John 6, He seems to mislead His brothers about the feast, and of course Jesus who knew no sin was made sin, then overcame it and minutes later left His body engaged with all the power of death. To observers, He died. And Jesus refused to turn the stone to bread, for His bodily appetite and instead followed His Spirit and Father.I would interpret that to mean that He set aside His prerogative to function as who He is, God, in order to limit Himself to function as a man.
Jesus was not limited; even while He was so suffering, Jesus was loving; and while Jesus was dead, Jesus defeated Satan and any and all sin and evil.I would interpret that to mean that He set aside His prerogative to function as who He is, God, in order to limit Himself to function as a man.
Jesus was not limited; even while He was so suffering, Jesus was loving; and while Jesus was dead, Jesus defeated Satan and any and all sin and evil.
So we are guaranteed, with Jesus.
Part of why He had to die, then, was to establish proof for us, of how we can count on Jesus.
We have to remember Jesus was God and could not deny Himself or lie or actually in Spirit, die. Although in John 6, He seems to mislead His brothers about the feast, and of course Jesus who knew no sin was made sin, then overcame it and minutes later left His body engaged with all the power of death. To observers, He died. And Jesus refused to turn the stone to bread, for His bodily appetite and instead followed His Spirit and Father.
Adam was direct of God, if he remained in grace and never sinned, how long do you think he would have lived?
Death came through sin, remember the words of the apostle Paul. Through one man death reigned. Jesus is the second Adam, who gives life.
Jesus died. He didn't just appear to die, He really died.
Specifically his body died, that being the first death. That's what happens when any human dies. What does not die as part of the first death is death of spirit or soul.
He would have aged and died at some point unless he ate from the tree of life.
Spiritual death comes from sin, not physical death. Christ came to save us from spiritual death not from physical death.
Did Jesus rise from death physically or not?
He would have aged and died at some point unless he ate from the tree of life.
Spiritual death comes from sin, not physical death. Christ came to save us from spiritual death not from physical death.
Of course.
What does this have to do with Adam dying physically because he was mortal not because he sinned?