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To: Mrs. Don-o
do you believe that Jesus had a defective, fallen human nature?

I think Jesus took on a humanity of being as much as he could be tempted. Why would Satan bother, otherwise?

351 posted on 12/08/2006 2:21:13 PM PST by paulat (about)
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To: paulat
"I think Jesus took on a humanity of being as much as he could be tempted. Why would Satan bother, otherwise?"

True. But even a human being with an un-fallen nature --- I'm thinking, Adam and Eve in Paradise before the Fall --- could be tempted.

So let me re-phrase the question: do you think Jesus' human nature was that of Adam and Eve in Paradise before the Fall, in other words, pure and perfect in a creaturely sense --or-- did He have, like the rest of us, a degraded human nature as a result of the inherited consequences of sin, which darkened the human intellect, weakened our will, and deranged our appetites?

356 posted on 12/08/2006 3:06:43 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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