Question for Baptists/Anabaptists

[P_G]

Hey

While your at writing here Pastor George, can you explain 1 Cor 11:10? What does that mean 'because of the angels'? I really can't figure that out at all.

This soley had to do with propriety in worship. It would have been unseemly for
a Jewish woman to go to synagouge with an uncovered head. Still is! It is a call for modesty before the presence of celestial beings who saw what was going on. They had taken TOO MUCH freedom in the L-rd Y'shua!

Lets put it in todays terms
Women you should not wear tight jeans and belly shirts to church neither way short skirts that would lead you brothers eye to you. Rather dress plainly and conservatively so as to not draw attention to yourselves. In G-d's house let us all have full attention on the L-rd.

Blessings

Pastor George

 

[Iollain]

Thank you Pastor George, i've been puzzling for days about this verse!!

 

[theseed]

He has both a human and a divine nature (2 natures, 1 person). Human nature has free will, and so it seems that Christ very well could have chosen to sin. The devil tempted him many times. If Christ did not have this choice, his life on earth would've been a pre-orchestrated game - he would have been a puppet of the Father, and we know this isn't true.

I certainly understand what you're trying to say here, Kayanne, but it doesn't seem to capture the reality of the whole situation. Or is this a difference between Catholic & Baptist theology?

No, your right.

 

[Athanasian Creed]

This is a very enlightening thread. I've been thinking, are the sins from the fathers because Adam knew he was sinning and Eve was fooled?
1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Very good And yes, you are correct !

When it is said that "Adam was not deceived," it is not meant that when he partook actually of the fruit he was under no deception, but that he was not deceived by the serpent; he was not first deceived, or first in the transgression. The woman should remember that sin began with her, and she should therefore be willing to occupy an humble and subordinate situation.

Was not deceived; by the serpent in the first transgression. The serpent first assailed the woman, as being most open to his arts, and having deceived her, he made use of her to persuade her husband. Compare the words of the woman, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;" and the words of God to the man, "Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten," Ge 3:13,17. The headship was given to the man, not to the woman. And as a result of the headship of man, the sins of the father's is passed down to his offspring.


Ray

 

[Propadeutic]

My short answer to the original post:

As a choosing Person, Christ had the natural ability to sin (i.e., He made genuine choices and was able to turn the stones to bread if He chose to).
However, because of His nature as God, he was morally unable to sin (i.e., Under no circumstances would he ever have turned the stones to bread if it would be sinful to do so.)
Christ took upon Himself true human nature (what Adam had at his creation), but not human depravity, because human depravity entails the moral inability not to sin, the very opposite of God's character.
The Bible does not specify by what means Christ was preserved from being conceived in sin (Psa. 51:5), but it seems to me that the fact that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:20) had something to do with it.